Steve Bannon mentioned methods to ‘take down’ Pope Francis with Jeffrey Epstein, DOJ information counsel | EUROtoday

Steve Bannon mentioned plans to “take down” Pope Francis with Jeffrey Epstein, in response to new information shared by the Department of Justice.

“Will take down [Pope] Francis,” Bannon seems to have written in a message to the pedophile financier in June 2019. “The Clintons, Xi, Francis, EU – come on brother.”

Bannon, a former presidential advisor to Donald Trump and who reportedly identifies as a Roman Catholic, was extremely crucial of Francis, viewing his progressive world agenda as opposite to his personal “sovereigntist” stance. In a 2018 interview with The Spectator Bannon described the Pope as “beneath contempt,” and accused him of “siding with globalist elites.”

The trade with Epstein seems to indicate Bannon attempting to additional his plans, asking whether or not the financier has learn In the Closet of the Vaticana 2019 ebook by French journalist Frédéric Martel that included the bombshell declare that 80 p.c of the clergy working within the Vatican are homosexual.

Bannon had beforehand appeared to have expressed curiosity in turning the ebook into a movie, telling Epstein “you are now exec producer of ‘ITCOTV’.” It is unclear how critical that supply was.

The financier replies saying “Chomsky asking when film,” in obvious reference to mental Noam Chomsky with whom Epstein was recognized to be shut with.

Elsewhere within the information, paperwork present that Epstein emailed himself on April 1 2019 a message studying “in the closet of the Vatican,” and likewise despatched Bannon an article titled “Pope Francis or Steve Bannon? Catholics must choose.”

“Easy choice,” Bannon replied.

The Independent has contacted representatives of Steve Bannon for remark.

Bannon will not be the one MAGA acolyte to have run-ins with Pope Francis. Though he paid tribute to the pontiff following his loss of life final yr, describing him as “a good man, [who] worked hard and loved the world,” Donald Trump additionally had historic disputes with Francis.

Ahead of Trump’s first presidency in 2016, Francis criticized the incoming president over this vow to construct a wall between Mexico and the U.S., saying “a person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian.”

In January final yr, someday earlier than Trump’s second inauguration, Francis spoke out concerning the Republican president’s plans to hold out mass deportations.

“If it is true, it will be a disgrace, because it makes the poor wretches who have nothing pay the bill for the imbalance. It won’t do. This is not the way to solve things,” the Pope wrote.

The Pope additionally clashed with Vice President JD Vance, who’s a Roman Catholic. In an interview Vance had put ahead an thought often known as ordo amoris, saying: “There’s this old school – and I think it’s a very Christian concept, by the way – that you love your family and then you love your neighbour and then you love your community and then you love your fellow citizens and your own country, and then after that you can focus and prioritise the rest of the world.”

Francis contradicted the concept there needs to be a hierarchy of affection, writing: “Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups.”

Vance later met the pontiff throughout his journey to Rome, assembly with him on Easter Sunday final yr and sharing a homily with him. Pope Francis died a day in a while April 21 2025.