Steve Bannon Reportedly Compared Congress Under Trump to the Russian Duma Under Putin

Isaac Schorr Oct 13th, 2025, 9:43 am

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Former Trump White House chief strategist and influential far-right commentator Steve Bannon reportedly compared Congress’s role in the second Trump administration to that of the Russian Duma under dictator Vladmir Putin .

In an expansive report for , Josh Dawsey reported that President Donald Trump’s recent actions — including his Department of Justice’s prosecution of New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey — “reflect a buoyed commander in chief who feels emboldened to go further after feeling as though he has faced surprisingly little resistance to his ambitious agenda in the first

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