Stephen Kevin Bannon (born November 27, 1953) is an American media executive, political figure, former investment banker, and former chief executive of Breitbart News. He served as White House Strategic Chief in the administration of US President Donald Trump during the first seven months of Trump's term.
Bannon was an officer in the United States Navy for seven years in the late 1970s and early 1980s. After the military service, he worked at Goldman Sachs as an investment banker, and left as vice president. In 1993, he became the lead director of the Biosphere 2 research project. In the 1990s, he became an executive producer in Hollywood, and produced 18 films between 1991 and 2016. In 2007, he founded Breitbart News, claimed the far right. the website he described in 2016 as the "platform for alt-right".
In August 2016, Bannon was appointed chief executive of Trump's 2016 presidential bid. Designated as Chief of Strategy in Trump administration, he left this position on August 18, 2017 and rejoined Breitbart. After leaving the White House, Bannon opposed the formation of the Republican party and supported the rebel candidate in the Republican primaries. After Roy Moore, backed by Bannon, lost the US Senate 2017 election in Alabama, Bannon's reputation as a questionable political strategist. In January 2018, Bannon was disqualified by Trump over critical comments reported in Fire and Fury and left Breitbart.
After leaving the White House, Bannon has campaigned and helped various European political movements. These include the French National Front, Hungarian Fidesz, Alternatives to Germany, the Swedish Democrats, the Dutch Party for Freedom, the Northern League of Italy, the Austrian Freedom Party, the Swiss People's Party and the pan-European identitarian movement. Bannon believes that these movements, together with Shinzo Abe of Japan, Narendra Modi of India, Russia Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping China, and Donald Trump of America, as well as similar leaders in Egypt, the Philippines, Poland and South Korea part of a global shift towards nationalism.
As a self-described economic nationalist, Bannon supports immigration reductions, free trade restrictions with China and Mexico, and increased federal income taxes for those earning more than $ 5 million annually. Bannon is skeptical of military intervention abroad and has opposed proposals for expansion of US involvement in Afghanistan, Syria and Venezuela. He has been described by some as a white nationalist but rejects his description. According to conservative commentator David French, Bannon has "done more than anyone else to introduce... alt-right into American mainstream life".
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Early life and education
Stephen Kevin Bannon was born on November 27, 1953 in Norfolk, Virginia, to Doris (nÃÆ' Â © e Herr), a housewife, and Martin J. Bannon Jr., who worked as an AT & amp; T and as a middle manager. His working class, Irish Catholic family is pro-Kennedy and pro-union Democrats.
Bannon graduated from Benedictine College Preparatory, a private, Catholic, and military secondary school in Richmond, Virginia, in 1971, who later attended Virginia Tech, where he served as president of a government student association. During the summer he worked in the local junk yard, and often went home so dirty his mother made him rinse with the hose before allowing him into the house.
He graduated from Virginia Tech College of Architecture and Urban Studies in 1976, with a bachelor's degree in urban planning. While working in the navy thereafter, he obtained a master's degree in a national security study in 1983 from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. In 1985, Bannon earned his Master of Business Administration degree with honors from Harvard Business School.
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Bannon was an officer in the United States Navy for seven years in the late 1970s and early 1980s; he served on the destroyer USS Paul F. Foster as a surface war officer in the Pacific Fleet, and subsequently declared a special assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations at the Pentagon. Bannon's job at the Pentagon was, among other things, dealing with messages between senior officers and writing reports on the state of the Navy's fleets around the world. While at the Pentagon, Bannon studied at Georgetown University in the evening and earned his master's degree in a national security study.
In 1980, Bannon was deployed to the Persian Gulf to assist Operation Eagle Claw during the Iran hostage crisis. The mission's failure marked a turning point in its political worldview from a largely apolitical to the very Reagan, which was further strengthened by the September 11 attacks. Bannon has stated, "I'm not politics until I go into service and see how bad Jimmy Carter messes things up.I'm a great admirer of Reagan, but I am what changed me to the whole re-establishment of a company that runs in Asia in 2008 and see that Bush has screwed as badly as Carter, the whole country is a disaster. "
After his departure he was ranked as lieutenant (O-3).
