Former Trump national security prosecutor Kash Patel said a new Trump administration elected in 2024 would prosecute media “conspirators” and “lied about American citizens.”
Speaking on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast on Tuesday, Patel said:
“We will go out and find the conspirators—not just in government but the media.”
“Yes, we’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections.”
Patel made the remarks while discussing Democrats’ 2024 strategy and his new book, titled “Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy.”
The Deep State will be dismantled “brick by brick,” he said, including criminal and civil prosecutions.
Bannon framed his question to Patel, saying he wanted news producers to know: “This is just not rhetoric. We’re absolutely dead serious.”
Patel promised that prosecutions could come swiftly if Trump is elected.
“The one thing we will do, that they [Democrats] never will do, is we will follow the facts and the law and go to courts of law and correct these justices and lawyers who have been prosecuting these cases based on politics and .actually issuing them as lawfare,” Patel said.
“We’re going to come after you. Whether it’s criminally or civilly, we’ll figure that out. But yeah, we’re putting you all on notice, and Steve, this is why they hate us,” Patel added.
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“This is why we’re ‘tyrannical.’ This is why we’re ‘dictators,'” he added.
“Because we’re actually going to use the Constitution to prosecute them for crimes they said we have always been guilty of but never have,” he added.
Media are continuing their attacks on Trump, most noted in a recent Washington Post article titled “The Fear of a Looming Trump Dictatorship” and a Salon article on Tuesday titled “Americans Are Sleepwalking into a Trump Dictatorship.”
Trump responded to the headlines by saying he’ll only be a “dictator” on his first day in office.
Bannon also asked Patel about his thoughts on the Democrats’ strategy for the 2024 presidential race, which involved conspiring with left-wing media outlets to launch an assault on Trump.
Bannon noted that Democrats can’t run a winning presidential campaign on economy or national security.
The only thing they can run on,” Bannon said, is to claim Trump is a “dictator.”
“That is their campaign,” Bannon declared.
“That’s what we’re highlighting.”
Patel agreed with Bannon’s assessment.
“Steve, it goes down to one thing,” Mr. Patel said.
“They know that they can’t bring up a better policy than President Trump on anything. Not the border, not taking on the CCP [Chinese Communist Party], not defeating Iran, not taking on Russia, not taking on the DPRK [North Korean regime], not ending forever wars, not ending human trafficking, not ending the drug cartels. Anything!
“They have no better policy,” he continued.
“And so what they turn to is their radical left-wing conspirators in the fake news media.”
Patel also emphasized that the headlines calling President Trump a “dictator” is the last thing in the Democrat’s arsenal.
“I think one of the fears I’m hearing … is that they understand that hey, we have the receipts,” Bannon said.
“We know exactly what they did. We know exactly who did it. We’ve sent them the letters to say, ‘Hold your papers, don’t destroy your emails, don’t destroy your servers.'”
Patel chimed in, saying, “The Left and the radical left-wing media are running away from” evidence.
“They don’t like it. They’ve never had accountability, and this is why they’re in panic mode,” he added.
“Now they’re actually saying, the left is saying, Donald Trump is going to dare to use the DOJ and FBI to act out acts of political vengeance,” Patel said.
“The only difference is the left knows they’re the ones that broke the law,” he added.
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