By Glynn Wilson –

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Next to Donald Trump himself, the guy who belongs high on the list of those who should be behind bars for threatening democracy itself and screwing up the world is Steve Bannon. He helped Trump get elected in the final months of the presidential election in 2016 by mining user data on millions of Facebook users and using social media to demonize Hillary Clinton and portray Trump as a highly successful billionaire businessman, which we now know to be a huge lie.

Bannon was headed to prison for fraud for pocketing over $1 million in a fake fund raiser to allegedly help raise money for building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, before Trump pardoned him in his final month in office in 2020.

The Select House Committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol referred Bannon to the U.S. Department of Justice for prosecution for being in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena and failing to cooperate with the investigation, and a jury found Bannon guilty.

Yet Bannon has still not served a night in jail, and just got around to filing his appeal in that case this week.

Trump ally Steve Bannon appeals conviction in Jan. 6 committee contempt case

Bannon, 69, was convicted in July 2022 of two counts of contempt of Congress and later sentenced that October to four months in prison. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointed judge, put the sentence on hold on appeal, later hinting in court documents he expected the case to be overturned.

As we’ve previously reported, Bannon has replaced Karl Rove as the go to strategist for Republicans these days, on speed dial with the likes of Glenn Youngkin of Virginia and anyone willing to run for a seat in Congress as a MAGA white nationalist and giddy supporter of Trump’s return to the presidential arena as the Republican nominee in 2024.

So as retired former Washington Post editor Marty Baron recommended recently in a book event in LA, we believe it is paramount that the American people understand the threat Trump and Bannon represent in next year’s election.

Bannon has used Confederate code words linked to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln to describe what they are planning in the campaign and if Trump wins.

Describing a speech by the former president before his first criminal indictment, a critic of Trump and Bannon, who is back in Trump’s inner circle planning for Trump’s election campaign and what he will do if he wins, says Trump and Bannon used the phrase ‘Come Retribution’.

Addressing the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland back on March 6, Trump took aim at Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney then widely expected to bring charges over hush-money payments to the porn star Stormy Daniels, thereby making Trump the first former president to ever face a criminal indictment.

“I am your warrior; I am your justice,” Trump told his audience. “And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.”

“When I spoke with Bannon a few days later, he wouldn’t stop touting Trump’s performance,” Karl says, referring to it as his ‘Come Retribution’ speech.

“What I didn’t realize was that ‘Come Retribution’, according to some civil war historians, served as the code words for the Confederate Secret Service’s plot to take hostage – and eventually assassinate – President Abraham Lincoln,” Karl says, according to a review of the book just published in The Guardian.

The Emerging ‘Come Retribution’ if Trump Sidesteps Jail and Gets Elected President Again

This week, Bannon appeared on the final episode of ‘The Circus’ podcast talking about Trump’s record and plans for a second term.

He called Trump a “badass” and claimed “the world fears him.”

When an interviewer summarized the top five things Trump is expected to do if reelected, including “firing the Deep State executive branch,” indicting the whole Biden family, deporting 10 million people including kids in cages, detaining Trump’s enemies at Gitmo and issuing a pardon to every Jan. 6 defendant, Bannon said a new Trump administration would do all five things.

“I think it’s fantastic,” Bannon said. “We’re going to start the largest deportation program in history. All 10 million must leave.”

Steve Bannon says Trump a ‘badass,’ and ‘world fears him’ in final ‘Circus’

So if that excites you, get busy working on the Trump reelection campaign. Otherwise, if it appalls you, maybe get to work on electing Democrats next year to take back the House, hold the Senate and the White House, and get the Supreme Court back from a majority of conservative Catholics who don’t seem to support democracy itself from the high court.

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