Steve Bannon Declares Charlie Kirk a Christian Martyr and Calls Out Ben Shapiro's Never Trump Record

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[00:15] Thank you. Thank you. We are at war.

[00:20] [cheering]

[00:22] You know how we know this? You just

[00:24] heard Hawkins up here a few minutes ago,

[00:27] right? What did she say at the very

[00:30] moment Charlie Kirk was assassinated?

[00:33] What? The University of Montana? They

[00:36] laughed in her face.

[00:38] Right.

[00:39] Laughed in her face. And some guy goes,

[00:41] "Oh, we're at war."

[00:44] Charlie Kirk knew we're war. Every time

[00:47] I've spoken at uh at any event of

[00:51] turning point, I always start with that

[00:53] because Charlie Kirk knew one thing. He

[00:55] knew we were at war and he knew we were

[00:57] going to be victorious if we didn't

[01:00] quit.

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[01:06] Now what do I mean by that? Let's go

[01:07] back. Do you understand? For the last 10

[01:11] years,

[01:13] there have been eight national

[01:15] elections. either primaries

[01:18] uh off-year elections where Congress is

[01:21] is voted on for the whole nation or

[01:24] presidential elections.

[01:26] We have won seven of those eight. This

[01:31] is why they hated

[01:34] this is why they hated Charlie Kirk. It

[01:37] wasn't Charlie Kirk's philosophy or even

[01:39] his debates. Charlie Kirk was a tough

[01:43] tough person that built a machine that

[01:47] you guys are dedicated to that delivered

[01:49] victories. Let's be specific. Go back to

[01:52] 2015. President Trump 1516 wins the

[01:56] primary against all odds. Then in 16 he

[01:59] wins a come from behind, you know, once

[02:01] in a-lifetime uh victory against Hillary

[02:04] Clinton. We lost the 18 midterms because

[02:08] people were leaning on their rakes,

[02:10] leaning on their rakes, and it we lost,

[02:12] I don't know, 35 or 40 House seats. And

[02:15] Nancy Pelosi told us exactly what she

[02:17] was going to do. She impeached Trump and

[02:20] almost brought it all down. President

[02:22] Trump came back, won the primary, right,

[02:25] very easily. Nobody really ran against

[02:27] him. I don't think anybody ran against

[02:28] him. 2020, we won the 2020 election.

[02:34] Is there any is there any dispute on

[02:37] that? If you don't believe that, you

[02:38] don't believe a foundational element of

[02:41] the MAGA movement. We won 2020. And to

[02:45] show you how we won it, we picked up 14

[02:48] House seats that night. 14 House seats.

[02:52] Then President Trump went into the

[02:54] wilderness. This is when Charlie Kirk

[02:57] really, I think, stepped up the most.

[02:59] President Trump was sent to Mara Lago.

[03:01] They never thought he was coming back.

[03:03] The Republican party never thought he

[03:04] was coming back.

[03:06] And what happened? President Trump

[03:08] grinded it out. In fact, he told us on

[03:10] this stage last year right here, the

[03:12] first time he told anybody when Charlie

[03:15] had him come out here and speak, what'd

[03:16] he say? He said, "I had to run again cuz

[03:20] I could not let them steal an election

[03:23] because they're stealing the country."

[03:25] And we s we see what Biden did.

[03:30] Then we win the midterms in 22. We

[03:34] picked up about 11 seats, eight net, and

[03:36] took the House of Representatives. There

[03:38] were supposed to be more, but we got

[03:40] control of the House. And then in really

[03:43] the greatest come from behind ever.

[03:45] President Trump turning point put him on

[03:48] his should put him put him on their

[03:50] shoulders. We won the greatest election

[03:53] in the history of the country.

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[04:01] In 10 years, in 10 years, a decade,

[04:06] you've been beaten once.

