By Molly Claire Goddard
4:18am PDT, Jun 19, 2025
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Are the cracks showing in
Donald Trump's Republican party?
On the Tuesday, June 17, episode of his "Bannon's War Room" podcast, former political advisor to the president
Steve Bannon declared
Mark Levin and his Fox News colleagues aren't "real MAGA" if they support the United States getting involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran.
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After Donald Trump appeared to sign off on Israel's attack of Iran, Fox News personality Mark Levin claimed every American should support the move. However, Steve Bannon slammed the cable news network for backing this narrative.
"There's an awful lot of people I notice right now saying how they're true MAGA and they're pure MAGA," Bannon said. "I don't think anybody at Fox can possibly be true MAGA and hardcore MAGA and the reason is, to be brutally frank, when President Trump had the election stolen from him and had the White House taken away and he went back to Mar-a-Lago for that year of 2021, because everybody at Fox takes a paycheck from [Rupert] Murdoch, you all supported [Ron] DeSantis and Nikki Haley and whoever else came along as an opportunity to replace President Trump."
The podcast host continued, "If you work at Fox, by definition you can't be true MAGA, it's impossible. We were here, remember this audience, there was a couple of very lonely days, weeks and months before President Trump I think took to CPAC in Orlando and went back and gave that amazing speech that he was coming back and had thought it through in a month and a half and we knew he would always come back. You had his back in the darkest days because you believe in President Trump."
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Steve Bannon isn't the first person on the right to issue a scathing takedown of Fox News. During a Monday, June 16, appearance on his "Bannon's War Room" podcast, Tucker Carlson criticized his former employer for promoting Mark Levin and his narrative.
"Now I don't have a TV, but someone who owns a TV was just telling me that he's all over prime time. So what is that? That's not by popular acclaim. That's like their viewer surveys. Like, you know, we need a lot more Mark Levin — less Jesse Watters, more Mark Levin," the Tucker Carlson Tonight alum said. "What they're doing is what they always do, which is just turning up the propaganda hose to full blast and just trying to knock elderly Fox viewers off their feet and make them submit to where you want them to."
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During an interview with Sean Hannity on Tuesday, June 17, Mark Levin emphasized how nobody should be questioning Donald Trump's possible decision to get the United States involved with the war between Israel and Iran.
"The Israelis are kicking their a**** left and right and the U.S. hasn't even gotten involved directly. Yeah, so where are they? They're nowhere! How about China? Nowhere! How about Russia? Nowhere! What happened to World War III? There is no World War III! They all sound like a bunch of Marxist Islamists. They don't sound like patriotic Americans!" he ranted. "Let me be clear. This is good versus evil. You're either a patriotic American who's going to get behind the president of the United States – the commander-in-chief, or you're not!"
