Steve Bannon sent a message to FBI Director Kash Patel: Conservative voters aren’t happy.
Stop touting crime numbers. Start making arrests, Bannon demanded.
Bannon, one of the most influential voices in the MAGA movement, publicly unloaded on Patel and demanded the Justice Department deliver the high-profile prosecutions that conservative voters have been waiting for.
“The reason the country’s in the shape it’s in is because of these radicals, Marxist jihadis who want to destroy this country,” Bannon said on War Room. “[Democratic mega-donor George] Soros has put in, what, $100 million in this midterm already? He and that freak son of his.”
“Why he’s not been perp walked somewhere, I don’t know,” Bannon said. “People have other things, have more important things to do, more important things. We need a sense of urgency in the Justice Department! We need a sense of urgency in the FBI, and, Kash, I love you, brother, but I don’t want to hear any more statistics about how crime’s coming down, crime’s coming down, all that. We want to see perp walks of the Deep State!”
“We want to see perp walks of who stole 2020. We want to see — get on with it, while we can still get on with it. Nobody believes the crime statistics, anyway. I’m sorry, they still don’t feel comfortable walking down a street in Memphis, these other places, unless they see the National Guard that President Trump will put in.”
“So, knock it off! No more stats. I don’t want to hear any more crime stats. I want to see perp walks, I want to see the Soroses perp-walked. That’s what we want to see. Perp walk George Soros, all good.”
Just weeks ago, the FBI director declared violent crime was down 9.1% between March 2025 and February 2026, including an 18.7% drop in murders and a 19.1% drop in robberies. Patel has called it proof that his restructuring of the Bureau is working.
“[Crime stats are] not going to move the needle,” Bannon said. “It’s not going to matter in any voting.”
“Let’s have some urgency! Let’s light a fire,” Bannon said. “Where is the task force? Show me the foreign interference? It’s there, it’s in the files. You got the documents, let’s get it out, and then you pass SAVE America and sign an executive order. Let’s do it all.”
November is four months out, and Bannon is one of the loudest voices arguing that the administration is running short on time to deliver the accountability MAGA voters were promised.
Take a look –
BANNON: Kash, I love you, brother, but I don’t want to hear any more crime statistics.
Nobody believes them anyway. I’m sorry.
Knock it off. No more stats. I want to see perp walks of the Deep State. I want to see the Soroses perp walked. Then you can give me crime stats. pic.twitter.com/LLznIuHwWX
— Grace Chong, MBI (@gc22gc) June 29, 2026