Former White House chief advisor and current “War Room” host Steve Bannon called for the complete dismantling of the FBI while speaking at the Turning Point USA conference on Saturday.
“We are not prepared to be governed by criminals. And we are going to purge DOJ. We’re going to take apart the FBI. The FBI, the American Gestapo,” an energetic Bannon told the Detroit crowd. “That building on Pennsylvania Avenue, we don’t need $400 million for a new headquarters. You’re not going to need a headquarters. You’re not going to be in the FBI. We’re going to get everybody out of that building. We’re going to take it down ugly slab by ugly slab. It’s the ugliest building on Pennsylvania Avenue. And we’re going to do what the Romans did to Carthage. We’re going to salt the earth around it so there’ll never be another building there again.”
Bannon — who was just told to report to federal prison for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the partisan January 6 committee — has repeatedly stated that he is not afraid of jail. In response to critics who claim that the FBI does important work on counterterrorism and other cases,