Steve Bannon said GOP ‘shock troops’ would be ready to take over state: NBC

• Steve Bannon said “shock troops” should be ready to take control of the state when the next GOP chairman takes office.
• Former Donald Trump adviser predicted a landslide victory for MAGA politics in the next election.
• Bannon said Donald Trump’s agenda has been delayed by the challenges of having to fill federal roles.

Steve Bannon said “shock troops” must be ready to take control and “deconstruct” the state when the next Republican president is elected, according to reports.

Bannon made the comments during a phone call to NBC News following reports he met with Trump appointees on Wednesday to discuss how they might help the next Republican president.

“If you want to take control of the administrative state and deconstruct it, then you have to have shock troops ready to take it back immediately,” Bannon told NBC. “I gave them fire and brimstone.”

Bannon, who led Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and then served as an adviser to the president, told NBC he wanted to see pre-trained teams ready to enter federal agencies when the next Republican president takes office.

He said Trump’s agenda has been delayed by challenges of quickly filling around 4,000 federal agency positions, NBC said.

“We’re going to have a landslide victory in 2022, and that’s just the preamble to a landslide victory in 2024, and this time we’re going to be ready – and have a MAGA perspective, MAGA policies, not standard Republican policies.” , Bannon said at the point of sale.

MAGA is a reference to Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan. Bannon described an election victory in 2024 as a “second term” for Trump, NBC reported.

The launch party at the Capitol Hill Club on Wednesday where Bannon spoke was hosted by a new organization called the Association of Republican Presidential Appointees, NBC said.

It aims to be a resource for future GOP officials to tap into to fill federal jobs quickly, the outlet reported.

About 200 former officials from various Republican administrations attended, a person at the event told NBC.

“There are so many laws and regulations as well as agency and departmental policies. It can be very overwhelming when you first walk in,” Jeffrey Scott Shapiro, one of the group’s organizers, told NBC. .

“It is an organization which has a very narrow, clear and indispensable purpose, and, once it is operational, I think it could do a lot of good not only for the Republican Party but for the country.”