Steve Bannon used 'Confederate code words' to describe second Trump term ambitions: report

Trump ally Steve Bannon is now using what reporter Jonathan Karl describes as "Confederate code words" to describe his hopes for a second Trump presidency.

Writing in The Atlantic, Karl revealed that Bannon earlier this year heaped praise upon a speech that former President Donald Trump delivered that Bannon described as the former president's "Come Retribution" speech.

Karl was then startled to learn afterward that this particular phrase originated in the Confederacy during the American Civil War.

"What I didn’t realize was that 'Come Retribution,' according to some Civil War historians, served as the code words for the Confederate Secret Service’s plot to take hostage — and eventually assassinate — President Abraham Lincoln," Karl wrote.

What's more, Karl said that Bannon recommended that he read a book about the Confederate plot to assassinate Lincoln, which the journalist said erased "any doubt that he was intentionally using the Confederate code words to describe Trump’s speech."

The Trump speech in question was about retribution against his longtime enemies, and he used it to call for a purge of his political opponents from the United States government.

"We will drive out the globalists; we will cast out the communists," Trump said during the speech. "We will throw off the political class that hates our country... We will beat the Democrats. We will rout the fake news media. We will expose and appropriately deal with the RINOs. We will evict Joe Biden from the White House. And we will liberate America from these villains and scoundrels once and for all."