On this episode of War Room, Stephen K. Bann and his co-host, Evan Lewis, discuss the current state of the conservative movement and how it intersects with Donald Trump's agenda. They also discuss the role of evangelicals and how they have failed to live up to the values they claim to believe in.
00:00:00.000So let's let's show the blasphemy that is coming out of the evangelical right with this God complex that that Donald Trump and his supporters are putting forth here.
00:00:10.300You know, the evangelical church has failed this country. Not only have they failed America, but they've also failed Christianity.
00:00:17.800They are so far away from the gospels of Jesus. Could you imagine if the evangelical church actually followed what they claim to preach in the Bible?
00:00:25.400We wouldn't have had four years of Donald Trump. We would have had an insurrection in January 6th.
00:00:30.500We wouldn't have had the cruelty that we saw with kids in cages. We wouldn't have this idea that character doesn't seem to matter anymore.
00:00:37.440Could you imagine the kind of country we would have we would have had by now if the evangelicals actually followed the Bible they claim to worship?
00:00:44.520Instead, they're following their God, their golden orange God and Donald Trump. And this is a way of us pointing that out.
00:00:50.320Politicians are simply reflecting the overwhelming majority of Republicans that put them in office in primaries.
00:00:58.980Yeah, that's exactly right. I mean, I'm not even going to really go there, but there was a line that I guess I will go there that Hillary Clinton got in trouble for in 2016 when she used the term deplorable.
00:01:12.240But that is kind of where we are. Right. And I think it's now coming to where we're seeing the fact that there are a lot of folks out there in America who this is what they believe in.
00:01:23.360This is what they want. And you certainly see that in the Republican Party where you have you do have some Republicans out there who I think are still very much struggling to find a home.
00:01:34.020You know, is there a moderate Republican left that I can vote for?
00:01:37.820And sometimes you do see those Republicans in primaries, but they almost always lose to the MAGA extremists if they are running against a MAGA Republican.
00:01:46.740And then that person oftentimes, especially in swing districts, more often than not, loses in the general election.
00:01:52.860So it's something the Republican Party is going to have to grapple with.
00:01:55.500Again, I remember in 2016 knowing that someday this was going to all come back around and the Republicans were going to have a really hard time trying to figure out how to move forward as a party while they embrace this MAGA movement.
00:02:08.060And here we're seeing this play out in real time now.
00:02:10.680If you look at the lines of work, I kind of break it out into three verticals or three buckets.
00:02:14.240The first is kind of national security and sovereignty, and that's your intelligence, the Defense Department, Homeland Security.
00:02:20.020The second line of work is what I refer to as economic nationalism, and that is Wilbur Ross at Commerce, Steve Mnuchin at Treasury, Lighthizer at Trade, Peter Navarro, Stephen Miller,
00:02:31.740these people that are rethinking how we're going to reconstruct our trade arrangements around the world.
00:02:36.740The third, broadly, line of work is what is deconstruction of the administrative state.
00:13:15.480They have their own policymaking and the federal regulations.
00:13:18.800This is one of the reasons, like, with this SEC, we're going to get more into this, I think, on the evening show.
00:13:25.920The natural asset companies, this end around, same thing they're doing with, like, the WHO and HHS plays footsie with them to cede our sovereignty to the WHO.
00:13:36.240The same thing you're seeing with these natural asset companies, take away property rights, and maybe who knows who actually get into these companies like the CCP or others that could actually control the natural resources of the United States.
00:13:49.200These are all from these administrative agencies, and it's not just the alphabet agencies.
00:13:52.960Also, the cabinet positions and the cabinet offices have expanded their powers, right, and now have this kind of interlocking grip on the United States of America.
00:14:05.760We're going to get Brother Clark back up.
00:14:14.420Paul Ingrassi has got a very sharp take, almost like a Garrett Ziggler-type take on Fannie Willis.
00:14:19.780The lawfare around President Trump continues to collapse, although they've got him in New York court on this defamation, another kangaroo court in New York to try to strip President Trump of his wealth, his property, all of it as the lawfare continues unabated.
00:14:36.980President Trump will speak at 7 p.m. tonight in New Hampshire.
00:21:11.560You have to at some point go after the entire Chevron doctrine and hopefully the deference is overturned.
