We told you we would report on when Steve Bannon spoke out on his messages in the Epstein files.
He has released a statement.
WarRoom host and former Trump White House Chief Strategist Stephen K. Bannon has addressed his appearance in the Jeffrey Epstein files and confirmed the upcoming release of a documentary on the deceased pedophile. Bannon, an America First stalwart, exchanged many texts with Epstein in the months before his death in federal custody in 2019, as he was preparing a documentary on him.
“I am a filmmaker and TV host with decades of experience interviewing controversial figures,” Bannon said of the exchanges in comments to the press.
“That’s the only lens through which these private communications should be viewed—a documentary filmmaker working, over a period of time, to secure 50 hours of interviews from a reclusive subject,” he continued, adding that his documentary would be released later in 2026 and “destroy the very myths [Epstein] created.”
I’m not sure this is going to stop the controversy surrounding the messages.
Had the released messages been Epstein and him talking about larger subjects maybe this would line up. The issue is that some of the conversations were directly about Trump. Not entirely sure how seemingly attacking Trump falls into what Bannon is saying here.
As we said in our article yesterday, the theory that makes the most sense to me is quite simple.
Trump fires Bannon and publicly calls him out.
Republicans go on to lose the House in the 2018 midterms.
Bannon loses faith that the Trump administration will survive with the House run by Democrats.
Bannon realizes he was wrong and goes full into backing him in early 2020 again.
