What Trump's gonna do is just declare victory, right?
He's like declare victory, but that doesn't mean he's the winner,
he's just gonna say he's the one.
>> That was leaked audio of Steve Bannon from October 20th of 2020.
Laying out Trump's plan to falsely declare victory no
matter what the results of the election are.
And Bannon explains how exactly this plot would play out,
how it would work out in Trump's favor.
Let's listen.
>> More of our people vote early that count, there's voted mail.
And so they're gonna have a natural disadvantage and
Trump's gonna take advantage of.
That's our strategy is gonna clear himself a winner.
So when you wake up Wednesday morning, it's gonna be a firestorm.
We're gonna have antifa crazy, the media crazy, the courts are crazy.
And Trump's gonna be there sitting there mocking, tweeting out, you lose.
I'm the winner, I'm the king.
>> So that was part of Bannon's big brain plot to essentially
steal the election from the rightful winner, Joe Biden.
And at that time assuming Biden wins.
And it is interesting, that he assumed Biden would win.
>> Yeah.
Well, that's interesting that they assume and
he at least seems to understand like the red mirage.
That whole thing that we spent literally months trying to get the country
to understand what would happen and they all pretended that they didn't.
But also that when he's talking behind the scenes to whoever
it was that thought his jokes were funny there.
He doesn't even pretend like they're supposed to pretend that
something corrupt happened, but Trump really did win.
They just, it was stolen, he doesn't even pretend that.
He's very clear no like yeah they're gonna win and we're gonna steal it anyway.
The only thing where he was really wrong was antifa is gonna be crazy.
The courts are going crazy.
The media was no stuff was crazy for months after election.
It wasn't antifa in the courts, it was Trump's legal team, Trump's tweets.
You guys all of you were crazy.
The mobs were crazy.
>> Yeah, the mobs were absolutely crazy.
I mean we saw what that looked like on January 6th.
But to your point about the courts,
remember the Trump camp challenged the results of the election and alleged
there was widespread voter fraud in 61 court battles and they lost 60 of them.
Okay.
And there you know why, cuz there was no evidence of widespread voter fraud.
>> Well, that really made it unfair.
>> Super hard to win those cases then, I feel for them.
>> Look, this makes it clear like there are allegations of voter fraud.
We already knew know it was BS.
But like this leaked audio makes it clear that like Bannon expected Biden to win.
And they were gonna lie and
do whatever they could to steal the election in their favor, no matter what.
Yeah and
this is like out of everything that we've seen attempted by the Trump camp.
This was definitely attempted, it didn't work obviously, but
this was like the genius idea that genius Steve Bannon had in mind, right?
Just say that you won anyway.
I'm really smart- >> Just tweet about it and you win.
>> It's just so stupid.
There have been multiple profiles.
I think one of the more recent ones was in the New York if I'm not mistaken,
on Steve Bannon and they can't stop calling him smart.
He's a bad guy and everything.
Yeah, but he's super smart.
Is he smart?
This was his strategy?
Just say that you won.
[LAUGH] >> I don't know.
>> God, like bloated,
weirdo who somehow thinks that he's like part of the best race.
Look at that guy.
You think you're on top?
>> I don't know.
>> Anyway, let's continue.
The pre-election audio by the way comes from Mother Jones, they obtained it.
Here's what we know about it.
The pre-election audio comes from a meeting between Bannon and a half dozen
supporters of an exiled Chinese mogul for whom Bannon has been working.
Bannon also helped this guy with a series of pro-Trump Chinese-language news
websites that have promoted an array of far-right misinformation,
including a video streaming site called GTV.
The meeting was intended to help GTV plan its election night coverage, right?
So this exiled gentleman, I think lives in the United States now.
Gu wang wei is his name.
Now that was not the only plot to help Trump win the elections.
Here's more on how he directly helped sabotage Joe Biden's campaign.
Bannon met with this Guo guy with his associates.
And it occurred a few weeks after Bannon working with Giuliani had
provided the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop to the New York post.
Bannon acknowledged in a recording that he had also helped
supply Guo's supporters with this material.
He then directed his backers to put sex videos and
other salacious content from the laptop online.
Let's just address that real quick.
I don't know if you guys have seen those Hunter Biden videos on Twitter.
Why is the right wing trying to make Hunter Biden look cool?
>> I don't know.
Have you noticed that?
>> They're very obsessed with seeing him naked, I have noticed that.
>> They are obsessed with seeing him naked.
>> But like what are the more recent ones has like a pretty dope rap song behind it?
Like it looks like a music video.
I'm like I don't know if this is really doing what you guys think it's doing,
but okay.
>> Yeah. And
we're obviously being dismissive if he had any attachment to American politics,
we would care, he has nothing to do with it.
He's apparently troubled guy for legitimate reasons and
also gets up to stuff that conservatives would consider like risque.
Neither of those [CROSSTALK] he does occasionally have,
neither of those have anything to do with American politics.
He wasn't having meetings in Trump tower with like Russian exiles in whatever,
he's not doing business deals to set up Biden tower in Moscow.
Like find some attached he's not giving campaign speeches even shallow stuff,
he has nothing to do with any of it.
>> No I love you guys like just take this in, the story is amazing, okay?
Bannon's big brained strategy was number one,
just declare that you won and then that's it.
If you declare it then it means you won, right?
That was strategy number one, failed.
What a genius.
Strategy number two, put out there that
Joe Biden's son was addicted to drugs and had sex.
And put together these really fun looking like music video type,
tweets that will do what?
No one cares like people will care if like you mentioned
Hunter Biden has any political power or any influence over
policies that impact our daily lives, he doesn't.
>> Well, the right wing like they try to get worked up over the Hunter Biden stuff,
but that's just projection they know how bad the Trump kids stuff is.
They know that Trump kids were literally working in the White house.
They know that people like Jared Kushner went off and
got billions of dollars handed to them, specifically because of their attachment
to the former president and they just want there to be.
What about racism in that area?
And it just hasn't stuck.
And all these plans, just bear in mind whether Trump's just gonna tweet or
Hunter Biden's d or like whether we're gonna throw it back to the say
all this stuff that they tried to do to take over the country.
All Trump had to do was suck a little bit less as president, that's it.
It was a very close election in part because Biden is a really weak candidate.
In part because the Democrats didn't really do much to give people a reason
to believe that they would do anything in office and they made good on that,
they haven't really done much.
Also the country's ridiculously gerrymandered,
there's a lot of voter suppression.
All he needed to do was like maybe take the pandemic a little bit seriously.
Not even totally seriously, a little bit, he could have legitimately won
the election, but he wasn't willing to do any of that.
It would be so easy with how rigged this system is for
them to stay in power forever.
If they could even pretend to give a damn about the American people.
>> They can't do it though.
>> And so instead they have to do coups.
>> Look, we talk about incentive structures, right?
And right now the way our government is set up,
incentivizes the worst people to seek power.
Because what Congress, for instance, messages to the American people
right now is you might come in as an affluent person if you're lucky,
you might get elected into Congress.
But you get to trade individual stocks based on insider
information without any consequences.
So you'll come out as a millionaire, you'll also probably get to take advantage
of that revolving door and make a ton of money as a lobbyist.
The incentive structure is screwed up, it attracts the worst people to run for
Congress.
And I think the same thing can be said of the executive branch, especially
with Donald Trump using the office of the presidency to enrich himself,
to direct federal taxpayer money to his businesses.
So that's really the problem.
Look, there are tons of bad people out there.
The question is how do we change our system?
How do we change our government?
How do we reform it?
So, government doesn't attract the worst people among us, but
we're not having that conversation.
And I think that's the problem.