Steve Bannon Accuses Trump WH Officials of Leaking to MS NOW: ‘The Biggest Enemy’

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Former Trump White House advisor turned MAGA-world podcaster Steve Bannon accused Trump administration officials of leaking details about President Donald Trump’s Thursday night national address to MS NOW, which Bannon still calls “MSNBC.”

Longtime pro-MAGA writer John Solomon, who is working as “special government employee” in the Trump administration, spoke to Bannon on Wednesday about Trump’s upcoming announcement, which will reportedly focus on repeating his baseless claims of election fraud in 2020. Reports have said Trump will go so far as to call Georgia Sens. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) and Raphael Warnock (D-GA) illegitimate.

While discussing the claims in the media about Trump’s remarks, Bannon fumed, “But you can tell with MSNBC, let’s be blunt — senior members of the Trump White House — and MSNBC has already framed this.”

“They’ve been given this 72 hours in advance. They’ve framed this now. It’s disinformation, it’s lies. You see, Vaughn Hillyard wrote… all of them are already saying — not even seeing the evidence, not even seeing what has come up — ‘it’s lies, it’s disinformation.’”

“AOC is begging channels from around the country not to take it. Yet senior White House officials are quoted by the one network that’s the biggest enemy to the President of the United States, and has stirred up a lot of the hate and discontent that led to the attempted assassination attempts on him — like in Butler, Pennsylvania. They continue to stir it up, and they are actively trying to stop the program that you have been brought in for a task force, with Bill Pulte,” Bannon continued, concluding:

I’ve never seen anything like it, quite frankly, and I think there needs to be a major house-cleaning after Thursday.

Vaughn Hillyard did indeed report for MS NOW on Tuesday, “President Donald Trump is preparing to deliver a primetime speech that will focus on voting machine security and alleged efforts by foreign nations to influence U.S. elections, two senior administration officials told MS NOW. The text of the speech is not final, but the president is also expected to release declassified intelligence documents on both subjects.”

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told MS NOW for the report, “As usual, anonymous sources are speculating about what President Trump will say during his speech on Thursday evening. The truth is, nobody knows yet what President Trump will ultimately say, which is why everyone should tune in.”

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