Business career
Investment banking
After his military service, Bannon worked at Goldman Sachs as an investment banker in the Department of Mergers and Acquisitions. In 1987, he moved from New York to Los Angeles, to help Goldman expand their presence in the entertainment industry. He stayed in this position with Goldman in Los Angeles for two years, and went with the title of vice president.
In 1990, Bannon and several colleagues from Goldman Sachs launched their own company "Bannon & amp; Co.", a boutique investment bank specializing in media. In one of Bannon & amp; Transaction Co., the company representing Westinghouse Electric who wants to sell Castle Rock Entertainment. Bannon negotiated the sale of Castle Rock to CNN, owned by Ted Turner at the time. Rather than full advisory fees, Bannon & amp; Co. received financial shares on five television shows, including Seinfeld, in its third season. Bannon still receives cash residues every time Seinfeld airs. SociÃÆ'Ã… © tÃÆ' Â © Ã… © gale buy Bannon & amp; Co. in 1998.
Earth Sciences
In 1993, while still managing Bannon & amp; Co., Bannon became acting director of the Earth Sciences Biosphere 2 research project in Oracle, Arizona. Under Bannon, the closed-system experimental project shifts the emphasis from research on human space exploration and colonization to the scientific studies of the earth's environment, pollution, and climate change. He left the project in 1995.
Entertainment and media
In the 1990s, Bannon ventured into the entertainment and media world, and became an executive producer in the Hollywood film and media industry. Bannon produced 18 films, from Sean Penn The Indian Runner (1991) to Julie Taymor Titus (1999). Bannon became a partner with entertainment industry executive Jeff Kwatinetz at the film and television management company The Firm, Inc., 2002-2003.
In 2004, Bannon made a documentary about Ronald Reagan titled In the Face of Evil. Through this filmmaking and screening, Bannon was introduced to author of the Reagan's War , Peter Schweizer and publisher Andrew Breitbart, who later described it as Leni Riefenstahl of the Tea Party movement. Bannon is involved in the financing and production of a number of films, including Fire from Heartland: Conservative Revival (2010), The Undefeated (2011), and Occupy Unmasked (2012).
Bannon persuaded Goldman Sachs to invest, in 2006, at a company known as Internet Gaming Entertainment. After the lawsuit, the company changed its name to Affinity Media, and Bannon took over as CEO. From 2007 to 2011, Bannon is chairman and CEO of Affinity Media.
In 2007, Bannon wrote an eight-page treatment for a new documentary titled Destroying the Great Satan: The Rise of Islamic Facism (sic) in America . The outline states that "despite being driven by 'best intentions', institutions such as the media, the Jewish community, and government agencies have calmed jihadists aimed at creating an Islamic republic." In 2011, Bannon spoke at the Liberty Restoration Foundation in Orlando, Florida, about the 2008 Economic Crisis, The Asset Relief Program, and its impact on the origins of the Tea Party movement, while also discussing his films Zero Generation > (2010) and The Undefeated .
Bannon is the executive chairman and co-founder of the Government Accountability Institute, a 501 (3) tax-exempt organization (where he helped organize the publication of Peter Wesweater Breitbart News's senior editor in Clinton Cash), from his founding on in 2012 until his departure in August 2016. For 2012 to 2015, he receives between $ 81,000 and $ 100,000 annually; organizations reported that he worked an average of 30 hours per week for the organization. He also worked as vice-president of the board of Cambridge Analytica, a data-analytics company suspected of using illegal tactics to target American voters in the 2016 election and owned mostly by the Mercer family, a family that also owns Breitbart News.
In 2015, Bannon ranked No. 19 on the list of Mediaite "25 Most Influential in Media News 2015".
