Steve Bannon, President-elect Trump’s onetime White House adviser and a conservative media personality, said if confirmed to be attorney general, former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) would go after media outlets.
Bannon singled out MSNBC, the cable news channel owned by Comcast, a company Trump himself has threatened to investigate over what he says is “treasonous” critical coverage of him.
“The American people weighed in measure and you were inundated for years. [Andrew] Weissmann, you were on TV with MSNBC and all the producers, MSNBC. Preserve your documents. Ari Melber and all you hosts. Preserve your documents. All of it,” Bannon said on his “War Room” podcast. Weissman, a former federal prosecutor who was a member member of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia interference in the 2016 election, is a legal analyst for MSNBC. Melber is its chief legal analyst and a host.
Bannon accused the cable channel of trying “to destroy Trump.”
“You try to imprison Trump, You try to break Trump. He’s not breakable. You couldn’t destroy him. And now he has turned on you. And he’s put a firebrand in charge of main justice, Department of Justice. And you’re going to have to live with it,” he continued.
The firebrand commentator’s remarks were first highlighted by Mediate.
Bannon was recently released from prison after serving a four-month sentence for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.
