Tag Archives: Stephen Bannon

New York Magazine reports: With it looking increasingly unlikely Donald Trump will be heading to the White House, the prospect that he will partner with his campaign CEO, Breitbart executive chair Steve Bannon, to launch a Trump TV network seems more and more probable. In the meantime, the right-wing website is staffing up with potential on-air talent. On Monday, Breitbart …

Joe Klein writes for TIME Magazine: Donald Trump will probably lose this election, which is good news. Here’s the bad news: that loss may be just the beginning of Trump’s toxic presence in American political life. Nightmare scenarios are floating through Republican circles. The best cases posit a bitter and continuing Republican civil war between the Trump and “Establishment” factions …

Directed by Trump campaign CEO Stephen Bannon and produced by Citizens United. Seriously. Former Family Research Council vice president Ken Klukowski recaps the film for Breitbart: “A human civilization’s best chance of survival is to anchor itself in the God of creation,” Christian evangelist and reality star Phil Robertson declared in Torchbearer, an epic documentary launching in select theaters on …

From the editorial board of the Washington Post: One of the most disturbing aspects of the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump is the legitimization it has provided for extremist discourse. Rhetoric that properly has been taboo in this country for a generation — overt racism, sexism, anti-Semitism — has begun to seep back into politics, with Mr. Trump and his …

The totally not racist level heads at Breitbart have decided that it’s totally not racist to illustrate a story about the black president of the United States with an image of Harambe, the gorilla recently put down at the Cincinnati Zoo. As you surely know, Breitbart is run by Stephen Bannon, who last month became the third and latest Trump …

Via Politico: Stephen K. Bannon, the new CEO of the Donald Trump campaign, was charged with misdemeanor domestic violence, battery and dissuading a witness following an incident in early January 1996, though the case was ultimately dismissed, according to a police report and court documents. The Santa Monica, Calif., police report says that Bannon’s then-wife claimed he pulled at her …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Glenn Beck spent most of today’s radio show calling upon Republicans to abandon Donald Trump in the wake of the announcement that the GOP presidential nominee has hired Breitbart’s Steve Bannon to serve as the campaign’s CEO. Bannon is “possibly the most dangerous guy in all of American politics,” Beck said, declaring that …

This morning former Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro unloaded on his ex-boss Stephen Bannon in a Daily Wire column in which he called the site “a cesspool for alt-right white supremacists.” This afternoon Shapiro expounded on that opinion on CNN, where he also coined a new name for Donald Trump. Via Raw Story: “Steve is basically going to tell Trump to …

Earlier this year, former Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro was part of a mass exodus of staffers after the site refused to denounce the alleged physical assault of one of their reporters by then-Trump campaign chairman Corey Lewandowski, who now works for CNN. Today Shapiro unloads on his former boss, Breitbart chairman Stephen Bannon, who was just named to run the …

They’re panicking. Good. The New York Times reports: Donald J. Trump has shaken up his presidential campaign for the second time in two months, hiring a top executive from the conservative website Breitbart News and promoting a senior adviser in an effort to right his faltering campaign. Stephen Bannon, the executive chairman of Breitbart News LLC, will become the Republican …