Bannon also hosts a radio show ( Breitbart News Daily ) on the SiriusXM Patriot satellite radio channel.
Breitbart News
Bannon is a founding member of the board of Breitbart News, a news site, opinion, and right-wing commentary. Philip Elliott and Zeke J. Miller of Time say that the site has "pushed racist, sexist, xenophobic and anti-Semitic materials into alternative vessels". Bannon says that Breitbart's mix of ideologies including libertarians, Zionists, conservative gay communities, same-sex marriage opponents, economic nationalists, populists, and rightists, right-up composed of very small proportions overall. Claiming the above-rights holds the view with "racial and anti-Semitic tone," Bannon says he has no tolerance at all against such views.
In March 2012, following the death of founder Andrew Breitbart, Bannon became chief executive of Breitbart News LLC, the parent company of Breitbart News. Under his leadership, Breitbart took a more alt-right and nationalistic approach to his agenda. In 2016, Bannon announced the website "platform for alt-right". Speaking of his role in Breitbart, Bannon said: "We consider ourselves to be a cruel anti-establishment, especially the 'anti-' permanent political class."
On August 18, 2017, Breitbart announced that Bannon would return as chief executive after his work at the White House. On January 9, 2018, he resigned as chief executive.
Political career
Donald Trump's campaign
On August 17, 2016, Bannon was appointed chief executive of Donald Trump's presidential campaign. Bannon left Breitbart, as well as the Government Accountability Institute and Cambridge Analytica, to take the job. Shortly after he took over the role of chief executive, Trump's campaign leader, Paul Manafort, was dismissed.
On November 13, after the election victory of Donald Trump, Bannon was appointed chief strategist and senior adviser to the elected President. His appointment drew opposition from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Center for the Law of Southern Poverty, Democratic Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, and some Republican strategies for statements in Breitbart News suspected of being racist or anti-Semitic. A number of prominent Jews, however, defended Bannon against alleged anti-Semitism, including Ben Shapiro, David Horowitz, Pamela Geller, Bernard Marcus of the Republican Jewish Coalition, Morton Klein and the American Zionist Organization, and Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. Alan Dershowitz initially defended Bannon, saying there was no evidence that he was anti-Semitic, but later later declared that Bannon had made harsh statements against Muslims, women, and others. The ADL stated "We do not know the anti-Semitic statement from Bannon." Shapiro, who previously worked as an editor-at-large at Breitbart, said he had no evidence that Bannon was racist or anti-Semitic, but that he "liked being brokers for these people and setting goals together with them to turn conservatism into European far-right nationalist populism ". Bannon refers to the politician of the National Front Marion MarÃÆ'® chal-Le Pen as the "new star".
On November 15, 2016, US Representative David Cicilline of Rhode Island released a letter to Trump signed by 169 Representatives of the Democratic Council who urged him to cancel his appointment of Bannon. The letter states that pointing Bannon "sends a disturbing message about what President Donald Trump wants," because "his association with the White Nationalist movement has been well documented"; he went on to present some examples of alleged xenophobia Breitbart News. Bannon denies being a white nationalist and claims, on the contrary, that he is an "economic nationalist."
On Nov. 18, during his first interview not conducted by Breitbart Media since the 2016 presidential election, Bannon commented on some criticism made about him, saying, "Darkness is good: Dick Cheney, Darth Vader, Satan That is power. when they are wrong.When they are blind to who we are and what we do. "The quote was widely publicized in the media.
In an interview with The New York Times at the end of November, Trump responded to the controversy over Bannon's appointment, saying, "I've known Steve Bannon for a long time, if I think he's a racist, or right, or whatever which we can, you know, a term we can use, I do not even think of hiring it. "
Trump Administration
After his inauguration, Trump appointed Bannon to become Chief of Strategy, a newly created position. The title makes him a senior adviser to the president, almost equivalent in authority to the Chief of Staff. As a staff member at the President's Executive Office, the position does not require Senate confirmation. Breitbart editor Julia Hahn follows Bannon to the White House, where she is appointed as Bannon's assistant, as well as Special Assistant to President Trump.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter after the 2016 election, Bannon analogized his influence with "Thomas Cromwell in Tudors court".
