Steve Bannon and Elon Musk are two of Donald Trump’s biggest supporters.
Now the two are at war.
And Steve Bannon declared war on Elon Musk with this chilling ultimatum.
Elon Musk kicked up a hornet’s nest when he declared that supporting the ability of foreigners to obtain H-1B visas to come work in America is a hill to die on.
Musk claimed he would go to “war” to defend the ability of tech companies to import cheap foreign labor from India and that any opposed to him needed to be run out of the Republican Party.
This didn’t sit well with Steve Bannon, who is one of the leaders of the America First grassroots.
Bannon told the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera that he wasn’t afraid of Musk and that he was willing to go to war with the world’s richest man.
“I will have Elon Musk run out of here by Inauguration Day,” Bannon declared.
Bannon stated he would fight to check Musk’s influence with Trump and prevent him from getting the “blue pass” that allows the holder unfettered access to the White House.
“He will not have a blue pass to the White House, he will not have full access to the White House, he will be like any other person,” Bannon added.
Bannon claimed Musk was “evil” and that it was now his personal mission to stop Musk from imposing his will on immigration on the Trump agenda.
“He is a truly evil guy, a very bad guy. I made it my personal thing to take this guy down,” Bannon stated.
“Before, because he put money in, I was prepared to tolerate it; I’m not prepared to tolerate it anymore,” Bannon warned.
Bannon explained that H-1B visas allow tech companies to discriminate against Americans by bringing in foreign labor that undercuts domestic workers by working for lower wages.
“This thing of the H-1B visas, it’s about the entire immigration system is gamed by the tech overlords, they use it to their advantage, the people are furious,” Bannon remarked, adding that “76 percent of engineers working in Silicon Valley are non-Americans.”
Bannon’s been on the front lines of the fight against mass migration for a decade.
The first Trump administration put rules in place to restrict the use of H-1B visas.
Bannon thinks Musk believes he can throw his money around and prevent the second Trump administration from implementing pro-American worker immigration policies.
“We have been fighting this fight for ten years,” Bannon went on to say. “We are going to expose the entire corruption of the American system, of how money controls everything and hopefully we’ll inspire you in Italy to wake up.”
“What’s not positive,” Bannon concluded, “is when all of a sudden he tries to put his half-baked ideas which are really about the implementation of techno-feudalism on a global scale. I don’t support that and we’ll fight it.”