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Steve Bannon Vows Investigations and Court Martial in Second Trump Term

On November 16, Steve Bannon said that the Trump administration should launch investigations against political opponents and impanel a court martial. 

Bannon is an influential figure in Trump world. He served as chief executive of Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, and as his chief strategist and senior counselor in 2017. Bannon made the remarks during an interview with Sean Spicer, former Trump White House Press Secretary and Communications Director in 2017. 

When asked about Trump's pledge to exact retribution on his political opponents, Bannon said that it was not retribution, but “justice”.



Steve Bannon speaking with attendees at the 2022 AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0


“I think Mark Milley has to be recalled to active duty on the afternoon of the 20th [of January], and I think a military tribunal, a court martial, has to be called,” Bannon said. “Impanel a court martial, and Mark Milley has to be brought up on charges in court martial.”

Mark Milley is a retired United States Army general who served as the 20th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from October 1, 2019, to September 30, 2023. Following reports that during the 2020 presidential election Milley called his counterpart in the People's Republic of China (PRC) to reassure him that the US would not start a war, and if there were to be an attack, that he would alert him ahead of time, Trump described his action as “treasonous”. 

“[Milley] turned out to be a Woke train wreck who, if the Fake News reporting is correct, was actually dealing with China to give them a heads up on the thinking of the President of the United States,” Trump posted on Truth Social in 2023. “A war between China and the United States could have been the result of this treasonous act.” Trump added that in the past such an act would have been punished by execution. 

Bannon further suggested that Trump should embark on the largest declassification of US government documents in history: “I would start in the afternoon of the 20th with the beginning of a rolling series of the biggest declassifications we've ever had. As you know, Sean, too much stuff is classified, and that's just to … keep the powers that be … I think you start with … mass declassifications day after day after day on all types of topics.”

Bannon advised Trump to focus on economic messaging while allowing the Attorney General to handle judicial matters. Bannon also proposed establishing a new committee to reexamine the findings of the original January 6 Select Committee, which was formed under H.Res.503 on June 30, 2021, by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. This suggestion aims to challenge and potentially revise the conclusions reached by the Democrat-led investigation into the Capitol attack. 

Bannon refused to testify to the January 6 Committee and in July 2023 he was convicted to four months in prison for defying a subpoena. After serving his prison term, he was released from a Danbury, Connecticut, correctional facility on October 29, 2024.

“Trump should be up every day talking to the people about economics, about his new tax cuts, about his growth policies, about all that,” Bannon stated in the interview. “President Trump ought be doing that and let — now you've got Gaetz, you've got other people that can carry the ball for you on what has to be total open sunlight investigations. What I think has to happen is we have to redo a new January 6 Committee where they [the Democrats] have a ranking member and they have minority Council, they get all the information, they cross-examine. We have to do it like we've done Watergate …”  

Speaking about his time in prison, the 70-year-old Bannon called it “the most empowering thing I've ever done”. 

“[I]t was very empowering for me to know that I could physically go through something that's trying to break you and I went through and I actually … I enjoyed the challenge, I actually loved it. The challenge is so extreme because the place is so violent, there's so many drugs and it's such a controlled environment … I was proud and I said if I have to go to prison again for fighting for this, I'll go to prison again. I'm not going to back off and they can't intimidate me with prison.”

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