[04:09] When we leaned on our shovels,

[04:12] Charlie Kirk understood one thing. We

[04:15] are at war. It's a political war. It's a

[04:19] what? A cold civil war. We don't want it

[04:21] to turn hot. We don't need it to turn

[04:23] hot. If we accomplish what we're

[04:25] supposed to accomplish, and we have won

[04:29] seven of eight national elections, the

[04:32] American people are with us. As long as

[04:34] we get things done, as long as we

[04:36] accomplish the punch list that Rob

[04:38] Snyder talked about when he walked down

[04:40] this stage, that's what's incumbent upon

[04:42] us and that's what the Republican

[04:44] establishment to date because you can

[04:46] already see what they're doing and

[04:48] trying to block President Trump. You see

[04:51] this in Indianapolis. You see this in

[04:52] the redistricting. The Republican

[04:55] establishment

[04:56] think that President Trump's just a

[04:58] passing storm and that he's just going

[05:00] to fade away. And what they're going to

[05:02] try to do is co-opt co-op turning point

[05:06] because Charlie has built it into a

[05:08] massive political operation that cannot

[05:12] be beat and the left knows that. It's

[05:15] one of the reasons. Yes, I realize we

[05:17] haven't gone to trial yet. We don't know

[05:18] all the information.

[05:20] It looks like, you know, at least the

[05:22] information we have out, it may be this

[05:24] guy. Maybe not. Maybe not an

[05:26] organization in back of it. We don't

[05:28] know that yet because the evidence

[05:29] hasn't been put out.

[05:31] But Charlie Kirk is dead.

[05:36] Think about that. The individual that's

[05:39] probably, I think, at his age, the

[05:42] greatest individual this country's

[05:43] produced politically, culturally since

[05:46] the revolution.

[05:48] Remember all of it? revolution with

[05:50] dirty Charlie Kirks. Hell, he's 31 years

[05:52] old. He's been doing this since he was

[05:55] 18, 17 or 18. [applause]

[05:59] But Charlie Kirk was a man of action.

[06:01] And here's I want to make sure that we

[06:03] get something straight tonight. We have

[06:04] a partners discussion

[06:06] and uh I want to say upfront if I hurt

[06:09] some feelings here. You can come and

[06:11] talk to me afterwards.

[06:13] This whole thing that's gone on the last

[06:16] couple days, some of the comments

[06:17] tonight,

[06:18] this is not about this specific incident

[06:22] is not about freedom of speech or

[06:24] platforming or deplatforming. They're

[06:26] all talking about that and that's, you

[06:28] know, people are saying hurtful things

[06:30] to each other.

[06:32] Tucker said the quiet part out loud.

[06:35] This is a proxy on 28.

[06:39] Now, I think it's way too early to be

[06:41] thinking about 28.

[06:43] But he's right about one thing. This is

[06:46] a proxy on an issue that's not freedom

[06:49] of speech and not are you going to get

[06:51] platformed to deplatformed.

[06:54] This is about

[06:56] a

[06:58] situation that Charlie Kirk was probably

[07:03] one of the most, if not the most

[07:05] important person in doing and

[07:07] accomplishing.

[07:09] And that is this concept

[07:11] of what I would call greater Israel and

[07:14] Israel first. You can't get a better

[07:18] defender of Israel than Charlie Kirk.

[07:22] You can't get a better defender of

[07:24] Israel than Steve Bannon at Breitbart.

[07:27] Adamant couldn't have a two-state

[07:29] solution. In the White House, I'm the

[07:31] one that pushed initially hard to move

[07:34] the embassy to Jerusalem.

[07:37] at war room. Ask all the war room people

[07:39] are here. Ask all the posi. We always

[07:42] talk about it. And we're a one state,

[07:43] not a two state. But that's about

[07:46] Israel.

[07:48] It's not about greater Israel. And it's

[07:50] not about Israel first. Charlie Kirk had

[07:54] some foundational beliefs. Those

[07:56] foundational beliefs are number one,

[07:58] he's a populist nationalist. America

[08:02] makes its own decisions for America.

[08:06] >> [cheering and applause]

[08:08] >> And as a populist, the American people

[08:11] are the people that make those

[08:13] decisions.

[08:15] Now, Benji Shapiro sat up here last

[08:18] night and he was all, you know, I'm

[08:21] going, you know, it's all about the

[08:22] truth. Ben, I've known you a long time,

[08:24] brother. You can't handle the truth.

[08:31] >> [applause]

[08:34] >> Let's face it, Ben Ben Shapiro is the

[08:36] farthest thing from MAGA. Let's be

[08:38] blunt.

