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(160,105 posts) Mon Sep 15, 2025, 04:29 AM Monday

Utah governor snaps back at 'conflict entrepreneur' Steve Bannon over Kirk shooting response

Source: The Independent

Sunday 14 September 2025 16:45 EDT

Utah’s governor is firing back at Steve Bannon and other Trump allies who are working to inflame passions and encourage rage among Republicans in response to the shooting death of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.

Governor Spencer Cox appeared on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday, where the Republican responded to criticism leveled against him by Bannon on his War Room podcast last week.

Formerly Donald Trump’s chief White House strategist, Bannon remains an insider in Trump’s orbit and continues to hold many connections to the White House. He’s a fixture at the annual CPAC event in National Harbor, Maryland, and is a leader of the populist and strongman-friendly wing of the Trump-allied conservative movement.

This past week, Bannon derided Cox as a “national embarrassment” as the Utah governor — whose own ties to the GOP fall under more traditional conservative lines through the influence of Mormonism in the state — called for peace and respectful dialogue across the aisle in the wake of Kirk’s assassination on a college campus on Wednesday.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/spencer-cox-steve-bannon-charlie-kirk-b2826329.html

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Utah governor snaps back at 'conflict entrepreneur' Steve Bannon over Kirk shooting response (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Monday OP

Cox seems to be torn DFW Monday #1

Bannon is such a sewer rat johnnyfins Monday #2

National embarrassment MaineBlueBear Monday #3

the entire Republican Party gopiscrap Monday #9

"...a leader of the populist and strongman-friendly wing of the Trump-allied conservative movement." OldBaldy1701E Monday #4

Not a joke. Truth Bernardo de La Paz Monday #5

Yes. OldBaldy1701E Monday #6

Yes, you understand the truth behind what you wrote. Bernardo de La Paz Monday #7

That is perfect! (n/t) OldBaldy1701E Monday #8

DFW

(58,924 posts)

1. Cox seems to be torn

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Sep 15, 2025, 04:35 AM

Monday

On his own, he calls for peace and respectful dialogue across the aisle. One call from Trump later, and he does a 180°

I would ask which is it, but being a Republican, I'd get a different answer depending on the time of day, and which way the wind is blowing at that moment.

johnnyfins

(2,893 posts)

2. Bannon is such a sewer rat

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Sep 15, 2025, 04:37 AM

Monday

MaineBlueBear

(299 posts)

3. National embarrassment

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Sep 15, 2025, 05:28 AM

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Takes one to know one.

gopiscrap

(24,459 posts)

9. the entire Republican Party

Reply to MaineBlueBear (Reply #3)

Mon Sep 15, 2025, 11:34 AM

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is a national embarrassment

OldBaldy1701E

(9,043 posts)

4. "...a leader of the populist and strongman-friendly wing of the Trump-allied conservative movement."

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Sep 15, 2025, 06:19 AM

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BBWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAWhat? 'Strong-man'??

(I hope that was a joke. Because it is, whether the writer knows it or not.)

Bernardo de La Paz

(58,353 posts)

5. Not a joke. Truth

Reply to OldBaldy1701E (Reply #4)

Mon Sep 15, 2025, 07:47 AM

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The truth is not tRump. tRump is not a strong man, he is a "strongman" to some degree. He wants to be autocratic, a dictator, and he is behaving autocratically with limited success and a lot of push back. Desire and reality are not the same thing. tRump is a little senile and not strong.

The truth is Bannon wants him to behave more like a "strongman", despite tRump's physical weakness. Bannon wants tRump to be more authoritarian, more fascist. The Kirk / Bannon wing of the Con moment is very definitely "strongman-friendly".