The Festering Darkness That is Steve Bannon

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Postby seemslikeadream » Mon Apr 10, 2017 10:18 pm

It's On: Nationalists v (((Globalists))) in TrumpLand

Pablo Martinez Monsivais
ByJOSH MARSHALLPublishedAPRIL 10, 2017, 1:27 PM EDT
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Over the weekend, I wrote this piece on the bizarre, surreal, totally Trumpian situation in which Steve Bannon, ersatz "nationalist", part-time anti-unrooted (((cosmopolitan globalist elite)))) and all around Trump ideologue had managed to somehow summon up a situation out of his and his followers deepest fever dreams: he's on the verge of getting pushed out of the White House by the President's Jewish legacy real estate tycoon son-in-law, a couple of Jewish bankers from Goldman Sachs and ... well, that's really enough right there, isn't it?

It's as though Bannon created the Trump-anti-golem only to have the anti-golem turn around and summon up a few traditionalist, kabbalic golems who brought Trump golem under their spell. The rise of general officers like McMaster and Mattis (in many ways the real story) somehow don't take high profiles in this drama. The Greek-American Priebus, if he gets tossed or stays, goes blood martyr or goes cuck, amounts to mere ethnographic roadkill on this melodramatic, hormone driving narrative of "real Americans" and "nationalists" versus "globalists" like Kushner and Gary Cohn - or "globalist Gary" as Axios tells us the Bannonites now call him.

"Jew Gary" not only lacks alliteration but is worse it is unmeme-able, the ultimate fail.

Now we have this not-surprising news from the ADL, a veritable explosion of anti-semitic memes targeting Kushner and other "Jewish advisors" seducing Trump away from his America First platform ...

An online campaign of anti-Semitism has been directed at Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and advisor over the past week. It comes in the context of Trump’s removal of chief strategist Stephen Bannon from the National Security Council and reports about a feud between Bannon and Kushner as well as airstrikes in Syria in response to the chemical attack last week.
This campaign of anti-Semitism has been driven by white supremacists and anti-Semites and has all the hallmarks of classic Jewish conspiracy theories. The narratives include accusations that Jews in the Trump Administration are trying to start a war to advance the interests of Israel. They contend that Trump has abandoned his “America First” policy, which the alt right supported, because he is being manipulated by Kushner and other Jewish advisors.

The anti-Semitic social media campaign, which features hashtags on Twitter such as #firekushner, #kushneratwar, #kushnerswar, appears to have begun on April 5 with a few tweets describing the administration’s actions as a betrayal alongside the #firekushner hashtag.

You can read the rest of the ADL's findings here.

As I noted over the weekend, in admittedly antic and parodic prose, this is all vintage Trump. Everyone around him is a caricature and everything a contradiction. We have the close-to-feral blood and soil nationalist champing at the bit to take down the globalist elites sucking the blood out of Trump's real American supporters having to make common cause with perhaps equally caricatured doyens of the world of New York money, who yes are Jews. And real estate barons. And Goldman Sachs bankers. Everything in Trumpland is turned up to 11. Nationalists may hate (((Globalists))) but they're all blood enemies of nuance, subtlety, anything low drama or anything that would be half-plausible in a Hollywood script.

None of this will end well.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/it-s-on--3


ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE USCYBERHATE
Explosive Growth of Hateful Memes and Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories Against Jared Kushner
April 10, 2017
An online campaign of anti-Semitism has been directed at Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and advisor over the past week. It comes in the context of Trump’s removal of chief strategist Stephen Bannon from the National Security Council and reports about a feud between Bannon and Kushner as well as airstrikes in Syria in response to the chemical attack last week.
This campaign of anti-Semitism has been driven by white supremacists and anti-Semites and has all the hallmarks of classic Jewish conspiracy theories. The narratives include accusations that Jews in the Trump Administration are trying to start a war to advance the interests of Israel. They contend that Trump has abandoned his “America First” policy, which the alt right supported, because he is being manipulated by Kushner and other Jewish advisors.
The anti-Semitic social media campaign, which features hashtags on Twitter such as #firekushner, #kushneratwar, #kushnerswar, appears to have begun on April 5 with a few tweets describing the administration’s actions as a betrayal alongside the #firekushner hashtag.