[08:41] He is a hardcore never Trumper. He's a

[08:44] hardcore never Trumper. In in in the

[08:47] spring of uh 16, he tried to upend

[08:50] Breitbart. He walked off the job, made a

[08:53] big deal about some incident in Mara

[08:54] Lago with Cory Luwendowski. He tried to

[08:57] turn it to Ted Cruz from Donald Trump

[09:00] because he hated Donald Trump in the

[09:02] general election. He barely supported

[09:04] Donald Trump. The first sign of when

[09:07] President Trump gets sent back to Mara

[09:09] Lago, the very first individual that

[09:12] jumped on the Ron DeSantis train, the

[09:14] Israel first trans was Ben Shapiro. And

[09:18] those are the darkest days we had in 21

[09:22] and 22. You guys were there.

[09:25] He's consistently been against Trump and

[09:27] now that President Trump doesn't back

[09:29] the Greater Israel project. What is

[09:30] greater Israel? It's not about Israel

[09:32] itself. It's about an expansionist

[09:35] Israel, an imperial Israel that

[09:37] Netanyahu and that crowd have thought

[09:39] up. And the Israel first crowd is Ben

[09:42] Shapiro, Tel Aviv, Mark Levvin, and many

[09:45] others

[09:47] that want to put that ahead of America's

[09:49] interests. [applause]

[09:55] Charlie Kirk fought that. You know where

[09:57] Charlie Kirk fought it? In the White

[09:58] House. I know cuz I was there when I

[10:02] went back. Charlie Kirk was working with

[10:03] Sergio Gore, certain people around the

[10:06] vice president to make sure that that we

[10:08] didn't get sucked into a land war, a

[10:11] decapitation of the Iranian elites that

[10:14] would lead to a massive civil war that

[10:16] American troops would get sucked into

[10:18] because that was Netanyahu's plan from

[10:21] the beginning. And we know that the

[10:24] Times of Israel has published that there

[10:26] was no urgency to go after the nuclear

[10:28] weapons. We know the fact they couldn't

[10:30] finish what they started. We know for a

[10:32] fact we know for a fact that they had

[10:36] they needed American egypes fed missiles

[10:39] patriots to defend themselves. On day 10

[10:41] of the war they were losing and they

[10:44] didn't have the offensive capability.

[10:46] And I don't mean the B2s coming in and

[10:48] taking out the caves. They relied upon

[10:51] our 1970s technology of cruise missiles

[10:55] fired from submarines in the North

[10:56] Arabian Sea to take out the above

[10:58] ground.

[11:00] We had to bring that war to conclusion.

[11:01] And President Trump and his brilliance

[11:03] said, "We'll do that and we'll call it

[11:04] the 12-day war and it's over."

[11:08] Now, for the Israel first crowd, they

[11:11] are the ones that are destroying Israel.

[11:14] Today in Miami, who's negotiating with

[11:17] Witoff? It's the Turks. It's Qatar. It's

[11:21] the Egyptians. Because Qatar is going to

[11:24] underwrite Gaza and 2 million

[11:27] Palestinians are going to stay there and

[11:29] the Turks are providing on Egyptian soil

[11:32] called Gaza or on Israel soil called

[11:35] Gaza is going to provide the military

[11:38] control mechanism over UAE troops, Saudi

[11:41] troops, and Egyptian troops. That's a

[11:43] two-state solution that has been

[11:45] provided because the efforts of the

[11:49] Israel first crowd. And Charlie Kirk had

[11:52] one simple thing that he thought about.

[11:55] Who controls America and who makes

[11:58] decisions for the United States of

[12:00] America? And Charlie Kirk worked

[12:03] overtime because behind the scenes he

[12:06] was a player. Not just helping Sergio

[12:08] get all types of great people in there

[12:10] and vet those people, but actually

[12:12] talking about policy. And part of that

[12:15] policy was no more foreign wars.

[12:21] [cheering]

[12:24] Charlie absolutely believed what I

[12:26] believe. The Middle East is a sideshow

[12:28] and Israel's a sideshow to a sideshow.

[12:31] Now voices out there that support Israel

[12:34] like Laura Loomer and Rabbi Wiki and

[12:37] others are coming forward and say look

[12:39] maybe Bannon and these guys are right.

