Steve Bannon breaks silence after being accused of doing Nazi salute

I’m still not allowed [...] inside CPAC by the way,

Lang insisted on Friday

Elon threw up a Roman salute, and then the other thing at CPAC – Bannon gets up there – this was some sick s***,

Fuentes said on his Thursday night podcast

Steve Bannon is a Roman Catholic Irishman ... a nationalist and populist ... a self-described Christian-Zionist ... a man who denounces racism and demands greater representation of African-Americans at tech companies ... and a man who lazily initiates a ‘Hitler Gruß’ just before saying ‘Amen,

Spencer tweeted on Friday afternoon

The Manson Family had a more coherent ideology than MAGA. And the liberal criticism that American "fascism" is merely a personality cult around Trump seems justified,

he added

Nazism has officially taken over the GOP. The few remaining conservatives have a choice: either leave the party and obstruct it—or choose to be complicit,

Eakle added

Steve Bannon, after calling for Trump to be President for life, did a Nazi salute on stage at CPAC.”

Joshua Reed Eakle, president of the Project Liberal organization, wrote

A man like Trump comes along only once or twice in a country‘s history, right?”

the former investment banker said, drawing chants of “we want Trump” from the audience

Fight, fight, fight.”

Bannon whipped out a quick wave, which several argued to be the controversial gesture, to the crowd after yelling

Once again, this is the left-wing media insulting these people, ... The speech was about them. They have to understand something: These people can't be bought, they can't be defeated.”

the right-wing podcaster continued to say, adding

Steve Bannon does a NAZI salute at the end of his CPAC speech. Someone try and convince me that he didn't."

Political commentator Brian Krassenstein posted on X

The angles between a Nazi salute & a Roman salute come down to extremely fine margins. This is also top-tier trolling."

The Concerned Citizen X account, which has more than 875,000 followers, posted

We want Trump in '28."

During his speech, Bannon repeated his calls for Trump to run for an unconstitutional third term, telling the crowd

Wajahat Alipolitical commentator

All Republicans defending Bannon and Musk's 'Roman Salute,' please do it live on TV. If it's harmless, you should have no problem doing it."

Wajahat Ali wrote, columnist and co-host of the Democracy-ish podcast, wrote

Nazism has officially taken over the GOP.”

Joshua Reed Eakle, president of the Project Liberal organization, declared in a response to a clip on X