On April 6, @AltGrey1 sent several tweets including the #firekushner and #syriahoax hashtags. One of the tweets read: “no more jewish wars #fireKushner #Syriahoax.” The tweets started circulating among more influential users and the total mentions of #firekushner surpassed 100.

Throughout the day on April 7, discussion around the hashtag steadily rose, primarily among apparent alt right supporters, including retweeted posts from @bakedalaska, the Twitter handle of Tim Treadstone, an alt-right social media personality with a history of anti-Semitic tweets.
The same day, alt right leader and anti-Semite Richard Spencer tweeted: “#FireKushner No one voted for Kushner. Indeed, many of us voted against people like Kushner having power.” This post was retweeted over 1000 times and #firekushner began its trend upward.
By end of day on April 7, #Firekushner, along with #kushneratwar and #kushnerswar became a top trending topic with over 130,000 mentions, many of which featured anti-Semitic invective directed at Jared Kushner.
Indeed, well known anti-Semites such as David Duke joined the chorus on Twitter, tweeting out statements such as:
We are being brought down from within. ZIO Supremacists are the true enemy of the American people... not Assad, not Putin. #FireKushner
This is what happens when America is led by Jewish supremacists. These traitors put #IsraelFirst while we pay the price. #NoWarsForIsrael
Israelis are involved in espionage against Western, Christian nations? No way - greatest ally would never do such a thing. #FireKushner

With over 300,000 mentions, it appears that anti-Semites were able to use Twitter to become part of the story. But this commentary was hardly limited to Twitter:
Erik Striker, a writer for The Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi alt right website, referred to Kushner as “President Kushner” and said that his “vital interest as a Chabad Lubavitcher [a Jewish Hasidic sect] in foreign policy is to advance Israel at the expense of America.”
Lee Rogers, who runs another neo-Nazi site, Infostormer, wrote, “I fully supporting [sic] the ousting of Kushner and every other kike from Trump’s cabinet. This Jew Kushner has been especially bad news from the start considering his marriage to his daughter Ivanka. These kikes do not believe in America First. They believe in putting the interests of Israel and world Jewry first. That’s what this strike against Syria did. It put the interests of the Jews first.”
Brad Griffin, aka Hunter Wallace, writing on his blog Occidental Dissent, argued, “The fact remains that all of us, myself included, may have grossly underestimated the impact of the Jews inhabiting Trump’s inner circle. While we attacked anyone and everything that even spoke out lightly against the ‘God Emperor,’ a bona fide Court Jew and his race-traitor wife slid their way into the halls of the White House and corrupted everything that we found so appealing about the rise of The Don.” Writing for the site altright.com, Wallace also asserted, “It is Jared Kushner and Gary Cohn, the former president of Goldman Sachs, pushing aside the #MAGA people in order to start new wars on behalf of Bibi Netanyahu and Sheldon Adelson.”
This online anti-Semitism also had some apparent a real world impact:

A Twitter post from the white supremacist Traditionalist Workers Party claims that a banner on an overpass over I-95 in Philadelphia that reads “Jewish lies Saudi money = USA wars.”
Richard Spencer held a demonstration in Washington, DC, at Lafayette Square outside the White House to protest the bombing in Syria on April 8. One of the protesters accompanying Spencer held a sign that read, “No more wars 4 Israel.”
The response to Kushner and the Trump Administration from white supremacists comes at a time where some have expressed disappointment at Trump, who they previously viewed as a champion of their cause. On April 7, Richard Spencer condemned Trump's military intervention in Syria in a video, saying: “I am deeply disappointed in Donald Trump. I’m shocked, and I’m angry. And I am ready to condemn Donald Trump.”
https://www.adl.org/blog/explosive-grow ... ed-kushner
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Re: The Festering Darkness That is Steve Bannon

Postby stillrobertpaulsen » Wed Apr 12, 2017 6:00 pm

Watchdog ‘has evidence’ Bannon illegally received super PAC payments while leading Trump’s campaign

David Ferguson
12 Apr 2017 at 15:18 ET

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A campaign ethics watchdog group known as the Campaign Legal Center (CLC) notified the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) on Wednesday that it has evidence of illegal contributions made from a Trump-aligned super PAC to President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.

