Steve Bannon

Steve Bannon Wants To Turn The Press Into The New Hillary

... fraud and served as his own state television propagandist —the cable networks are focused on perhaps the least significant news item of the past 24 hours: Tiffany Trump’s voter registration status. State election records show the president’s 23-year-old daughter is currently registered to vote in both New York City and Philadelphia, NBC News reported. (Until Wednesday, Steve Bannon was similarly registered in New York as well as Florida.). The relevance here is that Trump has pledged to investigate the nonexistent problem of widespread voter fraud in the United States, singling out “those registered to vote in two states”. I will be asking for a major investigation into VOTER FRAUD, including those registered to vote in two states, those who are illegal and. Chip Somodevilla/Getty. Donald Trump is going at a blistering pace. How long can he keep it up. Judging by the flood of executive actions coming out of the White House—on immigration, torture, Obamacare, and a host of other controversial issues—you would have thought Trump had won the popular vote by ten million ...

Trump's Chief Strategist Fashions Himself An Evil Nerd

... Middle Earth. On the telephone, Mr. Bannon spoke in blunt but calm tones, peppered with a dose of profanities, and humorously referred to himself at one point as “Darth Vader. He said, with ironic relish, that Mr. Trump was elected by a surge of support from the working class hobbits and deplorables.”. Bannon has done this before. In November, he told The Hollywood Reporter that “darkness is good” before listing some of his role models. “Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That’s power.”. It’s also not the first time he’s trotted out the “hobbits and deplorables” line. He used it while speaking to Breitbart News Daily last month. Or whatever the dystopian American version of Isengard is. So, yeah, Bannon likes himself some geeky properties. But Star Wars and Lord of the Rings are hardly deep cuts. It’s not like he’s showing off any real geek credentials. Also, he seems to be seriously misreading both Star Wars and LOTR. The Hobbits of Middle Earth are simple folk, yes, ...

Steve Bannon Is Not Ideological

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The Media Is The 'opposition Party

... humiliated.". Bannon, who is the former head of Breitbart News, a decidely pro-Trump media organization, made the remarks only days after Trump took over the presidency and in the midst of a continued back-and-forth with members of the media. Trump and high-level White House staffers attacked the media over the weekend and earlier this week over percieved slights after several reports pointed out how Trump drew a smaller crowd at last Friday's inauguration on the National Mall than former President Obama in both 2009 and 2013 and Saturday's Women's March on Washington. "The elite media got it dead wrong, 100 percent dead wrong," Bannon said of the November election, calling it "a humiliating defeat that they will never wash away, that will always be there.". Bannon also tore into the media over their criticisms of White House press secretary Sean ...

Bannon Was Registered To Vote In Two States

... changed his registration to Baldolato’s house in August, after it  discovered  that his registration address was an empty house in Florida where he did not live. Badolato is a friend of Bannon’s, The Guardian said, who collaborated with him on some of his political documentary films and wrote for Breitbart News, the conservative news website Bannon ran before joining Trump’s campaign. Badolato declined at the time to specify whether Bannon was actually living on his property, as is required under the registration rules of the Florida Division of Elections. Bannon did not cast a ballot in Florida, according to state records. Trump specifically mentioned voters registered in two states on Wednesday while calling for a “major” investigation of alleged voter fraud nationwide. “I will be asking for a major investigation into VOTER FRAUD, including those registered to vote in two states, those who are illegal and…even those registered to vote who are dead (and many for a long time),” he tweeted. "Depending on results, we will strengthen up voting procedures!”. ...

Trump Adviser Stephen Bannon Is Registered To Vote In Two States

... Trump calls for 'major investigation' into 2016 election voter fraud. During a controversial first week in office, that saw the President signing a number of executive orders to revoke Obama administration policies, Mr Trump has circulated the lie through Twitter and via his Press Secretary that millions of people voted illegally. The White House has not provided any evidence for their claim – as it has been exhaustively debunked by state election commissions. But the minority President points to 'illegal votes' that resulted in his loss in the popular vote by nearly three million. "I will be asking for a major investigation into VOTER FRAUD, including those registered to vote in two states, those who are illegal, and. even those registered to vote who are dead (and many for a long time," he wrote. "Depending on results, we will strengthen up voting procedures.". Donald Trump ...

