Bannon Fires Up ‘Shock Troops’ for Next GOP President

“Scores of former Trump political appointees gathered at a GOP social club Wednesday night to hear Steve Bannon detail how they could help the next Republican president reconfigure government,” NBC News reports.

Said Bannon: “If you’re going to take over the administrative state and deconstruct it then you have to have shock troops prepared to take it over immediately. I gave ’em fire and brimstone.”

“Bannon, who ran former President Donald Trump’s first campaign and later worked as a top adviser in the White House, said that Trump’s agenda was delayed by the challenges of quickly filling roughly 4,000 slots for presidential appointees at federal agencies and the steep learning curve for political officials who were new to Washington.”