A letter from the CLC to the FEC’s Complaints Examination and Legal Administration office said that the super PAC Make America Number 1 — run by Republican mega-donor Robert Mercer — “illegally compensated Steve Bannon’s work as Donald Trump’s campaign CEO, and that the super PAC and campaign engaged in unlawful coordinated spending by using the common vendor Cambridge Analytica.” The letter is a follow-up to a complaint lodged by the CLC in October.

“The evidence suggests that the Mercer-backed super PAC secretly subsidized Bannon’s work for the Trump campaign by payments to ‘Glittering Steel,’ which we now know has been chaired and is owned by Bannon and which paid him a monthly consulting fee,” said Brendan Fischer — the director of the federal and FEC reform program at the CLC.

Furthermore, said Fischer, “both Bannon and Make America Number 1’s leadership owned and were on the board of Cambridge Analytica, and news reports indicate that the Trump campaign hired Cambridge Analytica at the urging of Make America Number 1’s head, strengthening the inference that Cambridge Analytica was used as a means of sharing information between the campaign and super PAC, in violation of federal law.”

The CLC also filed a complaint with California’s attorney general and secretary of state demanding a review of Glittering Steel LLC’s compliance with state laws. According to the ethics group, Glittering Steel was never licensed to do business in California, however, Make America Number 1’s filings with the FEC show that the PAC paid millions of dollars to Glittering Steel at an address in California.
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On his personal financial disclosure, Bannon said that he was paid by Glittering Steel through his California-based consulting firm.

“Entities engaged in intrastate commerce in California must register and publicly disclose their board membership, and may be subject to taxation,” said Fischer.

(NOTE: Our previous headline stated that Bannon made ‘millions’ from the millions of dollars paid to Glittering Steel, LLC from Mercer’s super PAC. However, it’s unclear what funds he specifically received before and after he resigned from Glittering Steel in August or the amount of his remaining financial stake in the company.)
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Re: The Festering Darkness That is Steve Bannon

Postby seemslikeadream » Fri Apr 14, 2017 7:15 pm

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Complaint: Bannon, Mercer Dodged California Taxes
A legal watchdog group has filed a complaint alleging Steve Bannon and Rebekah Mercer failed to properly register groups in California, avoiding corporate taxes as well as disclosure laws.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... taxes.html


#KEEPBANNON?
Alt-Right Ringleader Mike Cernovich Threatens to Drop ‘Motherlode’ If Steve Bannon Is Ousted
The Pizzagate conspiracy theorist claims to have a cache of dirty secrets that he’s willing to deploy.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... usted.html



Rebekah Mercer Joins Board of Anti-Muslim Think Tank
by Eli Clifton

Earlier this month, Rebekah Mercer, the daughter of billionaire Trump backer Robert Mercer, was listed as a member of the “Board of Governors,” of the Gatestone Institute, a New York City-based anti-Muslim organization that has long opposed the immigration of Muslims to the West.
http://lobelog.com/rebekah-mercer-joins ... hink-tank/
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Re: The Festering Darkness That is Steve Bannon

Postby norton ash » Fri Apr 14, 2017 7:20 pm

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A week after President Donald Trump began to publicly distance himself from White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, alt-right ringleader Mike Cernovich threatened to release a “motherlode” of stories that could “destroy marriages” if Bannon is formally let go from the administration.
Cernovich made the claims that he’d release a series of “scoops” if Bannon is officially pushed out of the White House on an eleven-minute, self-recorded Periscope Thursday night.
“If they get rid of Bannon, you know what’s gonna happen? The motherlode. If Bannon is removed, there are gonna be divorces, because I know about the mistresses, the sugar babies, the drugs, the pill popping, the orgies. I know everything,” said Cernovich.
“If they go after Bannon, the mother of all stories is gonna drop, and we’re just gonna destroy marriages, relationships—it’s gonna get personal.”
The Daily Beast reached out to Cernovich, asking who he meant by “they” and if he had documentation for the claims. He was on InfoWars’ radio show and livestream most of Friday afternoon, and did not respond at press time.
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Re: The Festering Darkness That is Steve Bannon

Postby SonicG » Fri Apr 14, 2017 9:18 pm

The president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., tweeted just last week that Cernovich deserved a Pulitzer for his recent coverage of Susan Rice’s efforts to better identify Trump campaign officials in intelligence reports.

