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Exclamation Who is Steve Bannon?

Who is this guy in the White House called Steve Bannon?
By Johnathan Vankin
RE: http://www.inquisitr.com/3428291/who...rump-campaign/

Donald Trump named Stephen K. “Steve” Bannon to be his presidential “chief strategist”, and top White House adviser on Sunday. Trump hired his longtime friend to run his campaign in August, and the millionaire executive chairman of Breitbart News Network turned the Trump campaign around and guided the former reality TV star to the White House.

Bannon’s ruthless and uncompromising style is reflected in Breitbart, an ultra-conservative online media group which has been called “the go-to destination for conservatives who consider Drudge and Fox News a little too restrained and statesmanlike.”

So who is Steve Bannon, and what would he bring to the Trump campaign? Below is a CNN video in which former Breitbart News reporter Ben Shapiro discusses his former boss, whom Shapiro has called “a vindictive, nasty figure, infamous for verbally abusing supposed friends and threatening enemies,” and “a smarter version of Trump,”

Below the video are five facts that voters should know about the man with Donald Trump’s ear in the White House.

1. Steve Bannon Is A Former Goldman Sachs Investment Banker

Though his unkempt and bare-knuckles style might not suggest it, Steve Bannon began his career as part of the Wall Street establishment, as a banker at the firm whose name became synonymous with the financial industry corruption and arrogance that led to the 2008 crash — though Bannon left the firm in 1990 to start his own smaller Wall Street firm.

While at Goldman Sachs during the 1980s, according to a profile by Bloomberg News, Bannon became part of that decade’s boom in corporate “hostile takeovers,” working mainly in defense of companies which had been targeted by corporate raiders like Michael Milken. That decade also had its own major financial crash, also spurred by the often illegal activities of investment bankers.

But Bannon was also part of several major takeovers himself, including one deal involving a company known as Bain Capital, spearheaded by a rising executive named Mitt Romney.

2. Bannon’s Hiring Was Seen As A Victory For White Supremacists — By White Supremacists

According to a report in the online Daily Beast news magazine, numerous racist organizations are celebrating the elevation of Steve Bannon to Trump campaign boss, because Breitbart News, they say, has long been sympathetic to their white supremacist cause, sometimes known as the “Alt-Right.”

“Latterly, Breitbart emerged as a nationalist site and done great stuff on immigration in particular,” Peter Brimelow, of the white supremacist site VDARE, told The Daily Beast, adding that he met personally with Bannon in July and the two “exchanged pleasantries about each other’s work,” according to the report.

“Breitbart has elective affinities with the Alt Right, and the Alt Right has clearly influenced Breitbart,” added Richard Spencer, head of the white supremacist National Policy Institute. “In this way, Breitbart has acted as a ‘gateway’ to Alt Right ideas and writers.”
Former Breitbart writer Ben Shapiro also says that “under Bannon’s leadership, breitbart openly embraced the white supremacist Alt-Right.”

3. Bannon Has Been Accused of Being an Anti-Semite

Bannon’s ex-wife said that when she and Bannon were deciding on a private school for their daughters, Bannon complained about one of the schools they were considering, annoyed by “the number of Jews that attend. He said that he doesn’t like Jews and that he doesn’t like the way they raise their kids to be ‘whiny brats’ and that he didn’t want the girls going to school with Jews.”

At another school, Bannon, the ex-wife said, asked a school official, “why there were so many Chanukah books in the library.” And at a third, she said, Bannon “asked me if it bothered me that the school used to be in a Temple. I said no and asked why he asked…he did not respond.”

But the anti-Semitic remarks are not the extent if Bannon’s alleged dislike for Jews. His Breitbart News Network — one of the first conservatuve media outlets to openly back Trump’s candidacy, “has not only chummed the internet’s waters with endless fodder for racists, but has also explicitly worked to normalize a set of white-nationalist and anti-Semitic ideas,” according to New York Magazine.

