Former White House strategist Steve Bannon was heard calling Hillary Clinton a crude name in a leaked recording discussing former President Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 election.
In the recording, taken during a meeting on Oct. 31, 2020, Bannon is heard discussing the coming election and comparing the Hunter Biden laptop controversy to WikiLeaks’s release of hacked Democratic emails in 2016, according to audio of the meeting obtained by Mother Jones.
“Even in ’16, people just had to make a decision,” Bannon was heard saying. “They didn’t like Trump, but they hated Clinton more. Why? When I came in, I’m the expert at driving negatives up. Right? I had been on 10 years on that b****. I just beat her. I just beat her every day, right?”
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Laughter from others in the meeting could be heard in the recording after Bannon’s comment on Clinton. Bannon was the CEO of Trump’s 2016 campaign in the final months.
Bannon told the news outlet that Trump proved everyone who doubted his victory “by running the most hard-hitting campaign in political history.”
“We killed off the Clinton Dynasty by beating her campaign day in and day out with unmatched passion and unrelenting intensity never seen before in American history,” he said.
Bannon was also heard claiming that Trump was planning to declare victory prematurely and was “just gonna walk in and go, ‘I’m the winner,’” according to the leaked audio.
On Nov. 4, 2020, Trump claimed he had won the presidential election, despite election results from states such as Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Georgia not being clear at the time of his declaration, according to Reuters.
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Bannon was found guilty on July 22 of contempt charges over his defiance of a House Jan. 6 committee subpoena. He is scheduled to be sentenced this October and faces up to a year in prison and a $100,000 fine per charge.
