'A Hot Mess': Bannon Has Had It With 'Loser' Speaker Mike Johnson
Louisiana Rep. Mike Johnson's Speakership already seems to be in peril. The Freedom Caucus is nipping at his heels for not inflicting enough pain with the looming shutdown just seven days away. Parts of the federal government will shut down if a deal or a continuing resolution (CR) isn't signed into law ASAP. However, members of the Chaos Crew want to see everything burned to the ground, so that's a problem. And behind the scenes is former Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, an individual who likes to break things.
" I can't take anymore," Bannon said on his podcast. "I can't take anymore. So Johnson's now committed to five or six different alternatives. Right? Every time he gets in a room, he commits to something."
"Yo, dude," Bannon said later. "I wouldn't be so confident of anything right now. You're a mess. You're a hot mess."
Bannon thinks Johnson lacks courage.
"Courage. Courage. And courage means in the defining moment, you have to step into conflict," he said. "Dude, you're just a wimp. It's not hacking it. The country's in a crisis."
"You got all the leverage in the world if you have the titanium stones to say, hey, guess what, Biden? If you're going to have an invasion on the border, if you're going to spend money like crazy, If you're going to do this, hey, your illegitimate regime is going to shut down," he insisted. "You can suck on this because we are the House of Representatives, and I am Speaker of that House, empowered by the Constitution of the United States and the founding fathers of this nation."