Trump’s hire of Breitbart News chief is a middle finger to the GOP
By Aaron Blake
August 17
... The hire of Breitbart's executive chairman, Steve Bannon, and the elevation of pollster Kellyanne Conway to campaign manager effectively diminish the role of the campaign's chairman, Paul Manafort. Manafort had been in charge since Trump fired then-campaign manager Corey Lewandowski but has run into a series of controversies over his past work and ties to the Russian government ...
As Bloomberg's Joshua Green reported in a profile of Bannon last year ... Andrew Breitbart had "described Bannon, with sincere admiration, as the Leni Riefenstahl of the Tea Party movement" ...
... For non-students of history, Riefenstahl was a filmmaker and Nazi propagandist ... Bannon has encouraged Trump to run as "an unabashed nationalist" — the kind of direction that will give the establishment GOP heartburn ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/17/donald-trumps-hire-of-the-breitbart-news-chief-is-a-middle-finger-to-the-gop-establishment/
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