Steve Bannon Gleefully Celebrates Getting a ‘Scalp’ With Wray Resignation, Rages At Murdoch’s WSJ Coverage of Kash Patel

Steve Bannon gleefully celebrated the resignation of FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday, declaring it a “scalp” for his War Room audience and taunting Wray for not standing his ground.

“We don’t call it the Gestapo. We call it the American Gestapo. Stunningly, Chris Wray, Chris Wray resigns. This is what’s so great about these people? They’re so tough and so puffed up and, you know, they’re so going to do this and going to do that. They’re running for the hills,” Bannon began on his show Wednesday after the news broke, adding:

Nobody thought Wray would resign. They thought Trump would have to fire them after he got in. And then it’d be a court [battle]. It’d be a big fight that Congress would get involved. He quit. He quit because he’s a wimp, a pencil neck loser. He’s afraid of us. That’s why he quit. And look at Brennan. Look at the fear. Now they get it that they’re going to have no stop at all for the investigations that are surely going to happen on their criminality.

Wray resigned following President-elect Donald Trump nominating loyalist and Bannon ally Kash Patel to lead the FBI – an unprecedented move as Wray had years left on his term, which is intentionally designed not to coincide with presidential elections and partisan staffing turnover at other agencies.

“A tiny bit of pressure from some crazy man here yelling into a microphone. Right. And you run for the hills. You’re nothing but a bunch of wimps. Stand and fight. Show us something. You’re such a big talker. Show us something,” continued Bannon.

“Come on, show us some resolve. Show us you’re not about a bunch of losers. You’re scrambling. What Wray’s looking for us? Get that jet, that private FBI jet, and get on a flight to Canada. Sorry. It’s going to be the 51st state. You can’t hide out there. Go to Greenland. Not that that’s not going to work. Trump’s going to buy it. You guys are pathetic,” concluded the gleeful host, who previously ran Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016 and served briefly in his first administration.

Later in the show, Bannon took aim at media coverage of Trump’s nominees, particularly singling out NBC’s Ken Dilanian and the Wall Street Journal.

“Go sit on Rachel Maddow’s lap. Say that. We’re tired of the media. These phony reporters at places like NBC, CBS, and ABC. We’re tired of it, of coming out and making editorial comment and making stuff up and lying. Lying about Kash Patel,” Bannon began after digging into Dilanian’s in-depth reporting on Wray’s decision to resign.

“I want to say something right here, folks. My favorite topic. What is my favorite topic? If you said the Murdochs, you be absolutely correct. I’m just, today’s Wall Street Journal, right, the Wall Street Journal. So I got the main editorial Look at the main a big old thing right here goes half a page, half a page of the main editorial. This is what the Wall Street Journal thinks,” Bannon continued, adding:

Not even signs on saying because it’s from The Wall Street Journal: ‘How Tulsi Gabbard sees the world, her dogmatic, hard left view makes her a risky fit for assessing Intel.’ So they are down on Tulsi they don’t like Tulsi, don’t like her at all, don’t like her. So I flip to the opinion page, the op-ed page.

Boys and girls, let’s turn here and see. We have here gosh, we have John Bolton. He has zero credibility cash Patel doesn’t belong at the FBI. So I got Tulsi. She’s hard left, her views don’t count. I got Kash. He’s unfit and they smear him right here. You all get his lawyer on this thing, right then, boys and girls. Then I got some hack here. I don’t know who he is, ‘Trump’s misguided attack on birthright citizenship’ right there. And I top it off with and this is the most reasonable some guy from West Point saying, hey, Trump once again the wars. But it’s not easy to stay in the wars, the forever wars.

That’s The Wall Street Journal today. That’s The Wall Street Journal today. Four massive opinion pieces from the Murdochs are anti-Trump, an anti-Trump program. And I mean trying to be kill shots. This thing right here, I mean John Bolton, they quoting it all day on MSNBC. Kash Patel. Well, guess what? John Bolton. Kash Patel is going to be the director of the FBI. Yep. Going to happen, hearing it all over. He’s going to be the director today. Wray We took down Chris Wray. This a scalp for the War Room.

Watch the clip above.