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Steve Bannon: “Mitch McConnell said in this interview that we're in as…”

Featuring: Steve Bannon, Former White House Chief Strategist | National

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Steve Bannon | Getting America First Done | NatCon 5

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… 1949, as Joe McCarthy tells us, General Marshall and other Communists in the State Department essentially turned the country over to the Chinese Communist Party. Mitch McConnell came out, and Mitch McConnell said in this interview that we're in as dangerous a period as the 1930s. Right, the 1930s. And he blamed it on Trump's tariffs, on Trump's tariffs, Trump's tariffs, Trump's America first policies, and particularly regarding Ukraine. Nothing could be farther from the truth. (01:51–02:00)

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Asserts Mitch McConnell compared the current period to the 1930s in terms of danger.

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