"We, nationalists and populists, believe in alliances and want partners with a strong national foundation. We like Viktor Orbán, the French (formerly) National Front, or the British Nigel Farage. We hope that they can make their country as strong as Viktor Orbán made Hungary," Bannon said.
A triple victory was celebrated at last week's gala of the New York Young Republican Club, after the majority of the House of Representatives and the Senate came together in addition to the election of Donald Trump as president. Conservatives have also gained a majority in the Supreme Court, which could initiate profound changes that could determine the development path of the United States for decades.
Steve Bannon, Donald Trump's former top White House adviser, was released from prison in October after spending four months for refusing to appear before a congressional hearing. Bannon was the star guest and keynote speaker of the gala, who said in an interview with Kossuth Radio that he was very enthusiastic that President Trump won by a landslide.
"There are huge problems in the United States, and the Biden system only makes the situation more difficult. It has brought the possibility of World War III upon us, the situation in the Middle East has deteriorated, and fifteen million illegal immigrants have arrived in the US and must be deported. Also, the national debt increased to 36-37 thousand billion dollars, which continues to increase by a thousand billion dollars every hundred days. These are huge problems and President Trump has to deal with them all at once,” he pointed out.
Bannon said: there is always defiance in it, because you have to fight.
"Just look at Viktor Orbán's situation in Hungary: they are fighting against him, it doesn't matter how successful he is politically or what results he can show. They are trying to break it from Brussels, Davos or even from the financial center of London. So we know that every day is about the struggle, the struggle. We are far from turning things around in the United States, but here is the opportunity, because Donald Trump has shown that it is politically possible. Every day brings new battles to transform our country”.
Bannon sees his own role in the next four years as follows:
– I continue my own show, Headquarters, on social media. Our audience is huge, they are the backbone of the pro-Trump movement. Among them were the most committed volunteers during the election, who went door-to-door campaigning in Pennsylvania, for example, and did the job honorably. We need to support President Trump because there is a huge fight ahead in Congress as well, and our support will be greatly needed in the various struggles.
Bannon also said that he considers himself a political prisoner, having spent four months in prison for a minor act.
"In a prison that has been in operation since 1935, and where no one has been imprisoned for such a trivial offense as mine in the last nearly one hundred years. I owe all of this to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Democrat), she put me in there because she thought she could break it that way. However, I came out of there even stronger and much more collected, which contributed to the fact that we were able to mobilize 55 million people on election day. And former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is also in trouble in her own party, as she is blamed for the Democrats' nomination of Kamala Harris," he added.
When asked if he sees a chance to eliminate division in the United States, Bannon said no.
"Reconciliation can be brought about by our victory, or by winning more victories. The rest doesn't matter. The other side (the Democratic Party - ed.) only talks about papal unity, but only because they don't want to be knocked down, and it's not really in our interest to form a unity with them. The Democrats have started the country down a very dangerous path, a slope that will lead to the destruction of the American republic. We will support President Donald Trump in achieving his political goals. I also believe there will be investigations and prosecutions of people who have been associated with Biden, some of whom deserve jail time. So unity is not in our interest, our only interest is victory," he said.
When asked if he sees a chance for international cooperation among conservatives, Steve Bannon gave the following answer:
"Not only among conservatives, but in a broader sense, we, nationalists and populists, believe in alliances and want partners with a strong national foundation. We like Viktor Orbán, the French (formerly) National Front, or the British Nigel Farage. We hope that they can make their country as strong as Viktor Orbán made Hungary. And the United States will always be there to make trade agreements, to make partnerships, alliances in any form. However, we do not want to be included in II. to the world order established after World War II, where the social elite owns all the wealth, while the working people and the soldiers who die on the battlefield get nothing.
There is the terrible situation in Ukraine, about which Viktor Orbán and we were both right. I said from the beginning that hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians would end up dead and a destroyed country. And it's all thanks to the unabashed globalist Europeans who, through their declarations, have made it possible for Ukrainians to embark on this horrible path and experience destruction.
In the end, Donald Trump will have to clean up the pile of rubble".
Steve Bannon is optimistic that President Trump will be able to find a solution to the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, or that he will be able to deport the fifteen million illegal immigrants, or that he will be able to get the American economy back on track. “I'm basically an optimist, but President Trump has a pretty big ax to grind,” he said.
Cover photo: Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Steve Bannon
Source: MTI/Prime Minister's Press Office/Zoltán Fischer