A few days after Donald Trump's inauguration, Bannon told an American newspaper, "The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and shut up and listen for a while, I want you to quote this: the media here is an opposition party." I understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is president of the United States. "
Bannon, along with Stephen Miller, was involved in the creation of Executive Order 13769, resulting in limited US travel and immigration by individuals from seven countries, suspension of the US Refugee Program (USRAP) for 120 days, and unlimited suspension of Syrian entry into the United States. According to The Economist, a British news magazine, Bannon and Miller "see Mr. [Vladimir] Putin as a nationalist and war-fighting counterpart against cosmopolitanism."
In February 2017, Bannon appeared on the cover of Time , where he was labeled "Great Manipulator". The title used for the related article is "Is Steve Bannon the Second Strongest Person in the World?", Alluding to the influence Bannon felt in the White House.
It was reported that he deliberately published a story to weaken H.R. McMaster. Bannon allegedly did this by leaking information to alternative media, including alt-right writer Mike Cernovich. It was also reported that the Trump administration retroactively gave Bannon a complete liberation of the federal ethical rules that allowed him to communicate with editors at Breitbart News, which according to former Breitbart consultant Kurt Bardella would be evidence of administrative intent to enable him to continue to be "the de facto editorial director from Breitbart ".
National Security Council
At the end of January 2017, in the departure from the previous format of the National Security Council (NSC), the Bannon position holder, together with the Chief of Staff, who was appointed by the president's memorandum as a regular participant to the Principal NSC Committee, the inter-agency senior forum level Cabinet to consider national security issues. The arrangements imposed were criticized by some members of the previous administration and called "cold mad rocks" by Susan E. Rice, Barack Obama's last national security adviser. In response, White House spokesman Sean Spicer pointed to Bannon's seven-year experience as a Navy officer in justifying his presence on the Committee.
Bannon was removed from his NSC role in early April 2017 in reorganization by US National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster, whom Bannon had helped to select. White House officials said Bannon's primary purpose in serving on the committee was as a check on former National Security Adviser Michael T. Flynn, who resigned in February 2017 for misleading the vice president of talks with the Russian ambassador to the United States. Therefore, with Flynn gone, Bannon is no longer needed. Bannon reportedly opposed his dismissal from the council and threatened to resign if the Trump president went ahead with it, even though Republican megachurchor Rebekah Mercer urged him to stay. The White House said Bannon was not trying to leave, and Bannon said the indication that he was threatening to resign was "nonsense". Bannon attended only one NSC meeting.
Departure from the White House
Bannon's White House work ended on August 18, 2017, less than a week after Charlottesville united the Right rally that turned violent and bitter. While members of both political parties condemned white-national hatred and white-blooded violence, neo-Nazi and alt-right activists, The New York Times noted that Trump "is the only national political figure to spread accusations of ' Resentment, fanaticism and violence 'which resulted in the death of one person becoming' many parties' The decision to blame "many parties" was reported to have originated from Bannon.NAACP released a statement saying that while they "recognize and appreciate President Trump's denial of hatred that has resulted in the disappearance "they called on Trump" to take concrete steps to remove Steve Bannon - a famous white supremacist leader - from his advisory team. "The statement further describes Bannon as" a symbol of white nationalism "that" arouses that sentiment "through his current position within the White House.
Some sources state that White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly asked Bannon on August 18, 2017, to submit his resignation in lieu of being fired. Bannon, however, said he was not fired but filed a two-week resignation notice on August 4, 2017. He reminded the Weekly Standard that he joined the campaign for the Trump presidential candidate on August 14. , 2016, and says he "always plans to spend a year," but he remains just days away because of the unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
In an official statement, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, "... John Kelly and Steve Bannon have agreed together today will be Steve's last day, we are grateful for his service and wish him the best.
