Steve Bannon Warns Former FBI Boss: ‘You Should Be Worried’

Onetime White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has warned former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe that he “should be worried” about being targeted if Donald Trump wins the 2024 election.

Speaking on his WarRoom podcast, Bannon was reacting to a recent interview McCabe gave to CNN in which he said those in the intelligence community are having “tortuous discussions” with their family about whether they should leave the country to avoid being “unconstitutionally and illegally detained” if Trump enters office next year.

Trump, who was recently convicted of 34 felony counts in his hush money trial and still faces charges in three other federal and state criminal cases, has recently hinted he would enact “revenge” on Democrats and federal officials if he beats President Joe Biden in November. The Republican has frequently claimed the criminal investigations into him are politically motivated “witch hunts.”

Bannon, who has been ordered to surrender by July 1 to begin his four-month contempt of Congress prison sentence, discussed how federal agencies will be “purged” in a second Trump administration. He also said Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will be “jailed” after his office brought the falsifying business records charges against the former president.

Bannon has now suggested that even if McCabe does flee the country to avoid being targeted by Trump, the “long arm of American justice” will still catch him.

“First off, everything that’s going to be done is going to be by the Constitution, under the rule of law,” Bannon said.

“And McCabe, you should be worried. You should be very worried. But also understand this, brother, we have extradition treaties with virtually every country in the world. And you go ahead and run and run as far as you want. We’re going to come and get you.”

“These are smart people, they know the law. Hell, he was the Deputy [Director of the] FBI, they know the laws they broke. And here’s the thing McCabe, we’re going to have access to everything,” Bannon added. “Oh, these are ‘torturous conversations?’ Well, if you didn’t do anything wrong, then they wouldn’t be torturous conversations.”

Bannon went on to suggest that McCabe should “leave the country run [and] as far as you can” as the “long arm of American justice is going to get you” and return him to the U.S.

“Judgment Day is five November of this year,” Bannon said. “Accountability day starts on the afternoon of the 20th of January after Donald John Trump takes his hand off the King James Bible, and we go to work.”

The FBI has been contacted for comment via email.

In a recent interview with talk show host Phil McGraw, Trump suggested that revenge “can be justified,” in the latest sign the former president is seeking to target his opponents should he enter the White House next year.

Bannon also recently suggested that House Republicans should go after “government officials and private actors” if the GOP return their majority in the lower chamber after November’s elections.

“The House Judiciary Committee should issue subpoenas for documents, staff depositions, and public hearings to the government officials and private actors who are conspiring to violate the civil rights of President Trump, his aides, and his allies by waging this unprecedented, Republic-ending lawfare and election interference,” Bannon previously told Newsweek.