Steve Bannon Issues Prediction on the Supreme Court During New Trump Term

In a fiery statement during his War Room podcast on Monday, Steve Bannon issued bold statements: not to approve federal judges before President-elect Donald Trump takes office and saying Republicans may get a 7-2 Supreme Court.

Bannon, who served as White House chief strategist in the early months of the first Trump administration, called on Republican senators to take immediate action by blocking any judicial appointments made by President Joe Biden. "

"We ain't going to approve one judge," he insisted. "No federal judges because guess what? CNN and MSNBC and Lawrence Tribe and all of it, we control the Supreme Court."

"And now, since we're going to block all the judges because you waited too long, you had all four years, you had time to do it, but you thought you were going to run the tables on us, you believed your own polling," he continued.

Bannon also claimed Trump could have appointed another Supreme Court Justice during his last term, but Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was "too arrogant" to step down when former president Barack Obama was in office.

Steve Bannon seen after his release from prison, at the Loews Regency Hotel on October 29, 2024, in New York City. Bannon issued a new prediction about the future of the Supreme Court during Donald...

"Now we're going to get all the judges," he said. "We're going to have a 7-2 Supreme Court, maybe hopefully one day 9-0."

"We're grabbing the institutions and taking power," the conservative host said. "You're not going to get your judges through. They're all going to be Trump judges."

"We got to purge the corruption," he added. "Maybe we got to get rid of the FBI and build another federal police force. Maybe we got to deconstruct a bunch of the CIA."

This is a developing story that will be updated with additional information.

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