Former White House adviser Steve Bannon backed President Trump’s “doctrine” as Taiwanese voters rejected Chinese authoritarianism and pro-democracy protests continue to rage in Iran and Hong Kong and advised the president to delay his State of the Union address until after he is cleared in the Senate impeachment trial.
“This is the Trump Doctrine, whether it’s in Hong Kong, or at the ballot box in Taiwan, or the streets of Tehran,” said Bannon. “President Trump has stood up to the Chinese Communist Party, the dictators in Beijing, he stood up to the mullahs in Tehran.”
Speaking with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures, Bannon, 66, claimed that Trump’s vision of foreign policy is at odds with establishment politicians in Washington, D.C.
“What President Trump did is go against the established order,” remarked Bannon. “The permanent political class’s foreign policy was to appease these dictators, to appease Beijing, and that’s why saw the rise of China. To appease the mullahs in Iran, and that’s why you saw this expansion of Iran with Hezbollah throughout the Middle East.
“Donald Trump said, ‘This is not going to happen on my watch,'” Bannon continued. “He’s taken a very Churchillian stand, like Churchill took in the 1930s. It’s the permanent political class, and the John Kerrys, the Hillary Clintons, the foreign policy establishment, the Neville Chamberlains, they were the appeasers. He went to economic war.”
The host of the podcast War Room also suggested House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other top Democrats are attempting to “slow-walk” Trump’s Senate impeachment trial, equating their efforts to the “crime of the century.”
“Two reasons Nancy Pelosi slow-walked this: One was to find more evidence because they didn’t have it and they’re afraid the guns are going to be turned back on them for a weak case. The second was to make sure she could bigfoot President Trump’s State of the Union. That’s why she slow-walked this whole thing.”
Bannon also suggested that Trump wants to call former Vice President Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden, Pelosi, and Democratic California Rep. Adam Schiff to testify before the Senate because the people of America and the world are eager to see “if the established order” can back him down.
“The reason [Trump] called for an expanded witness list was he understands that the jury is not the Senate, the jury is the American people, but the audience is the world. They’re watching on the streets of Taipei, they’re watching in Hong Kong, they’re watching in Tehran, they’re watching to see if the established order can back down Donald Trump.”
Bannon said Trump will be found not guilty in the Senate’s “trial of the century” and should reschedule the Feb 4. State of the Union until after the trial has ended so he can address the American public on his terms.
“He has to be acquitted; he will be acquitted and exonerated. That should happen, and then he should do the State of the Union,” added Bannon.
