Bannon said that Trump was "beyond borderline" and should be removed via the 25th Amendment ~~ and ~~ This is an Extremist Regime

 https://boingboing.net/2026/02/16/bannon-said-that-trump-was-beyond-borderline-and-should-be-removed-via-the-25th-amendment.html

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Bannon said that Trump was "beyond borderline" and should be removed via the 25th Amendment

Bannon texted Epstein that Trump was "beyond borderline" and invoked the 25th Amendment. He defends Trump daily on air.

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"I think it's beyond borderline — 25 amendment." That was Steve Bannon texting Jeffrey Epstein on December 31, 2018, about President Trump. Epstein had texted Bannon, "He is really borderline," and Bannon went further, telling the convicted sex trafficker that Trump should be removed from office, Raw Story reports.

The texts were released as part of the DOJ's publication of approximately 3.5 million Epstein files. Bannon appears in over 1,700 Epstein emails. The documents show he worked to rehabilitate Epstein's public image after Epstein's 2008 child prostitution conviction, and that Epstein coached Bannon on how to smear Christine Blasey Ford during the Kavanaugh hearings.

Every day since those texts, Bannon has gone on his War Room podcast to defend the man he privately called mentally unfit. He has openly advocated that Trump run for a third term, despite the Constitution forbidding it.

Bannon is one of several unsavory individuals who once described Trump as a menace, then became his most full-throated sycophants the moment they were given a chance to enter his noxious cloud of corruption:

• Vance, now Vice President, privately called Trump "America's Hitler" and publicly called him "cultural heroin" in 2016.
• Marco Rubio, now Secretary of State, called Trump "a dangerous con artist who has spent a career sticking it to working people."
• Senator Lindsey Graham called Trump "a race-baiting, xenophobic religious bigot" and warned: "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed — and we will deserve it."

The psychological motivation is simple: the opportunity to be close to power snuffs out all sense of shame and decency in people of low moral character.

Bannon's "We Build the Wall" fundraiser raised $25 million from Trump supporters to privately build a border wall — a project he bragged about to Epstein. Bannon skimmed over $1 million for personal expenses, received a presidential pardon for the resulting federal fraud charges, then pleaded guilty to state fraud charges in February 2025 and received a conditional discharge with three years' supervision.

In February 2026, he was sued over yet another scheme — a MAGA-branded cryptocurrency.

What will Steve do next? One thing's for certain, no matter what it is, his brain-addled fan base will keep maxing out their credit cards to fund it.

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Hello, my friends. This is the Paul Street Report. Are we recording? Yes, we are. It is February 17th. My friends, this is insane. You do not have to agree with me that the Trump regime is fascist. If you don't agree with me, you're wrong, but that's okay. You don't have to accept that analysis of the Trump regime.

To agree with refuse fascism slogan that the Trump regime must go now. I'm going to read you a couple recent news stories. This is from the New York Times, specifically the New York Times editorial board. days ago, quote, the world is entering a dangerous new nuclear age. This month,

the new START treaty between the United States and Russia, the last major restraint on the world's two largest nuclear arsenals, expired. In its place, The Trump administration, let's call that the Trump fascist regime. In its place, the Trump fascist regime is substituting a policy of vague threats and dangerous

brinkmanship that portends an unconstrained arms race not seen since the height of the Cold War. Hey, what could go wrong? President Trump's approach, let's rewrite that, the deranged, maniacal, fascist, lunatic Trump's approach to this new unbound era is alarming in both its words and its mechanics. Alarming? Try horrifying, but okay.

Rather than preserving the stability that has held for half a century, barely held, I might add, the administration is weighing the deployment of more nuclear weapons. and perhaps most recklessly, the resumption of underground nuclear testing. And in the New York Times, quote, I think weighing is an understatement,

This is an Exterminist Regime

The Trump Regime Must Go

Paul Street

Feb 17, 2026

A reminder: I at least cannot view these videos without skipping and breaks when I use Microsoft/Edge as browser. It’s fine with Google and Firefox.

We can of course add in the assault on vaccines, medical science, and public health more broadly to our understanding of the Trump regime as exterminist.