Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said President-elect Donald Trump “broke” the tech oligarchs that for years had worked to censor him and the MAGA movement.
In an interview Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Bannon explained that the tech leaders like Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos have capitulated to the incoming president, evidenced by their willingness to lift censorship restrictions and their planned attendance at Trump’s inauguration Monday.
“They’re there as supplicants. They’re not there as the oligarchs,” Bannon said. “We had no power. President Trump was out. And when I mean ‘out,’ the political class in the Republican Party and Fox News turned against him, were going to make him a non-person.”
Bannon: President Trump broke the oligarchs—they surrendered, saying, “We’ll remove all constraints.” It’s like September 1945 on the USS Missouri, with Trump as Douglas MacArthur presiding over their official surrender. Powerful.
— Bannon’s WarRoom (@Bannons_WarRoom) January 19, 2025
—Steve Bannon to @jonkarl on This Week 1/19/25 pic.twitter.com/HkXslohngw
“But as soon as Zuckerberg said, ‘I’ve been invited and I’m going,’ the floodgates opened up and they were all knocking trying to be supplicants.”
“So, I look at this and I think most people in our movement look at this as President Trump broke the oligarchs,” Bannon continued. “He broke them, and they surrendered. They came, they said, ‘Oh, we’ll take off any constraints on him.’ No more checking.”
Bannon added their attendance of Trump’s inauguration is a “powerful” reminder that the Big Tech leaders have “officially surrendered.”
But Bannon also expressed his view that despite the fact Zuckerberg is attending the inauguration, he shouldn’t be trusted because he’s a “criminal” for his actions surrounding the 2020 election where he injected hundreds of millions of dollars into election departments and mail-in voting initiatives in key swing states amid the COVID plandemic.
“I think Mark Zuckerberg is a criminal. I think in a properly adjudicated- for 2020, for the ‘Zuckerbucks,'” Bannon said.
Bannon: I think Zuckerberg is a criminal—an adjudicated criminal if properly tried—for the 2020 election and the use of Zuckerbucks. That guy will flip on Trump and on us in a second. When it’s convenient for him, he will flip.
— Bannon’s WarRoom (@Bannons_WarRoom) January 19, 2025
—Steve Bannon to @jonkarl on This Week 1/19/25 pic.twitter.com/KVtnrxoBYj
“I want to see that in a systematic adjudication, either in the House, or I think better with a grand jury and a special prosecutor to go through 2020 to find-“
Host Jon Karl cut in, “You want the Justice Department under Trump to prosecute Mark Zuckerberg.”
“I didn’t say that,” Bannon retorted. “What I want is the House to do it first, but if they’re not prepared to do it, a special counsel set up that looks at the 2020 election and looks at it seriously and adjudicates it. If there’s nothing there, there’s nothing there.”
Bannon reiterated that Zuckerberg cannot be trusted despite his attempt to re-brand himself as a conservative-friendly “bro” in the wake of Trump’s election victory in November.
“That guy will flip on President Trump and he’ll flip on us in a second. When it’s convenient for him, he will flip,” Bannon said.
Watch the full interview:
ABC News’ Jonathan Karl interviews former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon on “This Week.” https://t.co/y46DCHzJyp
— Grace Chong, MBI (@gc22gc) January 19, 2025
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