I think Trump is just going to isolate Bannon until he is pointless and he will just slink off...

Speaking of slinking, weasel is as weasel does...
Stephen Miller Cozies Up To Jared Kushner As Bannon’s White House Clout Shrinks
Read more: http://forward.com/fast-forward/369076/ ... lout-shri/
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April 17, 2017

Alexander Dugin and Steve Bannon’s ideological ties to Vladimir Putin’s Russia
Owen Matthews

These days, having any sort of ties to Moscow is politically toxic in Washington. Recent reports indicate Donald Trump may have borrowed Russian money to keep his property empire afloat—while a congressional investigation looms into alleged Kremlin interference in the U.S. presidential election and a host of murky connections between Trump campaign officials and Russian hackers and spies.

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https://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/alexan ... ns-russia/
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Re: The Festering Darkness That is Steve Bannon

Postby seemslikeadream » Thu May 04, 2017 10:06 am

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"Cancel all federal funding to sanctuary cities" or "build the border wall and eventually make Mexico..."?

What Else Is on Steve Bannon's Whiteboard?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY0PoQqAhGE

How President Bannon’s Whiteboard Sank Trump
By Juan Cole | May. 4, 2017 |

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – –
Trump’s approval ratings are in the toilet compared to any other modern president at this stage of his presidency. At least some of that public disapproval comes from his repeated attempts to issue overly broad or discriminatory or otherwise unconstitutional executive orders. These were promptly blocked by federal courts, although Trump could yet prevail at the Supreme Court.
It turns out that these disastrous EO’s haven’t been The Tangerine One’s ideas at all. He’s just taking marching orders from President Bannon’s whiteboard checklist.
Let us underline that: Trump’s agenda is Breitbart, alt-Neo-Nazi agenda.
Alt-White-Supremacist Steve Bannon tried to do a whitewash of his smelly politics by taking a selfie with Rabbi Shmuly Boteach, but instead Bannon got whiteboarded – his neo-Fascist to-do list showed up in the background.
You know how in movies about paranoid conspiracy theorists they always show the guy with a bunch of wild items pinned all over his walls? Our country is being run by one of those.
According to WaPo and LA Times, these are the items on Bannon-‘s to-do list. For his failed policies I have quoted past Informed Comment articles explaining.
Things President Bannon wants to do that have been blocked by Federal courts:
Cancel all federal funding to sanctuary cities
District Judge William Orrick issued a stay on grounds like that Congress decides budgetary issues and that
“Further, the Tenth Amendment requires that conditions on federal funds be unambiguous and timely made; that they bear some relation to the funds at issue; and that the total financial incentive not be coercive. Federal funding that bears no meaningful relationship to immigration enforcement cannot be threatened merely because a jurisdiction chooses an immigration enforcement strategy of which the President disapproves.”
Suspend Syrian Refugee Program
This was part of Trump’s first attempted Executive Order on immigration. It was blocked by a federal judge in Seattle on grounds of being discriminatory and of harming the University of Washington:
“Robart wrote, according to the Seattle Times:
“The executive order adversely affects the state’s residents in areas of employment, education, business, family relations and freedom to travel,” Robart wrote, adding that the order also harmed the state’s public universities and tax base. “These harms are significant and ongoing.”
Suspend immigration from terror-prone regions
Implement new extreme immigration vetting techniques
These two also all got blocked by Federal courts:
Derrick Watson, US District Court judge in Honolulu, has issued a nationwide Temporary Restraining Order against Trump’s second attempt at an Executive Order excluding people from Muslim-majority countries from the United States. Watson found that the state of Hawaii, which brought the suit, was likely to prevail in its complaint that the president’s order would impose irreparable harm on the University of Hawaii and on the state’s tourism industry. He also found that it violates the constitutional rights of American Muslims. (I made the same argument soon after it was released).
Things he may actually get through (like, today):
Repeal and Replace Obamacare
Things pending:
Create a 10% repatriation tax
Build the border wall and eventually make Mexico …
Create support program for victims of illegal immigrants
Expand and revitilize the popular 287g partners
Issue detainers for all illegal immigrants who are … for any crime and they will be placed into …removal proceedings
End “catch-and-release”
Hire 5,000 more Border Patrol agents
Restore the Secure Communities Program
Triple the number of ICE agents
Sunset our visa laws so that Congress is forced to periodically revise and revisit them
Finally complete biometric entry-exit tracking
Propose passage of Davis-Oliver bill
The immigration bill, proposed by then Sen. Jeff Sessions in 2015, is named for two California police officers who were killed by immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.
…pass “Kate’s Law”
If Trump tries to push this Mussolini type agenda on the United States of America, I predict that his presidency will sink even faster.
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Related video:
The Young Turks: Steve Bannon leaks his own Master Plan


