Bannon`s War Room
Episode 4995: Suing Colorado For The Freedom Of Tina Peters; Send In The National Guard To Savannah
13 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
exhorting his colleagues this year. He said, do not anticipate what a dictator wants and accede to it in advance. Do not obey in advance. Whenever you see those words, do not obey in advance, you are seeing Tim Snyder's ideas at work in the world. And that admonition has wormed its way into all of our consciences, right? Start by not giving in. Lesson one.
One of the other things I'm going to talk about with Tim tonight is another one of his lessons that sometimes comes to me in the middle of the night, which is his lesson 18. And that is, be calm when the unthinkable arrives. Tim Snyder somehow got that essential idea down to six words. Be calm when the unthinkable arrives. It now lives in my brain every day.
And it lives in the world as unforgettable guidance for anybody who does have a tyrannical nightmare unfolding where they live.
What do you think that our national reaction should be to those prosecutions and relatedly to the administration's efforts to characterize all these overwhelmingly nonviolent protests against them as if they're all riots and they're all constructed, nefarious, criminal, dangerous things?
Yeah, I mean, we should all know, and I'm sure we all do know, that this is how authoritarian regimes react to any kind of physical opposition. You get characterized as terrorists and criminals and foreigners and so on. This is absolutely authoritarianism 101, and we should help make sure that in sensitive issues like this,
The media don't just repeat what the leaders say, because when they repeat it, they normalize it. A second thing is to make sure that we have the positive language on our side, that we recollect that not only in this country, but pretty much everywhere, there isn't progress towards these things that we like to call freedom and justice and democracy without some friction. It just never happened.
Like from every moment, your preferred moment in American history, whatever it is, the women's suffrage movement, the civil rights movement, whatever it is, there's friction. There is always friction. And so we have to have the positive language. The third thing is we have to help people be heroes. Nobody's a hero on their own.
Like, somebody does a little courageous thing, but the people who make them heroes are the ones who donate to their legal defense, the ones who write the articles about them, the ones who celebrate those little acts of courage. That is on us to do, because you mentioned a lot, a number of people, but there are more people who could be mentioned, right? And we need to prop them up.
And the final thing I think, legally, and I'm just talking to all you lawyers out there, because this is Chicago, and like a lot of you are going to be lawyers, we... We have to go on the offensive legally. We can't just keep waiting for them to sue us and prosecute us.
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Chapter 2: What are the implications of President Trump's pardon for Tina Peters?
But it's also a port city, Steve. It's a big port of entry into the United States. It's a big tourist destination, huge military presence. I think this is a coordinated attack. Where do you get this kind of chemical to give to a guy to throw on a white woman in the park? Forsyth Park is a beautiful area. But look, we have massive shootings. We have tourists being attempted rapes.
We have huge drug issues, home invasions. Oglethorpe Mall, massive shooting recently where a woman ran out because of the shooting, had a heart attack and died in the parking lot. We got gang warfare. This is right straight up of what President Trump is going after. And we really need to pay attention to this because it's a national security issue more than just a tourist issue.
You said, you know, we just had Ben Burke on yesterday talking about Minneapolis versus New Orleans. New Orleans is what, you know, got the national, they're trying to shut things down, support ICE, et cetera. Is the prosecutor, what you're saying, he's sending a letter to the president of the United States requesting the National Guard there?
Why are local Georgia officials up to the state level? Why is there not more movement? And why is the media not looking at these different attacks that happen in and pulling them together is that, hey, there's something serious going on here and something much more evil than just random occurrences of violence.
Chapter 3: How does the legal system respond to presidential pardons?
Georgia is the epicenter of everything, Steve. It was one of the states in 2020 that was a huge issue. Fulton County, they still haven't provided the ballots. Harmeet Dhillon just sued for the voter registration logs. They still haven't provided them. Raffensperger is preventing this. Kemp is preventing this. Kemp is, in my view, in bed with a lot of the globalist actors. He goes to Davos often.
This is a globalist government in Savannah, and it's purposely allowing this crime to develop out of control. It's an incredibly beautiful place, and we have to prevent this. And I heard a citizen this morning who called me, we're becoming New Orleans. We can't let that happen. So there's just massive importance behind protecting this incredibly beautiful city.
I'm going to ask you to stick around because you've got some thoughts. I'm about to get into some economics here. And I know you're a former bond trader. I want to get you back in here. But before I let you bounce for this segment, tell me about the woman. She had acid thrown in her face. Her in the hospital bed looks horrific. Her whole face is bandaged. I mean, how bad is this?
Steve, it's 50% of her body. Her phone and clothes were melting, I'm told. I mean, this is not a random chemical the guy got out of Wal-Mart. I mean, this is something I think that was provided to shut down tourism in this city. I mean, you can't imagine the pain this woman's going through and the reaction in the town. I mean, people, we have the Georgia Record, georgiarecord.com.
Go there if you're interested in Georgia. We have people calling us all night long. You have to do something. You have to get this out. So we got the story national. It was on the local news. but we broke it nationally and it has to be paid attention to because this is, you know where this goes. It leads to what's happening in New York and other cities across the country.
And particularly in Chicago, we started with Rachel Maddow mocking people because the National Guard's been pulled back. Todd, why don't you hang on a minute? I'm going to get you back in here in a second on some other topics. And Grace and Mo, if you can make sure we take this story from the record, Georgia record, and push it hard. This is a national story. Like Todd just said, breaking news.
The prosecutor's drafting a letter. They sent it to the president of the United States to request the National Guard be sent into Savannah because of this out of control nature of things. OK, I want to pivot for a moment. We're going to bring a bunch of people in here, kind of weave things together on the economy and capital markets. But I want to start with David Malpass.
David, you were one of the top most senior executives in the Treasury Department under President Trump. You're head of the former head of the World Bank. You've been putting up some stuff that I think people understand that's not getting enough coverage in the business media. There's a whole apparatus.
And the Federal Reserve, as Scott Besson said a couple of months ago, it's completely out of control with Powell. Tell me what's happened here in the last couple of days. I think only you've brought up of how they're trying to thwart really President Trump's nationalist economic plan, sir.
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