Who Is Steve Bannon

... the corrupt vested interests of both parties. In short, Trump conceptually gerrymandered the whole of the United States using intuition, charisma and courage alone. He has also pushed this realignment together with an unmistakable passion for an authentic social justice. Many are waiting to see if the Trump administration will follow through on his pro-life pledges. How confident are you that it will. I think Trump will certainly follow-through on the life issues, remembering the 58% loyal support from Evangelicals that he achieved, and the 52% of Catholics who voted for him. But also because, as far as one can tell, he has come to believe sincerely in the natural justice of the pro-life cause. How can we trust that Trump will uphold the dignity of the human person given his treatment of women and past business practices. The president-elect is a ...

Trump’s Ex-breitbart Advisor Bannon Is Drafting Executive Orders

... has any previous government or legal experience — have reportedly been writing executive orders without any input from the agencies they would affect. Aides told Politico that Steve Bannon , the president’s chief strategist, and Stephen Miller , the senior White House advisor for policy, have made almost no effort to consult with federal agency lawyers or lawmakers as they wrote executive orders. Bannon, the former chairman of Breitbart, and Miller, a Republican political operative who’s written most of Trump’s major speeches, are writing many of the orders based on ideas that came from transition officials or “landing teams” who weren’t working in the White House. The orders have come so quickly, and from seemingly out of nowhere, that aides sometimes aren’t even sure which actions Trump will sign until they cross his desk. “He was determined to show people that he’s getting to ...

Bannon Threatened Elementary School Officials, Records Attest

... sue the school, which had accepted the twins for kindergarten enrollment on the initiative of Bannon’s ex-wife, Mary Louise Piccard. “[O]n June 6, 2001, Steve Bannon called me and said that he did not agree with Mary Lou’s decision to place the twins at Odyssey,” wrote Dr. Steven R. Mecham, then director of Odyssey Program school in Malibu, California. “He said that he would refuse to pay tuition to Odyssey and that he would not allow them to be enrolled here with us.”. Mecham wrote that Bannon “expressed to me that he did not want Emily and Madeleine to attend a progressive school. I replied to him that Odyssey is not a progressive school, but would more accurately be described as an academic, developmental school. He also said that if we decided to accept the twins, he would sue me personally, as well as the school.”. Bannon also threatened an administrator at Westland School in Los Angeles, according to a letter in the case file from the school’s director. In the letter , dated June 21, 2001, the ...

Steve Bannon Hires Breitbart Writer Julia Hahn, One Of Paul Ryan’s Fiercest Critics, As A White House Aide

... Right-wing commentator Julia Hahn, who will serve as an aide to Bannon as he fulfills his role of White House strategist, has accused Ryan of fleeing “grieving moms trying to show him photos of their children killed by his open borders agenda” and claimed that he was secretly leading a “months-long campaign to elect Hillary Clinton,” according to The Washington Post on Monday. “She’ll be Bannon’s Bannon and make Bannon look moderate,” said conservative writer and editor at large of the Weekly Standard William Kristol when talking to The Post. “Her tendency is to fight and fight, often to the extreme.”. The Post also claims that “a number of House Republicans” confided to the newspaper that they believe Bannon’s hiring of Hahn is a sign that he could go on the attack against them if they defy Trump’s will. “This is obviously a provocative act and clearly an intentional act,” said Peter Wehner, an official who has worked for three Republican presidents and is a personal friend of Ryan’s. “Bannon is willing to napalm the bridges with congressional Republicans.” He also added that many Republican congressmen are making the mistake of believing that “Bannon and Trump aren’t ...

Donald Trump’s Nationalist Speech Was Pure Steve Bannon

... of government.” And he promised: “The forgotten men and women of this country are forgotten no more.” He gestured with a clenched fist as the speech ended. Related: Don't kid yourself—Donald Trump is winning. The new president portrayed a nation that is “ravaged,” one where “rusted out factories are scattered like tombstones.” He took aim at “crime and gangs and drugs,” promising to end this scourge. The economic recovery of the past eight years went unacknowledged. He mentioned “welfare” as if it was an entitlement, something it hasn’t been since the 1990 s. Try Newsweek for only $1.25 per week. Trump made “America First” the center of his address. The tacit message to the ex-presidents gathered on the west side of the Capitol, and to all of the politicians there, Republicans as much as Democrats, was that they had not put the nation first in the formation of its trade, immigration and defense policies. “From this day forward, it’s only going to be America first,” Trump said. Related Stories. Trump’s Inauguration and the Era of Fear. There were feints at ...