House Democrats Urge Trump to Rescind Bannon Appointment

At the same time, the American Nazi Party, the Ku Klux Klan and former KKK leader David Duke praised Trump’s pick of Bannon.

Under his stewardship at Breitbart, the pro-Trump website unashamedly pursued a nationalist agenda and became one of the leading outlets of the alt-right movement. “Virtually everyone who has contacted my office has expressed shock that Bannon, so closely linked to anti-Semitic and misogynistic opinions, will have the ear of the president”.

In a presentation Steve Bannon gave during a conference at the Vatican in 2014, the Trump confidant ripped into big banks and their role in the 2008 financial crisis.

Bannon once bragged that the Breitbart news site he edited was a platform for the so-called alt-right, also known as a white nationalist viewpoint.

“Hiring Steve Bannon as a senior adviser in the White House will only further inflame these fears”, she said.

President-elect Donald Trump named Bannon his “chief strategist and senior counselor” over the weekend, placing him in one of the foremost positions of power in Trump’s nascent administration.

My point here is that presidents sometimes surround themselves with people who have, shall we say, interesting backgrounds and past affiliations.

Washington state Democrats in the U.S. House delivered a unanimous verdict on Wednesday: Stephen Bannon must go. And that Frank Gaffney – who with Pamela Geller orchestrated the anti-Ground Zero Mosque campaign – has been advising the Trump transition team?

Bannon has always been associated with the far right of the GOP and used his Breitbart platform to encourage the party to move away from the political center. His ex-wife later accused him of anti-Semitism – charges he strongly denies. Lindsey Graham, a Republican from SC, said. How these methods will manifest themselves in the White House remains to be seen.

During Bannon’s reign over Breitbart, the website ran articles referring to conservative commentator Bill Kristol as a “renegade Jew” and Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum as “a Polish, Jewish, American elitist scorned”.

Absent new allegations about Bannon, the Democrats’ letter is unlikely to change Trump’s mind, given that he pronounced many times on the campaign trail how much he valued loyalty.

In the resume column, Bannon is a former Goldman Sachs banker who holds an MBA from Harvard.

Sanders offered some consolatory notes to Trump saying he would work with him on issues such as banking reform, adding that the President-elect needed to keep his election promises to the middle and working classes.