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Steve Bannon expressed his opinion that the quick abandonment of attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz over sex allegations was a major blunder for the incoming administration.

The political strategist and staunch ally of President-elect Donald J. Trump said that had Gaetz still been under consideration he would now be the focus of media smears that are now directed at Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth.

On Friday’s edition of his “WarRoom” podcast, the former White House adviser said that if Gaetz wasn’t thrown overboard the sharks in the press wouldn’t be swarming Hegseth and would be too busy to unveil the inevitable soon-to-be-launched effort to discredit FBI Director nominee Kash Patel.

“This is Alinsky 101, cull them from the herd and pick them off,” he said, referring to radical leftist organizer Saul Alinsky. “We saw this in the first week with Matt Gaetz. I wish and I recommended Matt Gaetz stick the whole way. Why? Because if Matt Gaetz had still been in there and going through up to Christmas he’d be drawing so much fire because they would be freaking out he’d be attorney general.”

“He’d be drawing so much fire you wouldn’t even hear Pete Hegseth’s name,” Bannon continued. “Kash would be gliding into here. The media, and this is why the concept of contracts always flood the zone, there’s only so much they can handle. First of all, they’re not particularly bright. They’re not particularly hardworking. So you can overwhelm the system quite easily.”

“People say, Bannon, that’s so terrible, well, hey, that’s just it’s information warfare. They’re doing it all the time, nonstop, relentless,” he added. “Look at this propaganda they’re putting up on TV and you’ve gotta fight back.”

The smearing of Hegseth has been relentless as the corrupt establishment is furiously resisting reform, deploying its media slime machine to roll sleazy allegations out like an assembly line with the latest being that the Fox News commentator is a drunk with the obvious intent being to force him to withdraw or give disloyal Senate Republicans the excuse to refuse to confirm him.

But Trump is standing by his nominee to head up the Pentagon.

“It looks like Pete is doing well now,” Trump told NBC News’ Kristen Welker in an interview that will air on “Meet the Press” on Sunday morning. “I mean, people were a little bit concerned. He’s a young guy, with a tremendous track record actually. He went to Princeton and went to Harvard. He was a good student at both. But he loves the military and I think people are starting to see it so we’ll be working on his nomination along with a lot of others.”

“I’ve spoken to people that know him very well, and they say he does not have a drinking problem,” he also told the regime media muppet, shutting her down when she brought up the smear.

“We took a casualty today. One of the reasons we took a casualty, I hate to say it and let me be brutally frank,” Bannon said during his podcast on the day that Gaetz withdrew. “You can’t stick these people out there with no air cover. What are we doing?”

“You can’t stick them out there and take them off television. They’re the best at selling themselves. You take them off television for five, six, seven, eight days, and it’s nothing but incoming. Where is the plan and where is the execution of the plan?” Bannon asked.

“It’s a big defeat for President Trump today,” he concluded. “And trust me, those demons and jackals and hyenas up there in the United States Senate, Mitch McConnell, that crowd, they know it. They know it.”

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