MAGA influencer Steve Bannon insisted that psychiatrists, not guns, were to blame for the deaths that occurred during this week’s mass shooting in New York City.
After four people allegedly died at the hands of gunman Shane Devon Tamura, Bannon spoke to anti-drug advocate Sheila Matthews about the incident.
“This is epitomized yesterday, where we know the gun, the ammo… We know all of it,” Bannon said, “except the key thing of actually, what’s sitting in the evidence sitting in the car about what this young man’s issues are.”
“This is about access to somebody’s mind,” Matthews asserted. “We know, in fact, that the psychiatrist and the drugs are never mentioned. What is all common in all these different mass killings is withholding of mental health records and withholding of the psychiatrist’s name.”
“Okay, so this is a well-crafted marketing campaign by the behavioral health industry to divert away from their products and their services that are killing people,” she continued. “Some of these hits are done financially to get more of the mental health money back in. And others are targeted hits. But you can’t ever see that because this industry is hiding behind a well-oiled relationship with the federal government.”
Bannon demanded the name of Tamura’s psychiatrist.
“We should know the medications,” he insisted. “Because the medications are the ammo. That’s why these kids are doing it.”
Matthews called psychiatrists “the enemy within.”
“There’s so much about these mass shootings that nobody knows about,” she remarked. “And it’s really a network of really sick psychiatrists that could be doing this to gain more money.”
“They’re accessories,” Bannon agreed. “They’re accessories to these acts.”