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZOCkA5_b-Y
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Re: The Festering Darkness That is Steve Bannon

Postby seemslikeadream » Thu Jun 01, 2017 4:35 pm

Steve Bannon just got the power to run his white supremacist site from the White House
By Oliver Willis |
JUNE 1, 2017

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The Trump administration has granted top aide Steve Bannon a waiver that will allow him to control the editorial direction of the white supremacist Breitbart site, while still working for the government on the taxpayers' dime.

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The Trump White House just disclosed that it granted ethics waivers to 17 appointees, including senior White House staffers.
The document carves out an exemption from ethics rules to those on the receiving end, including chief of staff Reince Priebus, counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway, and chief strategist Steve Bannon.
As the Washington Post reports, the waiver gives Bannon “permission to communicate with Breitbart News, the conservative website he used to run.”
The continued connection between Breitbart and the Trump White House is no surprise, and the murky ties between the right-wing site and Trump donor Rebekah Mercer recently led the U.S. Senate Daily Press Gallery to deny Breitbart’s bid to receive a permanent pass to cover Congress.
What the waiver does is grant Bannon to shape the coverage and tone of a pro-Trump propaganda outlet with a sordid history of white supremacist content, while working in his taxpayer-financed White House position.
Breitbart has repeatedly and vociferously championed Trump, jumping on his campaign bandwagon early in the 2016 presidential cycle. Breitbart pushed Trump and his message while attacking his Republican rivals, and some at Breitbart believed Trump paid the site to do so.
When he was at Breitbart, Bannon bragged that the site was “the platform for the alt-right,” the misogynist, white supremacist, anti-immigration movement that is now a dominant force within the conservative movement.
Breitbart publishes a torrent of anti-immigrant articles, whipping up fear about them — particularly Muslims — while browbeating politicians who show the slightest signs of tolerance.
The site also explicitly promotes racism, hyping articles about cases with white victims of crimes committed by Blacks. It even has a section of the site tagged as “Black Crime,” a one-stop shop for white supremacist content.

Breitbart
Breitbart also traffics in misogyny, publishing stories with headlines like “Does Feminism Make Women Ugly?” and “The Solution to Online ‘Harassment’ Is Simple: Women Should Log Off.”
The site promotes conspiracy theories, and has been caught making up stories out of thin air in order to advance its far-right agenda.
Based on the Trump administration’s agenda and actions thus far, as well as its current status, embroiled in multiple scandals as it increasingly cuts off press access, it is clear they view the Breitbart connection as vital to promoting themselves.
Fox News has taken its traditional position as a Republican administration mouthpiece, contorting itself into knots to justify the Trump team breaking rules and the law, but it is clear that Fox isn’t enough, perhaps thanks to its falling ratings and its current scandals.
So Trump gave his right-hand man the green light to act as the de facto editor in chief for a hate-based website, and to do so from within the White House.
http://shareblue.com/steve-bannon-just- ... ite-house/
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Re: The Festering Darkness That is Steve Bannon

Postby seemslikeadream » Wed Jun 14, 2017 1:55 pm

AS TRUMP’S PROBLEMS MOUNT, BREITBART’S NUMBERS ARE CRATERING
A media business based on attack has been much less successful when forced to defend.

