Did Steve Bannon know about Operation Midnight Hammer? His 'party is on' dropped the first clue
Steve Bannon dropped the first clue of a possible US attack on Iran when he said this was going to be a big weekend.
Donald Trump's former advisor Steve Bannon dropped the first clue of something big happening this weekend in his podcast Saturday when he said 'the party is on'. 'I'm just reporting what I'm hearing from pretty good sources.
The party is on," Steve Bannon said when Trump officially bought two weeks time to decide on joining Israel in its attack on Iran. 'So another big weekend in this unfolding aspect of the Third World War, and no, anyone that's telling you that the Third World War is not here absolutely does not understand the development and evolution of kinetic energy," Steve Bannon who earlier urged the president to not get involved in the Israel-Iran war said.
Bannon visited the White House earlier this week, just hours before the president announced the two-week deadline for himself to make a decision on his next steps in Iran. It was, however, after Trump apparently approved the attack plan, going by the report of the Wall Street Journal. Reports said Bannon arrived at the White House armed with specific talking points, including that Israeli intelligence was unreliable, that the bunker-buster bomb might not work as planned, and the risk an attack posed to American troops stationed in the Middle East.
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Pentagon Sunday announced that Operation Midnight Hammer was very classified and only a few people had the knowledge about it.
Top Republicans were briefed about the operation
According to multiple GOP sources, the top two Republicans in Congress who were briefed about the US strikes on three Iran nuclear plans ahead of time were House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune. But Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries received notifications shortly before the public announcement.
'Leaders in Congress were aware of the urgency of this situation and the Commander-in-Chief evaluated that the imminent danger outweighed the time it would take for Congress to act,' Mike Johnson wrote on X, defending Trump's decision. 'The President fully respects the Article I power of Congress, and tonight's necessary, limited, and targeted strike follows the history and tradition of similar military actions under presidents of both parties.
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