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Former White House adviser Steve Bannon on Wednesday accused White House officials of leaking information to MS Now regarding President Trump’s primetime address to the nation.
He accused journalist Vaughn Hillyard of speaking with White House staffers off the record about what would be mentioned in the president’s address.
Hillyard reported that Trump’s speech would encompass vulnerabilities with voting machines and two foreign attempts to influence U.S. elections in his address given ahead of midterms.
“The thing the White House should understand is that the people at MSNBC were not shy about sending around to everybody exactly who they’ve been talking to, so we know who they’ve been talking to. We know who these anonymous sources are,” Bannon told John Solomon, who is now working as an unpaid special government employee to help declassify documents to the public, during a Wednesday episode of his “War Room” podcast.
MSNBC split from its parent company in November 2025 to become MS Now, which stands for My Source for News, Opinion and the World.
“Because they went to the enemies of the — let me be blunt. They went to a network that has driven the hate and dissension in this country that led to the assassination attempts on the president of the United States. They went to them and privately briefed them on what’s going on,” he added.
Hillyard’s report says declassified information related to election security will be published following Trump’s address in an effort headed by Bill Pulte, the acting director of national intelligence, and Solomon.
Both Pulte and Solomon have echoed Trump’s false claims that he won the 2020 presidential election.
Solomon said people are “baiting” members of the media to cover leaks, which he shies away from.
“Just stay focused on the truth, what the future is. I think Americans will wake up next Friday, and the Friday after that, and the Friday after that being informed in ways that they weren’t, and they can make their own minds up,” Solomon said in discussion with Bannon.
“I trust the American people to make up their minds regardless of what MSNBC, or whatever they call themselves today, does,” he added.
Democratic strategist James Carville recently warned that more leaks from White House staffers are expected ahead of midterm elections and said many will occur after November if Trump loses political power.
“No one’s gonna wanna hire anybody out of the Trump Administration. And the way that you get right with history is start leaking,” Carville advised current administration officials during his Politicon podcast last month.
“And you position yourself as the person [that] had tried to tell us. That’s the only future you have. Leak like a sieve. Leak like a broken faucet. Leak everywhere. You’re already leaking. Everybody’s leaking on you, everybody’s leaking on everybody else,” he added.
Carville told White House officials to “trust no one” within the administration.
“And I’ll give you one piece of advice, Donald Trump. Everybody is out for you, even your own people. Be scared, be very afraid,” he added.
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