BY TINA NGUYEN
MAY 26, 2017 2:50 PM

Steve Bannon in the Oval Office witnessing Trump sign an Executive Memorandum on the investigation of steel imports.

With its former chairman Steve Bannon as White House chief strategist and plans for an ambitious international expansion, Breitbart was supposed to be on its way to becoming a media behemoth in the Trump era, one with unparalleled access and a passionate audience. “While several publishers have enjoyed an uptick in traffic due to election coverage, we are proud to have built a massive and deeply-rooted community that will remain long after the election cycle fades,” Larry Solov, Breitbart’s C.E.O., predicted back in November.

Early on, Solov’s prediction seemed to be coming true. “Breitbart News is the #45th most trafficked website in the United States, according to rankings from Amazon’s analytics company, Alexa.com,” they wrote on January 9, 2017. “With over two billion pageviews generated in 2016 and 45 million unique monthly visitors, Breitbart News has now surpassed Fox News (#47), Huffington Post (#50), Washington Post (#53), and Buzzfeed (#64) in traffic.” A month later, the site had even greater cause to celebrate. “Breitbart News is now the 29th most trafficked site in the United States, surpassing PornHub and ESPN,” they crowed. In the article, its staffers bragged that their bonkers traffic reflected the site’s cementing a permanent place in American politics. “The numbers speak for themselves,” said Solov. (Many outlets, including The Hive, experienced traffic peaks around Trump’s inauguration.)

Just a few months later, the numbers have a different story to tell. As of May 26, 2017, according to Alexa.com—the same web-ranking analytics company that Breitbart drew its numbers from in January—Fox News is the 64th most-trafficked site in the country. Huffington Post is at 60. Buzzfeed is at 50. The Washington Post, on the strength of a series of eye-popping scoops, is at 41.

Breitbart is in 281st place.


Alexa global rankings of Breitbart measured against news sites they have compared themselves to. Trends reflect U.S. rankings.
From Alexa Internet.

Alexa global rankings of Breitbart measured against competing conservative news sites. Trends reflect U.S. rankings.
From Alexa Internet.
Measuring web traffic is an inexact art, but other web-analytics companies reflect a similar, unusually steep decline in Breitbart’s traffic. ComScore estimated that Breitbart had nearly 23 million unique visitors during the month of November 2016, but only drew 10.7 million in April 2017, a 53 percent drop. Last month, the site had fewer visitors than it did in April 2016, when 12.3 million people visited the site. In contrast, the four sites that Breitbart benchmarked itself against saw nowhere near that drop—and, in the case of both Fox News and Buzzfeed, saw small increases in traffic since the November election. (A few days after publication, the certification categorization for Breitbart on Alexa was reversed, returning their ranking to 59. This did not affect their ComScore ranking.)

The Breitbart traffic graph in Alexa, the service that Breitbart cites when they celebrate their traffic goals, is oddly shaped, rocketing up to a high plateau where it remained over a period of months, then dropping back precipitously around April 30, Trump’s 100-day mark. In an email to The Hive, an Alexa customer representative suggested that the traffic anomalies could have been caused by Breitbart enabling, then disabling, Alexa’s certified-results feature, which temporarily created an apples-to-oranges comparison with sites that don’t enable the feature, like The Washington Post. (The dates the representative provided coincide perfectly with the dates that Breitbert’s traffic spiked, and then plummeted.)

Other conservative media sites have also experienced declines in traffic in recent months, but none as pronounced as Breitbart’s. According to Alexa data, National Review Online, Infowars.com, The Daily Caller, and Drudge Report all saw slumps in their rankings. Over the last week, as Trump was engulfed in the Comey scandal, Fox News’s viewership dropped to third place behind CNN and MSNBC for the first time in 17 years.

At the most basic level, Trump’s struggles are producing a passion gap among news consumers. “If you’re anti-Trump, there’s never been a better time to read news. It’s like Christmas every morning,” an editor at another conservative media outlet told me. “So every time you open the newspaper or open Twitter or turn on Facebook, you get to enjoy the fact that there are a lot of other people who don’t like Trump and there’s a lot of news stories that show Trump in a negative light. Whereas if you’re Breitbart, you’re scrambling to explain or defend or continue to back the guy that you backed throughout the election. And eventually, if your posture continues to just simply be reactive and trying to explain away things that are happening to or by the president, I think people slowly become sort of disheartened by politics.”

