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Steve Bannon: “Bolsonaro is up, I think 15 or 20 points on Lula.”

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Published April 8, 2025 | Video Starts at 54:46

And remember Trump comes through being indicted 92 times for 372 years in prison of which they wanted him to not imprison him, they wanted him to die in prison. Bolsonaro is up, I think 15 or 20 points on Lula. In Brazil, they have Bolsonaro's on trial for his life in a show trial that's every bit as bad as Moscow in 1935. (54:46–54:48)

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Asserts that Bolsonaro is leading Lula by 15 or 20 points in Brazil.

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“The gross interest charges now on just our debt is $1.4 trillion.”
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“Between January of 2021, when Biden took office, in January of 2025, when Trump returned, 10 million illegal alien invaders came across the…”
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“In Christmas of 19 we had virtually no inflation, lowest interest rates you ever had exploding growth explode, 3 1/2% growth.”
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“There's no evidence when Trump did this the first time, not a scintilla evidence from the largest partner we buy from on, on finished goods…”
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“We essentially I think went to economic War with the Chinese Communist Party yesterday.”
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“These tariffs I think could put Xi out of business.”
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“President Trump's adamant if you bring the tariffs down, and particularly on reciprocity, you bring the non tariff barriers, which is really…”
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“We have a trillion dollar defense bill.”
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“We're underwriting the security of Western Europe, of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf Emirates of, around the South China Sea and the Straits…”
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“We have trade deficits basically with every part of the. You go around the, the horn, around the rim of the Eurasian land mass. We have…”
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“Reagan and Thatcher were neoliberal neocons, okay. At that time in trying to take on the Soviet Union.”
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“We've been underwriting your defense since World War II and we're kind of underwriting your prosperity.”
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“The European elites are total and complete deadbeats.”
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“You actually realized we have to get to 2 to 2% or 2 and a half percent, which none of you did.”
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“If you took the United States out of Western Europe today, militarily, the whole thing would collapse.”
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“We have a trillion dollar defense budget and we got to cut the defense budget.”
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“We have a 2 trillion dollar deficit every year.”
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“The EU was the first to start bitching and moaning about the tariffs.”
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“President Trump's a real estate guy, you know, back rent. Oh, by the way, you haven't. This was in 2017. Your four years arrears are not me…”
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“A country that has $2 trillion deficit and at that time 32 or $33 trillion in face amount of debt.”
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“You're a protectorate, just like Saudi Arabia in the, in the Gulf.”
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“The strategic heartland of America, is actually the Pacific, the vast Pacific.”
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