Donald Trump's nomination as the Republican presidential nominee could be stolen by establishment conservatives, a close Trump adviser has warned.
Speaking exclusively to GB News, Stephen Bannon said supporters of Nikki Haley, a former opponent of President Trump, could try to “steal Trump's nomination”.
Bannon said: “As we're talking here today, Nikki Haley is pointing out that she's got 15 to 18 percent of the vote. They're going to the convention.”
“They think they have a plan like Cruz had in 2016 to try to steal the nomination from Trump at the convention that he should win in a landslide.”
The former presidential adviser said another “more likely” scenario could be that he “causes enough of a stir with his blog to sit there and force her out.” [Haley] on the ticket as vice president, of which she will then think I will be prime minister.”
Bannon warned that Haley would position himself as a “Dick Chaney in his own right [Trump’s] the impotent and lame duck George Bush”.
“That's where the shots are, that's where the conservatives are. The Tories have been a plague.”
“And the reason is that they're conservatives, they just talked about the principles of conservatism. They don't realize that you have to fight for those values as well.”
“If you think he was robbed of a second term in 2020, he was robbed of his first term. I was there every day. The Republicans were there [who said they] they were not going to build [the wall].”
“This is Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, 'We're not going to put money on the wall.'
Donald Trump will secure the Republican nomination for president in July at the Republican convention in Michigan.
Similarly, President Biden is expected to become the Democratic nominee at their convention in Chicago in August.
Discussing the failures of Trump's first term as president, Bannon admitted that he has a “different house style than President Trump.
He said, “I want to get up on the grills and fight. President Trump, being the president of all the people, said, hey, maybe we can work together. These things would happen over time.”
“Now he knows, and I think the revelation for him is that you can't work [that way].”
“It's not about being Republicans and Democrats. It's not about being Labor and Conservative. All these are handles of the politics of the 20th century”.
“Either you are a nationalist and sovereignist or you are a globalist. Either you're an elite globalist or you're a populist nationalist.”
“This is the breakdown of politics. I know he understands.”
In his exclusive one-hour session with GB News America, Bannon also warned of a possible third world war and blasted the Conservative Party as left-wing “liars”.
The former Trump adviser and current radio host said if Britain continued on its current path: “You will have a revolution, and that revolution will be a violent revolution.”
Bannon continued: “The lifestyle in London isn't too shabby, is it? For the elites of the world. Going to Belgravia, going to the West End of London.
“But you look at the countryside, at the industrial cities that have built, possibly in the 20th century, the greatest nation on earth, and a nation that did more for literacy and to spread wealth than any nation on earth.” .
“And look what the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of those people have. They have nothing. It's outrageous.”
Bannon said that if there is “a restructuring of the British economic system, not to socialism, but to a more entrepreneurial capitalism away from what you have now”, then there could be a revolution.
He described the current system as “late-stage finance capitalism in the City of London, late-stage capitalism and now becoming techno-feudalism”.
“Just like in the United States, we cannot continue down this unsustainable path of just this federal spending to keep the system propped up.”
“It has to end, or we're going to end up in a terrible situation.”