Bannon Joins Shapiro Pile-On at TPUSA Event: ‘Ben, I’ve Known You a Long Time…’

Mediate ^ | Dec 19th, 2025 | Michael Luciano

[The_Media_never_lie]

Ben, I’ve known you a long time, brother. You can’t handle the truth. Let’s face it, Ben Shapiro is the farthest thing from MAGA. Let’s be blunt. He is a hardcore never-Trumper. He’s a hardcore never-Trumper. In the spring of ’16, he tried to upend Breitbart. He walked off the job, made a big deal about some incident in Mar-a-Lago with Corey Lewandowski. He tried to turn it to Ted Cruz from Donald Trump because he hated Donald Trump. In the general election, he barely supported Donald Trump. The first sign of– when President Trump gets sent back to Mar-a-Lago, the very first individual that jumped on the Ron DeSantis train, the Israel First train, was Ben Shapiro.

And those are the darkest days we had. In ’21 and ’22, you guys were there. He’s consistently been against Trump, and now the President Trump doesn’t back the Greater Israel Project. What is Greater Israel? It’s not about Israel itself. It’s about an expansionist Israel, an imperial Israel that Netanyahu and that crowd have thought up. And the Israel First crowd is Ben Shapiro, Tel Aviv Mark Levin, and many others that want to put that ahead of America’s interests!

[The_Media_never_lie]

I hate it when these guys publicly feud.

I can no longer listen to Mark Levin. I have for years listened because he is so informative. However, I was always concerned someone might hear me listening to his unhinged rants. No longer a concern, I am through with Mark Levin. Yes, I support Israel's right to exist, but not Imperial Israel.

[jacknhoo]

Let’s not forget Tucker Carlson is not MAGA either.

[one guy in new jersey]

Is Mark Levin still an FR denizen?

[stanne]

Most people, actually, everyone I know and know of, who started in with Trump hatred back in 2015, tripping over themselves for Cruz, or even Jeb (bushies) , don’t get over it

Ever

Just saying

[Jane Long]

RAV cut out several minutes of Bannon’s speech, when he began giving it to Lil Ben.

Shame on RAV .... it’s not like the entire speech wasn’t available, elsewhere.

[Socon-Econ]

A bunch of rightists who are more concerned with fighting each other and finger pointing than with explaining common positions to voters.

[tired&retired]

We must realize that the enemy is pure evil and will do all that he can to create infighting.

Matthew 10:21 states that children will rise up against their parents and cause them to be put to death. It reflects the idea of familial betrayal during times of great strife and persecution.

“And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.”

[Biblebelter]

Bushbot=Cruzbot=Ronbot

Over the years the above has been well documented on FR.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

What's the gripe with Israel? I don't get it. Israel is the only normal country in the region. She is surrounded by thousands and thousands of square miles of violent crazy camel humpers and moon god worshipers.

I can understand gripes over funding of military assistance etc. But Israel itself, what the heck is the gripe?

[FreeReign]

I didn’t see Bannon’s speech last night. I hope he didn’t waste too much time on feuding with Shapiro.

[stanne]

I have people who block out rules of elections and basic human interaction in favor of DeSantis

The Trump hatred there is hair-raising nuts .

[Dartoid]

Sorry but that is just stupid to say that you can’t support multiple people. Desantis has been an outstanding governor.

[UnwashedPeasant]

I don’t know who the writer is, but he is dishonest and obsessed with being anti-Israel, which makes him Woke Republican at best.

Ben Shapiro was anti-Trump at the same time JD Vance and many real Conservatives were anti-Trump, but Shapiro has long been converted to very pro-Trump.

[alstewartfan]

OBVIOUSLY. BUT JD is a lock.

[dforest]

Perhaps Shapiro could quit the attacks first.

Shapiro is not a conservative and he is not a Christian.

[dforest]

Stop with the woke republican crap. It is made up division tactics.

[EandH Dad]

I have to mute Mark Levin or walk away. He has been, and can still be, informative. I can’t take his theatrics. It’s so painfully obvious it’s an act when he shifts from a wild eyed, frothing at the mouth, screaming, unhinged spectacle to instantly becoming a cool calm endorser of some product or book. He should be too old for theatrical drama. I know I am.

[brent13a]

What's the gripe with Israel?

The progressive leftists and progressive rightists both have “awakened” to new realities based on grievance politics. In this case they share a hatred of Israel because for the leftwing the Jews are bloodthirsty warmongers (while the leftists align with the muslims) and for the progressive rightists the Jews control everything and are the reason for DEI and all the West’s problems (the woke rightists also align themselves with muslims).

Both the progressive and woke right and left kiss the feet of Qatar and Iran and China, while the progressive woke rightist also hasn’t met a Nazi (Hitler) or modern Russian leader (Putin) they’ve ever disliked.

[Theodore R.]

I have never heard Mark Levin say anything inconsistent with conservative principles.

[HYPOCRACY]

I thought Shapiro’s speech was terrific.