Under Bannon’s leadership, the Trump campaign itself veered into anti-Semitic territory, unveiling a TV ad just days before the election that the Anti-Defamation League said exploited “subjects that anti-Semites have used for ages,” including the idea that a secret conspiracy of wealthy Jewish people rules “the system.”

4. Bannon Produced And Wrote The Film Clinton Cash

Donald Trump has spared nothing in his attacks on his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton — accusing her of being the “MVP” of the terrorist group ISIS, and even referring to her as “the devil” — only to see Clinton’s poll numbers rise while his own fall.

But the hiring of Bannon appears to signal that Trump believes he can right the ship of his campaign with more attacks on Clinton, not fewer. Bannon is the financial and creative force behind the pseudo-documentary film Clinton Cash, which purports to document how Hillary and Bill Clinton have allegedly traded political favors for money from foreign governments.

Critics have slammed the film as thin on evidence and sourcing, and even the conservative Fox News called one the film’s key claims “incredibly misleading.”

But with Steve Bannon at the helm, the Donald Trump campaign is expected to ramp up attacks on Clinton based on allegations made in the film.

Gannon also wrote, produced, and directed numerous other, similar documentaries, including a film praising Sarah Palin, and one attacking the Occupy Wall Street movement.

5. Bannon Owns A Piece Of The Legendary Sitcom Seinfeld

As an investment banker, Steve Bannon was instrumental in negotiating a deal that sold the independent Hollywood production company Castle Rock Entertainment to billionaire media mogul Ted Turner. One benefit from his involvement in the deal was that Bannon ended up owning a percentage of Castle Rock’s most valuable property, the massively popular, and profitable, sitcom Seinfeld.

Reportedly, the millions Bannon collects in royalty dividends from Seinfeld has not only bolstered his own personal fortune but helped finance many of his conservative media projects, including numerous “documentary” films.

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Steve Bannon: Who is Trump's key adviser?
By: Jonathan Greeblatt
RE: http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37971742

Steve Bannon, formerly the driving force behind the right-wing Breitbart News website, has quickly emerged as one of the key players in Donald Trump's White House.
Mr Bannon serves as chief strategist, a role that gives him a direct line to President Trump. His influence has already been seen in some key decisions made by the new president.

His appointment was at odds with the Republican mainstream, which had been the subject of repeated attacks by Breitbart, and which is represented in the White House by Mr Trump's chief of staff Reince Priebus.

The combative site serves up an anti-establishment agenda that critics accuse of xenophobia and misogyny. Under Mr Bannon, it became one of the most-read conservative news and opinion sites in the US.

'Not warm and fuzzy'

Born in Virginia in 1953, Mr Bannon spent four years in the navy before completing an MBA at Harvard. He then went into investment banking and, after a spell with Goldman Sachs, moved successfully into media financing, helping to get the comedy show Seinfeld, among others, off the ground.

He shifted into film production, working in Hollywood before branching out into independent political documentary making, paying homage to former US President Ronald Reagan, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement.

Through this work he met Andrew Breitbart, a staunchly conservative media entrepreneur who wanted to create a site that challenged what he saw as liberal-dominated mainstream media.

When Andrew Breitbart died of a heart attack in 2012, Mr Bannon took over as head of Breitbart News and drove it forward.

The site positioned itself as a populist, bellicose, conspiracy-tinged outlet for right-wing Americans disillusioned with mainstream politicians.

"We call ourselves 'the Fight Club.' You don't come to us for warm and fuzzy," the Washington Post quoted Mr Bannon as saying in January 2016.

"We think of ourselves as virulently anti-establishment, particularly 'anti-' the permanent political class. We say [Republican House Speaker] Paul Ryan was grown in a petri dish at the Heritage Foundation [a conservative think-tank]."

Some of Breitbart's headlines have attracted controversy. A conservative commentator was called a "renegade Jew", and the work of reproductive rights organisation Planned Parenthood was likened to the Holocaust.

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This guy give's me the creeps! How and why him and Trump are so close can only be speculated on what he has on Trump? This is the last guy I'd have in the White House or any House!!
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