Trump whisperer and Breitbart News boss Steve Bannon stepped up his attack late Tuesday on the “Clinton machine” and the “cultural elite” who he said are trying to nullify the president’s election and snuff out the conservative movement in America.

“We’ve got a very tough fight ahead of us,” he told Washington’s conservative and anti-Communist legal crowd.

He urged them to join his war, which he’s hinted at in recent media stories picked up by the Drudge Report.

“I think the cultural elite in this country is trying to nullify this election. It’s imperative that we win this fight. That’s why you see in the media today, and Drudge the last couple of days, I’m taking a very aggressive stance. And a very aggressive stance is to make sure that the Republican Party understands something, that Donald Trump was a blunt force instrument that wreaked havoc on the Clinton machine. There is no other candidate, and they had some incredibly qualified people, there is no other candidate that could have done to the Clintons what Donald Trump did,” said Bannon during a brief address at the private University Club.

“His galvanizing this movement put us 20 years ahead of where we’d be if he hadn’t come. He’s a very imperfect person. He’s the first to admit that, but he’s our president and if we back down from this fight, if we roll over from this fight, if we give up on this fight, we’re going to waste something that is very precious to this country because I got to tell you, there’s going to be a fight to nullify every election from here on in,” added the former White House counselor in comments participants provided to Secrets.



Bannon spoke at the 40th Annual Pumpkin Papers Irregulars, a celebration of anti-Communism and a reference to the 1940s scandal in which documents given to Whittaker Chambers by State Department official Alger Hiss for transmission to the Soviet Union were hidden in a pumpkin by Chambers, who became a noted conservative and anti-communist.

The annual dinner, typically held around Halloween, has a ritual of the burning of papers in a pumpkin and Bannon and former Trump advisor Sebastian Gorka participated.



Bannon warned of a coming "crisis" in which the Democrats will try to gain control of Washington in the 2018 midterm elections and snuff out Trump's agenda. And, failing that, he added, they will come after Trump with legal attacks in 2019. He has been urging the White House to battle special prosecutor Robert Muller much more aggressively.

And he urged GOP leaders to stand with Trump and show support for the voters who put him in office.

Citing blue-collar workers in Ohio, Michigan, and Iowa as an example, he said, “They always do the right thing, and they’re looking for leadership and they have our back but we have to lead them.

In his address to the 100 at dinner, hosted by conservative publisher Alfred Regnery, Bannon also warned of the anti-American “axis” of China, Turkey, and Persia.

“We are coming together right now, as clear as the morning sun, China, Persia, and Turkey in an axis that collectively is going to be the greatest enemy and the greatest force of evil we’ve ever faced,” he said.

As he left the dinner, Bannon told one of the Irregulars, "We need to wake up the Republican establishment."

Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner's "Washington Secrets" columnist, can be contacted at pbedard@washingtonexaminer.com