# Twitter suspends Steve Bannon’s podcast account over threat of violence to Fauci, Wray

Bannon made comments on a video of his “Steve Bannon’s War Room” podcast Wednesday that Dr. Anthony Fauci and FBI Director Christopher Wray should have their “heads on pikes.” YouTube, a unit of Alphabet Inc.’s
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Google, removed the video, but as of Thursday night had not suspended Bannon’s channel.

As of Thursday night, Spotify
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had not removed the podcast episode from its platform.

Bannon first suggested Fauci and Wray be fired, but then took it further: “I’d actually like to go back to the old times of Tudor England, I’d put the heads on pikes, right, I’d put them at the two corners of the White House as a warning to federal bureaucrats.”

Co-host Jack Maxey then mentioned how “traitors” used to be hanged.

“That’s how you won the revolution,” Bannon replied. “No one wants to talk about it. The revolution wasn’t some sort of garden party, right? It was a civil war. It was a civil war.”

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said Bannon’s “@WarRoomPandemic” account had been permanently suspended, meaning its status can be appealed but it won’t be reactivated automatically after a period of time. Twitter said Bannon’s tweet violated “our policy on the glorification of violence.”

On his podcast, Bannon also said Twitter Chief Executive Jack Dorsey should be arrested for flagging President Donald Trump’s tweets as potential misinformation.

Bannon was Trump’s former White House chief strategist and is now an outspoken right-wing pundit. In August, Bannon pleaded not guilty to charges that he defrauded contributors to a border-wall crowdfunding campaign.