Steve Bannon’s podcast barred from Twitter after he made beheading comment about Fauci, FBI Director Wray

  • Date: 06-Nov-2020
  • Source: CNBC
  • Sector:Defense
  • Country:Middle East
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Steve Bannon’s podcast barred from Twitter after he made beheading comment about Fauci, FBI Director Wray

Former top Trump aide Steve Bannon's podcast was permanently suspended by Twitter and had an episode yanked from YouTube after he implied that FBI Director Christopher Wray and leading government infectious-diseases expert Dr. Anthony Fauci should be beheaded and have their heads put on pikes outside the White House.Those comments by Bannon on Thursday came while he is free on a $5 million release bond in a federal criminal case in which he is accused of defrauding donors to a nonprofit group purportedly dedicated to building a wall on the southern border of the United States.A spokeswoman for Bannon said that he was not suggesting that Fauci and Wray actually be beheaded, but was speaking metaphorically by referencing the bloody politics of Tudor-era England. She also said he has "never