Steve Bannon Calls Elon Musk a “Truly Evil Guy, a Very Bad Guy”
Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon issued a stark warning to Tesla CEO Elon Musk while talking to Italian media this week.
During an interview with the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, Bannon said:
“I will have Elon Musk run out of here by Inauguration Day.”
“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.”
“He is a truly evil guy, a very bad guy.”
“I made it my personal thing to take this guy down,” Bannon said.
“Before, because he put money in, I was prepared to tolerate it; I’m not prepared to tolerate it anymore.”
“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 said, noting that “76 percent of engineers working in Silicon Valley are non-Americans.”
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“Peter Thiel, David Sachs, Elon Musk, are all white South Africans,” Bannon continued.
“He should go back to South Africa.”
“Why do we have South Africans, the most racist people on earth, white South Africans, we have them making any comments at all on what goes on in the United States?”
Musk was once on an H-1B visa himself and defended the industry’s push to bring in foreign workers.
“There is a permanent shortage of excellent engineering talent,” Musk said in a post.
“It is the fundamental limiting factor in Silicon Valley.”
Musk labelled those in the Republican Party opposed to the visas as “hateful, unrepentant racists.”
However, Trump appeared to side with the Tesla CEO on the matter of H-1B visas.
“I’ve always liked the visas, I have always been in favor of the visas. That’s why we have them,” Trump said in an interview with the New York Post last month.
“I have many H-1B visas on my properties. I’ve been a believer in H-1B. I have used it many times. It’s a great program.”
Earlier this month, Bannon called the H1-B program a “scam” during his show.
Bannon labelled Musk a “toddler” after the SpaceX CEO told opponents of H-1B skilled migrant worker visas to “F*** YOURSELF in the face.”
“The hate America crowd, and they hate America, the hate America crowd there. When I say hate America, they hate the United States of America, the nation state of America, and American citizens,” Bannon said.
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