He is one of the most important Advisor to Donald Trump and at the same time probably the most controversial. Long, Stephen Bannon was considered untouchable. But his days in the White house could be counted.
Stephen “Steve” Bannon has nothing at all against its gritty Image. Even more, he enjoys it and plays with it. In an Interview in November of 2016, shortly after his appointment to trump’s advisers and chief strategists, he said: “darkness is good. Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. This is Power.”
Bannon was a soldier as a young man, a marine, and later earned millions at the Investment Bank Goldman Sachs, and then worked as a film producer. From 2012 to 2016, he headed the rights of website “Breitbart News Network”. Who else wants to know how Bannon sees the world, “Breitbart”. Bannon himself has said, “Breitbart” is “the platform of the Alternative Right”, the people “are against globalisation, very nationalistic and against the Establishment”. Also in the disputes over the symbols of the Confederacy in the United States, which defended in the civil war, slavery was “Breitbart” position, so in the past year, with the headline: “Hoist it proud and high: The Confederate flag stands for a glorious heritage.”
Donald Trump owes much to Stephen Bannon, and made him first of all his most important advisers
The Chief Ideologist
Bannon is in contrast to Trump an ideologue. According to his own statement, he discovered in 1979 in the Navy his political interest, when he heard on Board of a war ship of the hostage-taking of U.S. citizens in Tehran. The democratic President Jimmy Carter responded, in his opinion, decided enough. Bannon became the admirer of Carter’s successor, Republican Ronald Reagan. The Republican party establishment, however, he abhors in the same way as the Democrats. Bannon and “Breitbart” were instrumental for the rise of the Tea Party movement that drove the Republican party far to the right. As Trump considered against Barack Obama to compete, was Bannon immediately fire and flame, and used his journalistic Power in the case of “Breitbart” in order to promote trump’s campaign first within the party and then in the electoral battle against Hillary Clinton.
Trump was in Bannons eyes of the man who could change American policy thoroughly, that is exactly what he felt as his own Mission. In an Interview in 2013, well-known Bannon himself as a Leninist because Lenin want to destroy the state; it was also his goal. “I want to bring everything to collapse and the whole current Establishment to destroy,” said Bannon, according to the Reporter of the website “the Daily Beast”. If “Breitbart” is racist and anti-Semitic, he was asked to 2016. The fact Bannon: “there Are anti-Semites in the Alternative, Right? Of course. Are there racists? Yes, of course. But I don’t think the movement is a total anti-Semitic.”
Half moons on the Cologne Cathedral: “news” according to Breitbart-style
Falling Star
All of this didn’t hurt his rise. Trump obviously feels Stephen Bannon obliged, because of the right-wing conservative base for Trump successful in the advertising drum has stirred. Trump made him even to his most important advisers. He’s supposed to be, among other things, for the withdrawal of the USA from the Paris climate agreement to be responsible of and behind the sharply formulated decree on immigration restrictions. However, in the course of the spring Bannons began to sink Stern. From the National security Council, he was removed again in April. And Trumps a lot of pleasing to the emerging son-in-law, Jared Kushner has pushed Bannon, in fact, the most important Advisor to place.
But Bannon is within Trumps Team from the other side under attack. The quarrels between him and Herbert Raymond McMaster, the National security adviser to the President, have reached according to the testimony of insiders to a degree that makes cooperation almost impossible. Iran, Afghanistan, the middle East, or personnel issues – McMaster and Bannon are in many decisive questions about the cross.
Donald Trump took now Bannon against the charge of racism: “He is not a racist. He is a good man, the media treat him in this regard are very unfair.” But the backing of the President left much to be desired, in terms of its future: “We’ll see what happens with Mr. Bannon,” said Trump, and let the rumours about a dismissal or demotion of Stephen Bannon, a fortiori, bring to a boil.