On the same day, Breitbart News announced that Bannon would return to the site as chief executive. A few weeks after his departure, it was reported that Trump was still calling Bannon on his personal cell phone, and just called when Kelly's chief of staff was not around. The Washington Post reported in October 2017 that Trump and Bannon remain in regular contact.
Post-Trump Administration
Parliament of the Republican Senate
After leaving the Trump government, the media widely reported Bannon's attempt to dislodge the ruling Congressman in the Republic, who was seen as insufficiently supporting Trump's agenda. In October, he said he planned to sponsor a major challenge against six of the seven Republican senators in power in the 2018 election. He said he has two requirements for a candidate to win his support: they must promise to vote against Mitch McConnell as Senate Majority Leader and ending the Senate's filigation.
Bannon received credit to help Roy Moore defeat candidate Sen. Luther Strange in the main September Republican party for a special Alabama Senate election 2017, even though Trump has supported Strange. However, Moore lost the election after nine women, a month before the election, accused of sexual offenses; Bannon doubled his support for the candidate, raising doubts about the truth of the allegations. After Moore lost what he regarded as a safe Republican seat, Bannon's reputation as a political strategist was questioned by Republican commentators.
Fire and Fury: Inside the White House Trump
In January 2018, after the publication of Michael Wolff's book Fire and Fury: Inside the White House Trump, which links many controversial statements and inflammation with Bannon, Bannon and Trump becomes unclear and widely seen as enemies. The book quotes Bannon as saying that Ivanka Trump is "stupid"; that the meeting between Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort, and Russian agents was a "traitor"; and Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller will lead Donald Trump Jr. "cracked like an egg in a live broadcast". Bannon also warned that investigators are likely to unveil money laundering involving Jared Kushner and his family business loan from Deutsche Bank.
Trump immediately denied Bannon, saying that Bannon "lost his mind" when he left the White House, and attacked him in some angry remarks. In a tweet on the night of January 4, 2018, Trump called Bannon "Sloppy Steve." On January 7, 2018, Bannon expressed regret for his delayed response, declared his "unshakable" support for Trump and his agenda, and praised Donald Trump Jr. Bannon said his statement about the campaign meeting was aimed at Manafort instead of Trump Jr., a claim contested by Wolff.
Due to a break with Trump, Bannon's position as head of Breitbart News was questioned by the owner of Breitbart, and on January 9 it was announced that he resigned as chief executive.
Political confidence
Individual issues
Bannon has advocated reducing immigration and restrictions on free trade, especially with China and Mexico. He supports raising federal income tax to 44% for those earning more than $ 5 million per year as a way to pay for middle-class tax cuts. He also supports significantly increased infrastructure spending, describing himself as "the person who pushed the trillion-dollar infrastructure plan". Bannon opposed the government bailout, describing them as "socialism for the very rich". He generally believes in reducing the size of the federal bureaucracy, stating in the Conservative Political Action Concert he prefers "deconstruction of state administration". However, he supports the increasing regulation of Internet companies like Facebook and Google, which he considers the same as utilities in the modern era. He opposes the merger between Time-Warner and AT & amp; T with antitrust reasons. He is a strong contender of the Paris climate agreement in government, successfully persuading the President to withdraw from it.
In foreign military intervention
He is generally skeptical of military intervention abroad, opposing proposals for the expansion of US involvement in the War on Afghanistan, the Syrian Civil War, and the crisis in Venezuela. As the White House Strategic Chief, Bannon reportedly opposed the 2017 Shayrat missile attack, but was rejected by Senior Advisor Jared Kushner.
In Afghanistan, he supports a proposal by Erik Prince for the placement of private military contractors rather than the US military. He believes "there is no military solution" to the North Korean crisis of 2017.