00:21:17.580But if this just takes a chip away at it, there's other things throughout the country that are brewing up that people are taking cases now,
00:21:24.580particularly when you have guys like Gorsuch and others that are very focused on this issue.
00:21:29.520Exactly. Look, Steve, the separation of powers was basically in many ways thrown in the wastebasket as a result of the New Deal.
00:21:39.960And we need to take it back and restore it, dust it off and give it its place of prominence in our legal system.
00:21:50.060I think even if the court doesn't press ahead in this case, eventually Justice Gorsuch in particular is going to drive them to take a case to do that.
00:21:59.260But also, you know, it's things like the fact that we have heads of agencies who, you know,
00:22:04.860they have tenures that the president can't remove them because they can only be removed for cause.
00:22:09.860I think that's a violation of the appointments clause, which is an aspect of the separation of powers.
00:22:14.660These are key things that were put in place to be able to enact agencies like the FTC and the EPA and the Federal Communications Commission, the FCC.
00:22:25.740And, you know, we need to get back to, you know, Republican, Democratic constitutional governance,
00:22:32.140where it's the people who select the president and then the president who sets policies.
00:22:37.320But in terms of enacting the laws, it's Congress that enacts the laws.
00:22:40.260And at this point, we have, as you continually flog, a kind of do-nothing Congress.
00:23:30.360Okay, lawfare is relentless against President Trump.
00:23:34.180It's their ace in the hole how they think they're going to bet the Biden regime and, of course, the crazies over at State TV, at MSNBC, kind of the RT of America.
00:23:52.960And is she going to be able to continue to torment President Trump, Paul?
00:23:56.760Well, I think based on the revelations that came to the forefront this week, this case should be dismissed.
00:24:04.340And Brian Kemp, being the governor of the state of Georgia, has a constitutional prerogative to appoint his attorney general, Chris Carr, to intervene in this case.
00:24:15.320And that is something that he has the power to do.
00:24:18.700Now, the issues with this case, obviously, there are political improprieties that started from the very beginning.
00:24:25.440We know that this is a political hit job.
00:24:27.280This is a continuation of the weaponization of the justice system against President Trump by the left.
00:24:34.660But now we see that Fannie Willis' improprieties go far beyond that to moral and ethical proprieties and deep-seated violations of their professional code of conduct.
00:24:47.840Now, Fannie Willis appointed this special prosecutor by the name of Nathaniel Wade, who, prior to being put on the most consequential criminal prosecution, arguably in American history, the fact that you're involving a sitting president, this guy was basically a traffic court judge.
00:25:07.640He didn't prosecute anything beyond a misdemeanor.
00:25:10.940So this guy was patently inexperienced to take on a case of this magnitude, just, you know, at face value.
00:25:18.860Now, the rot runs much, much deeper than that.
00:25:22.740Once he was appointed to the case, the day afterwards, he filed for divorce against his now ex-wife, Joycelyn Wade.
00:25:31.640So from court records based on that divorce filing, which were immediately put under seal, it revealed that he had not disclosed up to, you know, she alleged at the time that he was getting paid $700,000 as a result.
00:25:49.200Or, I mean, basically she wanted financial disclosures from him.
00:26:02.860This guy, Nathaniel Wade, Fonnie Wilson's special prosecutor, had experience prosecuting these types of cases before.
00:26:11.180He was a misdemeanor, you know, as I explained before.
00:26:14.380And so he should have been readily familiar with how divorce proceedings work.
00:26:18.680He withheld critical financial disclosures to his ex-wife.
00:26:23.560The court held him in contempt for that.
00:26:26.780And as a result, he was forced to ultimately disclose that he was making over $700,000 by, at least $700,000 by Fonnie Wilson's office.
00:26:38.940Now, this has been independently substantiated by a really explosive motion to dismiss filed by one of the 17 co-defendants on this case, a man by the name of Mike Roman, who was a former employee of President Trump's.
00:26:59.720He alleged, among other things, that she was getting paid, he said, a million dollars from Fonnie Wilson's office.
00:27:07.600In addition, Nathan Wade, while on the case, had been making trips to Washington, D.C., petitioning both the January 6th committee as well as the Biden White House for additional funding for the case.
00:27:22.220Breitbart reported that they received up to $14 million from the Justice Department to add to their budget.
00:27:29.980Now, what were they doing with this money?
