Steve Bannon Threatens “ICE Surround The Polls” For The Midterms
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The Bulwark
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🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Tim Miller joins Katy Tur on MS NOW with his take on what the newly released Epstein documents reveal about Jeffrey Epstein, but about how few powerful adults were willing to say no, draw a line, or walk away when it mattered. Tim also responds to Steve Bannon’s threats for ICE to surround the polls ahead of the 2026 midterm elections and what Stephen Miller’s continued influence inside Trump’s orbit says about the current state of Republican politics.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, Tim Miller from the Bullwark here. |
| 0:01.9 | So I was on Kitty Cher, and we talked, you know, about all the stuff that's in the news, including Epstein and kind of went a little bit deeper on. |
| 0:08.8 | Where is, like, is there anybody in society that has a fucking red line anymore? |
| 0:14.4 | We talked a little bit about that. |
| 0:17.1 | But I wanted to really dial in for you guys on this discussion around Steve Bannon's threats to the 2026 term election. |
| 0:30.6 | There's this video that they played during the clip of Bannon that you may have seen. |
| 0:37.0 | But if you haven't, let's just watch it now. |
| 0:39.2 | You're damn right. |
| 0:40.3 | We're going to have ICE surround the polls come November. |
| 0:43.9 | We're not going to sit here and allow you to steal the country again. |
| 0:47.0 | And you can whine and cry and throw your toys out of the pram all you want, |
| 0:51.8 | but we will never again allow an election to be stolen. |
| 0:56.1 | So that's Steve saying next to him is a friend, a one-time friend of mine, Caroline Wren. |
| 1:02.5 | Write about her in my book, if you want to go check that out, why we did it. |
| 1:06.8 | That could piss me off. |
| 1:09.3 | And start just because I know them. |
| 1:10.9 | I know.. I know, |
| 1:11.3 | but this is, |
| 1:12.2 | he's full of shit. |
| 1:13.4 | This is fake bluster. |
| 1:15.1 | Okay. |
| 1:16.4 | And for him to want to try to say that they're going to intimidate real Americans |
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