Steve Bannon Ramps Up MAGA Civil War With Graphic Threat to Elon Musk
“We don’t need white guys from South Africa lecturing us on how the way things should be,” Bannon ranted on Tuesday.
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Steve Bannon is ramping up his attack on Elon Musk. And this time he’s threatening violence.
The house of MAGA has been in flames this week over Musk’s plan to protect immigrants with H-1B visas, while diehard conservatives like the president-elect’s former strategist Bannon and Trump loyalist Laura Loomer have said foreign workers should be deported and replaced with “real” Americans.
On the last episode of the year for Bannon’s War Room podcast, he sent a threatening message to the SpaceX founder: “Don’t come up and go to the pulpit and… start lecturing people about the way things are going to be… If you’re going to do that, we’re going to rip your face off.”
Steve Bannon To @elonmusk On H-1B Visas: “You Know It’s Bald-Faced Lie Because You Cratered Right When We Got Up In Your Grill.” pic.twitter.com/XNcCziDHv6
— Bannon’s WarRoom (@Bannons_WarRoom) December 31, 2024
Musk caused a stir this week after he agreed with a post that called Americans too “retarded” to fill all tech industry roles in the country. “The reason I’m in America along with so many critical people who built SpaceX, Tesla and hundreds of other companies that made America strong is because of H1B,” the X owner posted on his own platform over the weekend. “Take a big step back and F--- YOURSELF in the face. I will go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend.”
Bannon continued to rail against Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the billionaire’s co-head for the Department of Gov. Efficiency Department, and supporters of H-1B, on Tuesday.
“Dude, I’ve taken down bigger guys than that a decade ago, OK,” Bannon said of the pair. “We don’t need white guys from South Africa lecturing us on how the way things should be.”
He then said that the nation needed to take a pause on immigration as a whole.
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“Right now, I say we must demand a moratorium on all immigration,” Bannon continued, “all the students, everything.”
Donald Trump, meanwhile, has taken Musk’s side in the war over immigrant visas. “I’ve always liked the visas, I have always been in favor of the visas. That’s why we have them,” the president-elect said.
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