00:29:47.780It's not only going to have a massive impact on this country's finances, your community's finances, but also your family and your personal.
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00:32:09.120And the remedy is actually quite simple.
00:32:11.260Kemp is making it seem much more complicated than it should be.
00:32:14.280The remedy is right there in the Georgia State Constitution, Article 5, Section 3, Paragraph 4.
00:32:20.140It says the governor can appoint the attorney general to intervene and represent the state for all capital and civil and criminal cases in any court when required by the governor.
00:32:30.600So the power is right there in the state constitution.
00:32:34.600And what basically needs to be done is the indictment needs to be dismissed.
00:32:39.360Willis and, of course, her romantic partner here and Wade have to be disciplined sternly by the Georgia bar.
00:32:47.560The only just remedy for the amount of improprieties involved in this case is to dismiss the indictment without prejudice, reassign the investigation to another district attorney, attorney, and let them start from scratch with a new special purpose grand jury.
00:33:03.440And depending on the outcome, a new regular grand jury to see if a new indictment can be returned.
00:33:08.860Anything short of that, Steve, would risk further undermining public confidence in a proceeding where basically public confidence has already bottomed out.
00:33:17.300And the entire integrity of the American justice system basically hangs on a thread, given the stakes of this case.
00:33:25.560So that basically is the swift and decisive action that needs to be done.
00:33:29.680And Brian Kemp has the power to do it.
00:33:32.160And public pressure has to ratchet up to get Brian Kemp to respond to his constituents.
00:33:37.980I think what we're going to do is then tomorrow we'll get numbers and phone and Grace will help out here and I think Bill White from down in Fulton County are going to try to get him.
00:33:48.220Just before I move to one more topic, Paul, this is just not Garrett Ziegler and others and Paul Ingrassi, et cetera.
00:33:56.920Has she not been – has Fannie Willis not been subpoenaed in the divorce proceedings?
00:34:00.460Has not the aggrieved, I guess, soon-to-be ex-wife of Nathan Wade?
00:34:05.560Hasn't she subpoenaed Fannie Willis to the divorce proceedings?
00:34:11.440Not to my knowledge, and there's so much that they're covering up.
00:34:14.960Again, I said that whole divorce proceeding was put under seal, under questionable legality.
00:34:20.100Why that is the case, of course, they're trying to cover up what these Mike Roman revelations revealed.
00:34:26.580So there's so much there, and I just hit on the – scratched the surface on this.
00:34:32.140There's – I'm sure the corruption runs all the way through the entire district attorney's office, and that's why the entire thing needs to be totally dismissed without prejudice.
00:34:56.340Until then, what's your social media website?
00:34:58.400Where do people get your writings on all this?
00:34:59.980So they can find me on paulandgracia.substack.com.
00:35:04.460That's where the writings on Fannie Willis are.
00:35:07.220Obviously, Twitter, Paul and Gracia, and also, as you just alluded to, the natural-born citizenship and presidential eligibility articles there as well.
00:35:17.840That got a little – that kind of went kind of viral.
00:36:19.240And here's the situation is that you do not – people understand because of you, this audience, and the numbers 202-225-3121 that the heat is on.
00:36:30.700The constituents of the Republican Party and particularly the MAGA part of it, not the establishment part, even the establishment things come around to this, say that the border must be shut down or you can't go forward in this.
00:36:40.440If you don't shut down the border, if you don't close the border, then shut down the government.
00:37:14.100At the same time, you would approve $80 billion or $60 billion to Ukraine.
00:37:18.880They think people are idiots, and that's why lighting up the phones over there, sending emails, calling their local offices, and particularly Langford's office has got them scared to death.
00:37:30.660One of the games they're doing – and this talks about these secret negotiations.
00:37:34.040They've had Blinken, you know, with the Middle East war expanding every day, the Persians now on the Southern Arabian Peninsula with their – the Houthis.
00:37:43.080They've got the Revolutionary Guard there.
00:37:53.340They're desperate to get the numbers down on the optics.
00:37:56.960They've got to get the optics down here because they realize this could lead to a landslide election win for us across the board, sir.
00:38:04.800Explain to us what's going on behind the scenes this audience has to understand.
00:38:09.700Okay, if you go to CIS.org, Center for Immigration Studies.org, you'll find my reportorial essay there about what's happening in Mexico right now.
