MAGA Blowhard Bannon Sabotages the Trump Agenda?

By Cliff Kincaid

January 2, 2025

Elon Musk has accused the media of “relentless hit pieces” that are designed to encourage the assassination of Trump “and now me.” These threats will continue and intensify, and many are now coming from MAGA over Musk’s defense of special high-tech visas for smart people from foreign countries.

Meantime, MAGA is assassinating itself, politically speaking.

My old friend John Gizzi, the White House correspondent for Newsmax, was on my Rumble show discussing why the Republican opponents of Speaker Mike Johnson have no alternative to him but nevertheless want to sabotage the slim GOP majority in the House. “Without a speaker,” notes Gizzi, “the House would be barred from officially certifying the results of the 2024 election.”

Gizzi says Johnson has made some mistakes and should be held accountable but in a column for Newsmax notes the slim Republican majority that must be maintained to pass a conservative agenda of economic progress.

MAGA blowhards like Stephen K. Bannon, who was fired by Trump during his first term, hates Johnson but has no alternative. He claims to be pro-MAGA but he is doing everything possible to undermine Trump’s MAGA agenda.

Trump endorses Johnson, calling him “a good, hard working, religious man” who “will do the right thing, and we will continue to WIN.”

In terms of real assassination attempts, which are on-going, Musk says he has faced at least two of them. One of these would-be assassins by the name of Paul Ryan Overeem had traveled from Florida to Austin, Texas, and was caught threatening to massacre Musk and others at a Tesla event.

The attacks on Musk have accelerated recently, as the liberal media and their allies in the Democratic Party have accused him of being a sinister force in the American political process and even a shadow president by making his views known on the current bankrupt financial and fiscal policies pursued by the Congress of the United States.

Whereas Trump was targeted by a “bullseye” issued by Biden and attacked as another Hitler, Musk is being labeled as a subversive force for exercising his First Amendment right of free speech and putting tens of millions of dollars into Republican campaigns in 2024.

Why is Musk a target? His conversion to the Republican Party is one factor. But as CNN admits, he is a “visionary” whose innovations have “revolutionized the e-commerce, electric vehicle and space industries…” More importantly, he bought Twitter, now X, giving conservatives a voice.

In contrast to left-wing billionaire George Soros, who made his money through financial manipulations of the international currency market, Musk provides goods and services that America needs.

The dangerous message was this: “Folks, please do not forget Musk is the CEO of several companies. I say again, he’s a CEO. Do with that information as you will,” some critic named Don Shea wrote on X, a post quicky deleted.

This was interpreted as an assassination threat, modeled after the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and the “wanted” posters for other CEOs posted afterward.

For being a successful capitalist, he is now a target.

In reviewing who or what on a global basis might have a motive to go after Musk, as well as Trump, my educated guess is the Russians, who are notorious in the field of “wet work,” or their clients, the Iranians, and those in the Deep State who would like to facilitate such actions.

Musk’s detractors are claiming he is too close to the Chinese and the Russians, even though his innovations have benefitted America.

For background on who might be motivated to kill Musk, consider the Bloomberg story from 2018, “How Elon Musk Beat Russia’s Space Program,” on how Musk had developed the most capable missile in the world through SpaceX.

Back in 2014, under President Barack Hussein Obama, as noted by the Washington Post, American national security satellites and classified military spacecraft were routinely launched into orbit with help from Russian rocket engines. That continued for more than a decade but was eventually banned after the first Russian invasion of Ukraine, also under Obama.

Today, as noted by the New York Times in a May 24, 2024, story, SpaceX is the primary provider of launch services to NASA and to the Pentagon.

In my column, “They Want to Kill Elon Musk,” I note the evidence of his genius and regard his involvement in the Trump Administration as “the key to America remaining a military and economic superpower in the world.”

However, Stephen K. Bannon, who was fired by Trump in his first term, has called Musk “a total and complete phony” and claims that because Musk produces some of his cars in China, “He is owned – lock, stock, and barrel – by the Chinese Communist Party, and he acts like it.”

This kind of ugly vitriol can inspire other attacks on Musk.

In response, Musk replied, “I used to think Bannon was smart & evil, but now I realize I was wrong about the first part.”

On his “Real America’s Voice” channel, Bannon has suggested that Musk’s business Neuralink is designed to control people’s brains through chip implants.

For his part, Musk believes advances in science and technology which can benefit Americans should be encouraged. His Neuralink project is developing means by which people can cope with their own neurological disorders and disabilities, such as paralysis and blindness.

Musk represents new thinking that can guarantee America’s scientific and military dominance in the world.

If you want more on the history of science and the new age we are entering into, consider reading Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

Popular procedures, such as knee and hip replacements, and some life-saving drugs, prolong life for millions of mostly older Americans. Dentures, hearing aids, reading glasses, and cataract surgeries are other modern examples of how science has been used to improve the human condition.

“He’s a character, he’s a special guy, he’s a super genius,” Trump said of Musk. “We have to protect our geniuses, we don’t have that many of them.”

In the second Trump term, Musk will deserve special protection, since he is a key figure in what Trump promises to be a “Golden Age” for America. But he won’t be able to accomplish anything for America unless a few Republicans in the House under the influence of MAGA blowhard Stephen K. Bannon stop sabotaging Trump’s choice for Speaker of the House.

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