Right-wing influencer Steve Bannon doubled down on his battle against billionaire Elon Musk over the use of immigrant visas that Bannon claims take jobs away from Americans.
After Musk defended H-1B visas last week, Bannon returned to his War Room podcast on Monday to attack the billionaire on behalf of his MAGA followers.
“Elon Musk has already surrendered,” he insisted. “The H-1B visa program is a total and complete scam to destroy the American worker. Because naturally, capitalists always wanna, they always wanna go to the lowest-cost production.”
“This is just about a compensation in indentured servants, basically quasi-slave labor in our own country by the enlightened oligarchs of Silicon Valley,” he continued. “This is like the Borgias or the Medici’s from Renaissance Italy, kind of these nation-states where Silicon Valley and these oligarchs are the feudal lords or the, as Ben Harnwell says, sociopathic overlords.”
“No, we’re not gonna get together and have a group hug!”
Bannon argued that H-1B …