00:38:27.040How it has changed is – remember the shuttle diplomacy of December 22 when Biden went down there and then on the 27th when Mayorkas and Blinken went down there?
00:38:38.760Well, nobody told us what the deal was, but they cut a deal.
00:38:42.660We still don't know the details of it, but we now see the fruit of it politically for the Biden administration and for AMLO.
00:38:50.900Mexico is involved in a massive crackdown at their northern border with ours, rounding up thousands and thousands of immigrants so that they can't cross in as high in numbers and shipping them by bus and airplane down to Villa Hermosa and Tapachula, Mexico.
00:39:09.860They're creating a new Gaza Strip down there basically and trying to hem in hundreds of thousands coming through there so that they can't reach our border.
00:39:19.520They are bulldozing migrant camps all along our border.
00:39:26.280They are digging anti-pedestrian trenches.
00:39:30.160They are shutting down the freight trains, the cargo trains, which we spoke about here on your show a lot.
00:39:39.600I did a lot of reporting one year ago about how those freight trains were responsible for hundreds of thousands reaching our border quickly, cheaply, and easily, but that nobody was doing anything about it.
00:39:52.540Well, now the Mexicans are blockading a whole bunch of the cargo depots down there and pulling them off and shipping them down to their Gaza Strip on the south.
00:40:05.060The result of this is that, remember, just a few weeks ago, we were having 14,000 a day, 15,000 a day, 12,000 a day, monumental numbers crossing over that border.
00:40:18.680Now, in January, they've tamped it down to a still catastrophic 5,000 and 6,000 a day, but 60% and 70% off.
00:40:31.500My sources tell me that this deal is good through December of this year, which just gets us past the election, that this is a political deal.
00:40:43.720We don't know if money has changed hands yet.
00:40:45.720Nobody's reporting or talking about what we had to pay AMLO to do this, but the posse needs to understand, the American public needs to understand that this is a temporary fake fix for political purposes, and it's not real.
00:41:09.880And I don't believe that when they start doing victory laps, oh, look, we've got the numbers down, that anybody should give a pass on that because 5,000 a day is a monumental crisis.
00:41:31.020There are no – by the way, didn't AMLO, I started, it was $20 billion he needed as a payment?
00:41:35.980That's what the – also the – there are no coincidences, the 5,000 ties to the Lankford.
00:41:44.380What other word have you heard that – here's the point that McConnell is trying to make.
00:41:51.440He's saying, oh, you'll never get a deal with Trump because Trump's too tough, Trump's too hard, which by the way, all we have to do is implement the – all we have to do is execute the laws on the books right now, and you can shut this thing down.
00:42:03.580Totally shut it down, HR2 ads, but if you just did the laws on the books right now, this would dry up.
00:42:09.460What are you hearing about the behind-the-scenes negotiations right now on this – what is an amnesty bill?
00:42:20.520I'm not directly involved in any of that.
00:42:22.940But what I'm hearing is that Lankford is negotiating directly with Alejandro Mayorkas.
00:42:30.180That's like the last person that any Republican should be – like he's the arsonist.
00:42:36.060I mean, Mayorkas, and that Lankford is not interested in talking to people like me or to people like former Trump officials, Mark Morgan or Thomas Holman or some of the people that have a different perspective on this.
00:49:49.980Let you guys deal with it, but ashamed deeply.
00:49:52.680Brad, this firefight that's going to go on between now and they're going to come up with every excuse in the world to kick the can down the road.
00:49:58.580Now is our time to sit there and say, no, we're tired of the nonsense.
00:51:51.820I mean, and that's really what happens.
00:51:54.980And the people, but the people are now coming out in full force.
00:51:59.480They're sick of being lied to on the Ukraine, on the border, on the budget.
00:52:03.680We're going to fund a $7 trillion budget again, it looks like, unless our guys get some chops.
00:52:10.560But that whole thing, we're funding a COVID economy again, $7 trillion levels with huge stimulus to bail out the opposing side in the politics.
00:52:22.280By the way, Dave, can I get you to hang around?
00:52:26.680They've got the child tax credit and the cuts to taxes for businessmen.
00:52:32.020Hey, listen, why would the Republicans agree to another Keynesian stimulus that's going to cost hundreds of billions of dollars that will only help Biden in an election year?