Far-right extremist and former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon has issued a threat to the director of the National Institutes of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci, and his family, as well as FBI director Christopher Wray, saying they are going to “be hunted” and “suffer” after the midterm elections next month.
“On 8 November, when we destroy the Democratic party as a national political institution and really end the regime, the hunted become the hunters. The whole Fauci family is going to be welcome to the investigations. The entire family,” Bannon said on his War Room podcast on Sunday.
“Remember, War Room was taken off Twitter because of comments I made about, wait for it, [FBI director] Christopher Wray and Anthony Fauci that their day was coming… they took the War Room account off Twitter. Paybacks across the board on all that, a big move,” Bannon said in his podcast.
Bannon’s comments against Fauci and Wray come just days after a federal judge in Washington sentenced him to four months in jail and fined him $6,500 for criminal contempt of Congress stemming from his refusal to obey a subpoena from the House’s January 6 select committee.
Fauci, who is set to step down soon, had faced a slew of attacks from Bannon and several other right-wing commentators during the Covid pandemic.
Right before the 2020 election, Bannon said a second term for Donald Trump should start by displaying the severed heads of Dr. Fauci and Director Wray on the White House “as a warning”.
“Now I actually want to go a step farther, but I realize the president is a kind-hearted man and a good man,” Bannon said at the time. “I’d actually like to go back to the old times of Tudor England, I’d put the heads on pikes, right, I’d put them at the two corners of the White House as a warning to federal bureaucrats. You either get with the program or you’re gone – time to stop playing games.”
Watch Bannon’s rant below:
Bannon today: “On 8 Nov, when we destroy the Dem Party as a national political institution and end the regime, the hunted become the hunters. The whole Fauci family – welcome to the investigations. Paybacks across the board.” pic.twitter.com/gPUPZ7oE2y
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) October 24, 2022
