Former advisor to Donald Trump Steve Bannon attacked Fox News for finally covering the biggest story in United States politics—the January 6th House Select Committee hearings.
Bannon—a prior Trump pardon recipient—was cited for contempt for refusing to cooperate with the House inquiry into the Capitol riot that resulted in at least five deaths, over 100 injuries to law enforcement and millions of dollars in damages.
In a post to former Republican President Donald Trump's beleaguered Twitter clone, Truth Social, Bannon ranted:
"Fox News shows their hand—all in on taking down President Trump—now it’s out in the open—IF YOU WATCH FOX U ARE ONLY AIDING AND ABETTING THEIR ANTI-TRUMP HATE"
@SteveBannon/Truth Social
\u201c@RonFilipkowski Is Bannon now saying that I HAVE TO WATCH Fox News to aid and abet anti-Trump hate? Oh crap!\u201d— Ron Filipkowski \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@Ron Filipkowski \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6) 1655845757
Fox News was widely criticized for their failure to cover or televise the January 6th hearings.
But now that they have devoted some airtime to the major story, conservatives like Bannon are making their displeasure known.
People were less than sympathetic to Bannon's complaints.
\u201cAt least Fox daytime programming covered the hearing and couldn\u2019t make excuses for Trump today. That\u2019s too much for Steve Bannon to take.\u201d— Ron Filipkowski \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@Ron Filipkowski \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6) 1655845757
\u201c@MerrillLynched @RonFilipkowski Kari Lake now has My Pillow ads in her Twitter, use the code Kari for a discount.\u201d— Ron Filipkowski \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@Ron Filipkowski \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6) 1655845757
\u201c@CindyCoops @RonFilipkowski @rosierifka\u201d— Ron Filipkowski \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@Ron Filipkowski \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6) 1655845757
\u201c@DaNgerSteVe7 @RonFilipkowski This was always bound to happen at some point, and yep, stay tuned for much more :)\u201d— Ron Filipkowski \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@Ron Filipkowski \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6) 1655845757
\u201c@RonFilipkowski\u201d— Ron Filipkowski \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@Ron Filipkowski \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6) 1655845757
\u201cFor clarity: Donald Trump is a gangster, grifter and fraud. Meadows & Flynn are traitors. JFK Jr is dead. Fox News is NOT news. SCOTUS is politicized. GOP is radicalized. McConnell's an obstructionist. Bannon's a destructionist. Rudy's a souse. Ginni's nuts. DeJoy deserves deJail\u201d— Duty To Warn \ud83d\udd09 (@Duty To Warn \ud83d\udd09) 1655843769
\u201c@NancySawyerFox @FukDemonRats They listen to this criminal who stole the wall money and ripped off the Trump donors. The wall that never happened was Bannon wanted to be a millionaire. \n\nFox news keeps them in the dark.\u201d— Michelle Mullica \u2b05\ufe0f I'm just a warning \u26a0\ufe0f \ud83d\udea8 (@Michelle Mullica \u2b05\ufe0f I'm just a warning \u26a0\ufe0f \ud83d\udea8) 1655808386
Some wondered what changed at Fox News.
\u201c@wendyc78757 Desantis. They want Desantis\u201d— Ron Filipkowski \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@Ron Filipkowski \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6) 1655845757
\u201cFox News played this hearing today, much to the disgust of Steve Bannon who indicted that network as a corporate traitor. Over the hours of this hearing I felt another million life long Republicans decide that they were on the wrong side.\u201d— Bruce Swanton (@Bruce Swanton) 1655858772
\u201cBannon knows very well these hearings breaking down the Fox wall barrier they had put up for 7 years is an existential threat to his neofascim. Trump must be freaking out too.\u201d— Poet at work. (@Poet at work.) 1655846517
Bannon has ranted about the hearings multiple times.
On his War Room: Pandemicpodcast the day after the first televised January 6th hearing, Bannon said:
"Trump won the presidency. And he is the legitimate President of the United States, and your guy's illegitimate and the American people are awakening to that."
"We don't care what you have to say. And I dare Merrick Garland to take that crap there last night and try to indict Donald J. Trump."
"We dare you because we will impeach you. We're winning in November and we're going to impeach you and everybody around you."
"F*ck—screw the White House. We're going to impeach you and everybody in the DOJ."
In public, Bannon has consistently parroted Trump's Big Lie about the 2020 election.
But testimony before the House Select Committee alleged Bannon knew it was all a lie, knew Trump lost by a wide margin, but repeated the lies to secure a pardon.
Bannon was pardoned by Trump as one of his last acts in office. Bannon was facing fraud charges for a border wall scam at the time.