Bannon has described US allies in Europe, the Persian Gulf, the South China Sea, the Strait of Malacca, as well as South Korea and Japan, for being a "US patron" who does not "try to defend [itself]", and believes NATO members must pay at least 2 % of GDP for defense.
He also supports improving US-Russian relations and opposes the increase of the US nuclear arsenal.
In the Middle East
Bannon strongly supports the US withdrawal from Iran's nuclear deal, and supports the approach taken by the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman during the Qatar 2017 diplomatic crisis and the Saudi Arabian purge of 2017. He believes Qatar is "no less dangerous" than North Korea.
Bannon believes Iran, Turkey and China form a "new axis" to challenge the West, and have described Turkey as "the greatest danger facing the United States" and "far more dangerous than Iran".
Bannon is reportedly often speaking with donor Trump Sheldon Adelson, and has been concerned about the impetus for an updated Middle East peace process. He described Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as a "terrorist". He has advocated giving land in the West Bank to Jordan and in Gaza to Egypt.
In the UK
Although Bannon initially liked the British National Party and British Defense League in England, he later supported the UK's Independence Party (UKIP), and met Jacob Rees-Mogg, a candidate for the leadership of the country's Conservative Party. Nigel Farage, former UKIP leader, once presented Bannon with a portrait of Bannon dressed as Napoleon Bonaparte.
In Europe and Asia
Bannon supports several European right wing movements such as the French National Front, the Dutch Party for Freedom, Alternatives to Germany, the Northern League of Italy, the Austrian Freedom Party, the Swedish Democrats and the Swiss People's Party.
Bannon also praised Bharatiya Janata Party's Narendra Modi Hindu national government in India, and the Liberal Democratic Party government of Shinzo Abe in Japan.
Overview and effect
Bannon's political and economic views have been described by others as nationalists, right-wing populists, and paleoconservatives. He identifies himself as a conservative. He rejected allegations that he was a white nationalist, calling white nationalists "losers," "fringe elements," and "clown collections," and described Richard Spencer's white supremacy as "self-promoting" and "goober". He then said that he considered being labeled "racist", "xenophobic", and "native" as a "badge of honor". Trump previously referred to Bannon as "more of a libertarian than any other", though some libertarian commentators have denied this claim.
Bannon often describes himself as an economic nationalist, criticizing crony capitalism, the Austrian economy, and Objectivist Ayn Rand's capitalism, which he believes seeks to "make people's commodities, and to realize people." However, he also states that he generally considers himself a free-market capitalist, believing that it is "the foundations of our society", noting that he believes Americans are "more than economic".
Bannon's strategic thought has been influenced by Neil Howe's Fourth Later theories and William Strauss, who proposes that "state-run populism, nationalism and authoritarianism will soon increase, not only in America but throughout the world. [... Once a long strip of accidents and foreign technology, you are left with only a limited amount of social atmosphere, which tends to occur in a fixed sequence. [...] Forests require periodic fires, the river needs periodic floods, community, too. "The book is said to have been a major influence on film Bannon Generation Zero .
A former Zen meditation practitioner, and a nominal orthodox Roman Catholic, Bannon's political thought has been influenced by American populist politics exemplified by Andrew Jackson, Alexander Hamilton, Henry Clay, James K. Polk, Theodore Roosevelt, and Trump; by Pius XI's socio-political philosophy of subsidiarity, as expressed in the papal encyclical of 1931, Quadragesimo anno, defended that political issues should be handled by the lowest, least centralized authority; and by Renà ©  © GuÃÆ'  © n's Traditionalism, praising the social efficacy of spiritual ideas propagated by "primordial" religious traditions such as Vedanta, Buddhism, Sufism, and medieval Christianity, which he expressed was attacked by Western secularism. Bannon has also quoted a variant of Alexander Dugin nationalist nationalism called Eurasiaism. Bannon has been described as "intellectual policy".
