Bannon Tells MSNBC’s John Heilemann He ‘Hasn’t Worked Hard Enough’ To Be Jailed In Second Trump Term — Then Lists Who Has

Former Trump campaign manager and White House advisor Steve Bannon reacted on Tuesday to MSNBC guest host John Heilemann covering Bannon’s threats to use the power of government to jail critics should Trump return to the White House.

“This is justice. It’s not vengeance. It’s not retribution. It’s none of that. And no, John Heilemann, you’re one of the great wasted talents out there. You haven’t worked hard enough to make the list,” Bannon said on his far-right War Room podcast.

“The people that will be on the list know who they are, know who they are. You see McCabe wetting himself. Former government officials, the 51, traitors that tried to gun deck the, the laptop from hell,” Bannon continued referencing the former deputy director of the FBI and the national security officials who warned Hunter Biden’s laptop had all the hallmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign. The Russians successfully used a similar tactic in 2017, hacking the emails of France’s Macron and then releasing them to the public — having included several doctored emails.

Bannon went on to name who Trump would put in jail as president, “Certain members of media like Andrew Weissman that have worked hand-in-glove with the Justice Department. It’s just all going to do Justice Department. It’s going to go through the receipts, which every government bureaucrat, everybody in the government payroll, got to have their text messages and have to turn over all of their emails. It’s just of what they did in official business. So if you didn’t do anything, don’t worry about it. Now, if you like McCabe and you’re on TV every night, wetting yourself, you should be concerned about it. And here’s what we’re not going to allow. What happened in the first term to happen in the second term. We’re not going to allow the deep state, the Pretorian Guard, to determine what President Trump’s going to do.”

Bannon also said Trump’s second administration will put current Attorney General Merrick Garland in prison. Bannon himself is set to report to jail early next month to begin his four-month sentence for contempt of Congress.

“The People That Will Be On The List Know Who They Are”: Steve Bannon Promises To Deliver Justice To The Administrative State pic.twitter.com/D3J263F91L

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