[12:41] We don't want to take any more American

[12:43] money. We don't have any more more

[12:44] American control. We want to be out go

[12:46] out and do what we want to do when we

[12:49] the Israelis feel they have to do it. I

[12:51] support that 100%. Israel needs its

[12:53] sovereignty. Israel needs to be

[12:55] independent. If Israel wants to take on

[12:57] Syria, go for it. If Israel wants to go

[12:59] into Lebanon, go for it. But not drag

[13:02] the United States of America into

[13:05] another endless war.

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[13:16] Ask Megan Kelly when she comes over

[13:17] here. Look, Breitbart

[13:20] Shapiro called Breitbart Trump Pravda.

[13:23] When he left, he called it Trump Pravda.

[13:26] And he was kind of right. We had to be.

[13:28] There was no other news site that was

[13:30] supporting President Trump. When poor

[13:31] Megan Kelly came out in that first

[13:32] debate and made what looks like now some

[13:34] innocuous questions, right, about

[13:37] Trump's Facebook page or his Twitter

[13:39] feed about Rosie O'Donnell and others

[13:43] have Jack Bobic ask her how it turned

[13:45] out. We unleashed the dogs. We went, we

[13:47] were maniacs. Why? President Trump had

[13:50] no backing. Had no backing at Fox. Had

[13:52] no backing in the National Review. And

[13:53] at 16, that would have driven him out of

[13:55] the race. So, we had to be there. But

[13:59] Ben Shapiro is like a cancer and that

[14:02] cancer spreads.

[14:06] [cheering]

[14:08] It's a cancer and it metastasizes.

[14:11] He tried to take over Breitbart and I

[14:13] ran him out of there. He tried to take

[14:15] over David Horowitz's who was his

[14:17] mentor. Don't ask me. Ask the guys

[14:20] associated with David Horowitz what he

[14:21] did there. He tried to take that over.

[14:23] And mark my word, he will make a move on

[14:27] Turning Point because he's always been

[14:29] envious of Charlie Kirk.

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[14:37] This is not about speech. It's not about

[14:39] deplatforming. This is about power

[14:41] politics. And what Charlie Kirk believed

[14:44] in to the core of his being that America

[14:49] makes decisions for America and

[14:51] Americans make decisions for America.

[14:55] That was Charlie Kirk. That's why the

[14:58] hell why the hell do you think they

[15:00] assassinate him? Why they put the poison

[15:02] all over this place? Why they mock and

[15:04] ridicule? James Carville said yesterday

[15:06] that Rob Rhino has done a hundred times

[15:08] more than Charlie Kirk. They hate

[15:10] Charlie Kirk because Charlie Kirk

[15:12] brought victories. And with victory

[15:15] after victory after victory, that's when

[15:18] we can recchristianize this country.

[15:20] What was Charlie Kirk's lesson? That we

[15:22] were a Christian nation that got off the

[15:24] rails. We have to recchristianize

[15:27] this country. [cheering]

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[15:36] You are in

[15:39] the shadows of a giant, not just an

[15:41] American patriot and a uh an American

[15:44] hero. Charlie Kirk is a Christian

[15:48] martyr. And Charlie Kirk is a Christian

[15:52] saint.

[15:53] That is your legacy that you take up.

[15:56] The day I went into prison. The day I

[15:58] went to prison. We passed the show to

[16:00] Charlie Kirk as we did oftentimes in the

[16:02] three and a half years that Charlie

[16:04] Pobic and I had that block at Real

[16:06] America's Voice. And what Charlie said,

[16:08] I said to Charlie, "Next man up."

[16:10] Charlie said, "I got it. Next man up.

[16:13] Are you next man up? Are you going to

[16:15] fill the shoes of Charlie Kirk? Do you

[16:17] have the stones to do it? Do you have

[16:20] the guts to do it?"

[16:22] Ask yourself that because I tell you

[16:24] what, that's what's going you in this

[16:26] room right here are going to decide

[16:28] whether we win in 26. And if we don't

[16:31] win in 26, they're going to bring holy

[16:34] hell down on us. We have to win. Charlie

[16:37] Kirk knew that. And you know that. Thank

[16:40] you very much. Next man up.

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