Steve Bannon's podcast is REMOVED from YouTube hours after Rudy Giuliani's appearance

Steve Bannon’s podcast has been removed from YouTube just hours after Rudy Giuliani appeared on the show blaming the MAGA mob riot that left five dead on the Democrats for ‘censoring and suppressing’ Trump supporters. 

The YouTube account for Bannon’s War Room podcast was taken down Friday for violating the platform’s Terms of Service, according to the Washington Examiner. 

A Friday evening search for the podcast brought up an error message reading: ‘This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.’ 

Youtube had warned earlier this week that it would ban accounts that continued to spread misinformation about voter fraud. 

Giuliani, Donald Trump’s personal attorney and the man who spearheaded his failed legal battle to overturn the presidential election, had appeared on the show earlier Friday where he defended Wednesday’s rioters who stormed the US Capitol.

He pointed the blame for the attack, which sent lawmakers fleeing for their lives and has triggered calls for Trump’s impeachment, on ‘the fascists who now running the Democrat Party’. 

Giuliani dismissed the viewpoint of Democrats as well as a growing number of Republicans that the president incited Wednesday’s violence. 

‘Most of them hadn’t come there with implements to do it and also led on by people from, you know, groups that are experts at it. Believe me, Trump people were not scaling the wall. So there’s nothing to it that he incited anything,’ said Giuliani of the rioters, who Democrats have labeled ‘domestic terrorists’. 

‘And also there’s equal if not more responsibility on the fascists who now running the Democrat Party, who have imposed censorship on these people, who have been singling them out for unfair treatment since the IRS started going after conservative groups.

‘The media may deny it, but those people know it. They know their freedom of religion is being taken away. They know their freedom of speech is virtually decimated.’  

Giuliani also continued to push unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud – claims that have not been backed up with evidence and have failed to gain any ground in dozens of lawsuits. 

‘You keep being told you can’t say there was fraud. They know there was fraud. Probably half of those people there observed it,’ he told Bannon, a former Trump adviser who was arrested in the summer of 2020 for an alleged massive border wall scam.

‘And then they have phonies get up and say there’s no fraud. It’s like hearing someone saying they didn’t rob your home and they did rob your home and they took all your belongings. So are they angry? Of course they’re angry.’

Giuliani said that it was a ‘credit’ to anyone who was not violent and, despite the mob being supporters of the president, pushed the blame for their actions onto Democrats.  

‘They’re very, very angry. And I think in light of that, the mere fact that 99.9% of them did nothing but act appropriately is a credit to them,’ he said.

‘The responsibility here has to be put also on the left, who has conducted a reign of terror all this year. 

‘So a lot of responsibility comes from the people that are imposing the suppression. It’s like the kind of thing that happens in a government where people are suppressed; they rise up.’ 

‘And given that, it was quite surprising to me that it was so few people, that the consequences were terrible. And there were no doubt that there were professionals and activists that were helping to make it worse.’ 

Giuliani’s defense of the violent mob that desecrated the US Capitol and Trump’s role in sparking it comes as the Washington DC Attorney General suggested the former New York City mayor could also be investigated for inciting Wednesday’s violence. 

Less than two hours before hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the capitol, Giuliani took to the stage at Trump’s rally and told demonstrators to pursue a ‘trial by combat’. 

DC AG Karl Racine told Good Morning America his office was investigating who was behind Wednesday’s attack – both the perpetrators on the ground and those who encouraged them. 

‘The real question is how far up does it go? Clearly the Capitol was ground central in all of this mob’s behavior,’ he said.  

‘Donald Trump Jr, Giuliani, even the president of the United States were calling on their supporters and hate groups to go to the Capitol and in the words of Rudy Giuliani ‘exercise combat justice’.

‘We’re going to investigate not only the mobsters but also those who invited the violence,’ he said.    

The removal of Bannon’s right-wing show comes in the midst of a purge by tech platforms of content that ‘incites violence’.

On Friday night, Twitter announced it had permanently banned Trump’s account due to the risk of ‘further incitement to violence’.

‘After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them — specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter — we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence,’ the company wrote.  

Earlier on Friday, former national security adviser Michael Flynn and attorney Sidney Powell – two Trump loyalists – were also permanently banned by Twitter. 

Discord also announced Friday that it had banned the server The Donald which was connected the TheDonald dot Win and the Donald subreddit. 

Facebook and Instagram had already banned the president’s account ‘at least’ until his term is over on January 20, if not indefinitely.  

Meanwhile, this isn’t the first time Bannon’s show has been taken down.

Back in November, Twitter temporarily banned the podcast and YouTube removed an episode after the right-wing pundit called for the beheading of FBI director Christopher Wray and Dr. Anthony Fauci.

In the episode he first suggested firing the duo then said: ‘I’d actually like to go back to the old times of Tudor England, I’d put the heads on pikes, right, I’d put them at the two corners of the White House as a warning to federal bureaucrats.’