Lebanese-American writer Nassim Nicholas Taleb, neoreactionary blogger Curtis Yarvin and conservative intellectual Michael Anton have been shown as the three main influences in political thought of Steve Bannon. Bannon is an admirer of paleoconservative commentator, Pat Buchanan. Political theorist and philosopher Edmund Burke has also been described as a major influence on Bannon's ideological view. In a 2014 speech to the Vatican conference, Bannon made a passing reference to Julius Evola, a twentieth-century Italian-related Italian writer who influenced Benito Mussolini's Italian Fascism and promoted the Traditionalist School, described by the author's New York Times as "a popular worldview among right-wing religions and alternatives who believe that progress and equality are a poisonous illusion." Bannon's interest in the ideas of the Traditionalist School was motivated by Evola's Revolt Against the Modern World, and Guo's books of Man and his Becoming by Vedanta and Modern World Crisis . In March 2016, Bannon stated he appreciated "every part that mentions Evola." In reference to the related view of Vladimir Putin, influenced by followers of Evola Dugin, Bannon stated "We, the Judeo-Christian West, really have to see what he is talking about as far as Traditionalism goes - especially the sense in which it supports the foundations of nationalism. "He also quoted French anti-Enlightenment writer Charles Maurras who approved a French diplomat. Bannon has also repeatedly referred to the controversial French novel in 1973 The Camp of the Saints , depicting immigration that destroyed Western civilization. He has embraced what BBC News has portrayed as "Savitri Devi's historical record as a cyclical battle between good and evil". Bannon told an interviewer in 2018 that he was "fascinated by Mussolini", noting: "He is clearly loved by a woman, a man he has all the virility." He also has an incredible fashion sense, in uniform. "
German film director Leni Riefenstahl, who produces propaganda films for the Nazi regime, is said to have influenced Bannon's filmmaking techniques, with Bannon describing himself as "Riefenstahl of the GOP". Opening of the Bannon 2012 documentary The Hope & amp; The Change consciously mimics Riefenstahl's 1935 The Triumph of the Will, depicting the Nuremberg Rally of 1934.
According to The Guardian in January 2018, Bannon's ideology is substantially similar to Stephen Miller, Tucker Carlson, Benny Johnson, Raheem Kassam and Matthew Boyle, the latter two have become protagonists of Bannon. in Breitbart.
Personal life
Bannon had been married and divorced three times. She has three adult daughters. His first marriage was with Cathleen Suzanne Houff. Bannon and Houff had a daughter, Maureen, in 1988 and then divorced.
Bannon's second marriage was with Mary Louise Piccard, a former investment banker, in April 1995. Their twin daughters were born three days after the wedding. Piccard proposed the dissolution of their marriage in 1997.
Bannon was accused of domestic violence, batteries and a witness in early January 1996 after Piccard accused Bannon of domestic violence. The charge was later canceled when Piccard did not appear in court. In an article in The New York Times Piccard said his absence was due to threats made by Bannon and his lawyer:
Bannon, he said, told him that "if I go to court, he and his lawyer will make sure I will be a guilty person"... Mr. Bannon, he said, "threatened me," telling him that if Mr. Bannon goes to jail, he "will have no money and no way to support the children."... Mr. Lawyer Bannon... refused to pressure him not to testify.
Piccard and Bannon divorced in 1997. During the divorce process, Piccard alleged that Bannon had made an antisemitic statement about his school choice, saying he did not want to send his children to The Archer School for Girls because there were too many Jews at school, Jews raise their children to be "whiny, mischievous children." A spokeswoman for Bannon denied the allegations, noting that he had chosen to send his two children to the Archer School.
Bannon's third marriage was Diane Clohesy; they were married in 2006 and divorced in 2009.
Movieography
Bannon has been a producer, writer or director for the following films and documentaries:
Note
Breitbart is called the far right
Breitbart related to alt-right
References
External links
- Steve Bannon on IMDb
- Appearance in C-SPAN
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