Conservative talk host and Human Events senior editor Jack Posobiec said during an appearance on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” show that the U.S. “national security state” views “MAGA” Republicans with more suspicion than terrorist organizations.

“…The problem is the institutions of our national government or national security state, they don’t view Antifa, or these types of terrorists, or Islamic terrorists, or these other radicals that are what they call the ‘insider threats’ as the problem,” Posobiec, a former U.S. Navy intelligence officer, began.

“They view the insider threat as MAGA, they view the insider threat as the American people who don’t want to be replaced by cheap foreign labor. Or the American people who don’t want their sons and daughters to be transed, or the American people who are going and praying in a devout traditional Orthodox church or a traditional Latin right Mass they view you as the insider threat to their designs,” he added.

“In the same way that the counter snipers of the Secret Service said, ‘Well, hold on, we weren’t looking for threats here.’ Yeah, you were looking for threats in the wrong place. The guy was right in front of your window. You dropped coverage, and you left at an opportune time (kind of funny how that happened),” Posobiec noted further, referencing the attempt on now-President-elect Donald Trump’s life last summer during a speech in Butler, Pa.

“They view MAGA and the American people as the insider threat — not all the others,” he continued before Bannon asked him to elaborate.

“[Trump Defense Secretary nominee and former Fox News host] Pete Hegseth wrote a whole book on this — but when the National Guard held their deployment, remember Pete Hegseth had his orders pulled from going to the National Guard for Joe Biden’s inauguration,” Posobiec continued.

“He wrote this book, ‘The War on Warriors,’ all about it. I reported at the time in real-time from sources that the National Guard was conducting vetting, ideological vetting of our military to determine who would be allowed to participate in that National Guard deployment, which was there in Washington DC, where the War Room is ensconced, became the imperial capital under occupation for several months. Nancy Pelosi wanted pill boxes up there and crew-served weapons,” he added.

“So the ideological vetting of the National Guard was, do you like on your Facebook page ‘The Tea Party?’ Do you have a picture of the Gadsden flag? Do you like Turning Point USA or the NRA? Do you have pictures up about the 2nd Amendment? Or Pete Hegseth, of course, he’s got a traditional Christian tattoo that is called the Jerusalem Cross, which goes back to the Crusades, it goes back to a very ancient form of Christian symbology,” the editor and conservative podcaster went on.

“And yet they view all of these things — the Gadsden flag and a Christian cross are certainly not inside threats. They’re, in fact, patriot analysis, patriot signals.”