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icymist

(15,888 posts)
Wed Jan 25, 2017, 04:17 PM Jan 2017

Breitbarts influence grows inside White House

Source: The Hill

President Trump’s chief strategist, Stephen Bannon, is dipping into Breitbart News to staff the White House.

The hires give Bannon more loyalists in Trump’s West Wing, and also raise Breitbart’s profile and power.

It comes as the conservative news organization, led by Bannon until last year, seeks to expand its influence in Washington and the world.

One of Breitbart’s biggest stars, Julia Hahn, is expected to join the White House as an aide to Bannon. Breitbart’s national security editor, Sebastian Gorka, will also relocate to the White House, likely with a spot on the president’s National Security Council, Business Insider reported on Tuesday.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/315990-breitbarts-influence-grows-inside-white-house

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DonCoquixote

(13,616 posts)
4. I'll see you that truth and I'll raise you one
Wed Jan 25, 2017, 04:30 PM
Jan 2017

Frankly my dear, I'm even more paranoid. After all, is anyone here put Steve Bannon, or the folks that follow Steve Bannon, above the idea of trying to do their equipment of the Berlin beer beer hall riot? Every staffer but Steve Bannon puts in the White House gives him that much more control and it allows him to either be puppetmaster or if the puppies decide that they don't like their strings, those strings can be woven easily into nooses. Note that most of these people, like the typical Breitbart employee are young with thin resumes. It will not be that hard to go ahead and send them off to say and do stupid things.

It is very easy to go ahead and ponder who the worst cancer in the Trump White House is; heaven knows there's plenty of them on all fronts. However as long as Steve Bannon is in any position of influence outside of being that one loud drunk at at a non-trendy PBR bar, he is a menace, because he and his followers do indeed want to repeat Berlin circa 1930. What's even worse is that Adolf Hitler did not match to get the bomb, these people would have it and they would use it.

Leghorn21

(13,523 posts)
6. LeftInTX, I guaran-damn-tee it. Trump is too stupid to know or even
Wed Jan 25, 2017, 04:57 PM
Jan 2017

CARE about EPA, CDC, National Parks, etc etc, have mercy.

It's president bannon running this well-oiled censor-fest, far as I'm concerned, with a big rah-rah from the gluttonous repugs in the House -

We shall see...

 

GliderGuider

(21,088 posts)
12. Yep. It's the Dugin/Putin/Bannon alliance to destroy Western liberalism and democracy.
Wed Jan 25, 2017, 09:44 PM
Jan 2017

And I'm as serious as a heart attack about that.

Hell, I'm as serious as ten heart attacks, capped off with a roadside bomb.

Google "Dugin Bannon" and weep at who has become Trump's consigliere. He's a self-identified Leninist for fuck's sake. Even Glenn Beck thinks he's dangerous.

kimbutgar

(21,060 posts)
10. We can only hope Brannon has a heart attack and drops dead like breitbart
Wed Jan 25, 2017, 09:33 PM
Jan 2017

He looks very unhealthy and sickly. We all need to keep our fingers crossed he has a massive heart attack.

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