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But Breitbart, which built its audience by relentlessly attacking liberals, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, and political correctness, has struggled to find a mission when its closest allies are in power. Becoming the official voice of the new outsider establishment was always going to be difficult. Before Trump’s election, its correspondents’ mission was crystal-clear: attack. Afterward, things became much murkier, and getting everyone on the same page was difficult, since they weren’t even in the same state. The 2017 CPAC conference, where Breitbart would host their legendary parties, was the first time many of its correspondents met each other face to face. By that point, the editorial problems were becoming apparent, but the fantastic numbers allowed people to paper them over.

Traffic has long been the definitive measure of the strength of the movement Breitbart championed. “The growing traffic numbers was a huge focus for Bannon and the Breitbart senior management, as it would be for any online platform,” Kurt Bardella, Breitbart’s former spokesman, who left the company in March of 2016, told me in an e-mail. “They saw the growth as validation that their perspective and strategy was paying off. More than that, I think Steve saw it as a big F.U. to the establishment/MSM. In some ways, I think their rapid growth fueled their desire to try and take Breitbart global and expand.”

Trump’s election, however, changed the trajectory and raised journalistic questions the site had never had to ponder. “There’s two types of bias in news,” said a former Breitbart staffer. “There’s bias in news as to how you cover a particular story. And then there’s selection bias as in which stories do you cover. And I think that Breitbart has both of those.” The former staffer pointed to the site’s current homepage, just a few hours after the C.B.O. score for the House’s second attempt at repealing Obamacare was released. The biggest headline on the site was “Associated Press Cracks, Issues Correction Undermining Hit Piece From Leftist Activist Hired to Sneak into Kellyanne Event.” “This is not news anyone wants to read right now, come on,” he said. “That’s not even in English.” (A story about the C.B.O. score was buried in the bottom right-hand corner.)

Another factor could be an apparent decline in the number of times Breitbart stories receive a link from Matt Drudge—a single link on the Drudge Report homepage can fuel an entire month’s worth of web traffic. Andrew Breitbart, a former Drudge employee, essentially built his organization on the back of the Drudge Report; Bannon continued the close relationship after Breitbart’s death. (“Bannon used to go around bragging that he ran Drudge [and that] he could get a Drudge link anytime he wanted,” said the former Breitbarter.) Many see the current editor, Alex Marlow, as having a more difficult time now that Bannon has gone. Says the former staffer, “Alex’s main strategy was to get Drudge links,” while Bannon was there. “When that’s your training, it’s hard to get away from that.” (Drudge did not return a request for comment.)

When I reached out to Breitbart for comment on Wednesday evening, asking if we could talk the next day, an editor passed along my email to spokesman Chad Wilkinson. “There is no way I can make that deadline,” he wrote back. “I don’t follow the traffic all that much and I am heading out of town. I will see what I can find in the meantime but I don’t anticipate having a hard answer in the next 13 or 14 hours.” He did not return repeated additional requests for comment.

Their international expansion, too, seems to be slipping past the benchmarks they set for themselves. Reuters reported that Bannon hoped to open Breitbart bureaus in France and Germany in time for their elections with the aim of electing right-wing, anti-immigrant politicians. The model had worked wonders in the U.K., where Breitbart London had opened in 2013 and became a political powerhouse for Brexit. But Breitbart France failed to materialize in time for the presidential election, where a centrist candidate decisively beat Marine Le Pen, the nationalist politician favored by the website. Breitbart Germany does not exist yet, but there is still plenty of time until their September elections.

Lee Stranahan, a 51-year-old journalist who referred to himself as an “old guy,” left the site in February after clashing with the leadership, predominantly in their late 20s to mid-30s. He suggested that their relative youth and inexperience caused them to let the moment slip, allowing even more extremist sites, like Infowars, and Internet trolls, like Mike Cernovich, to eat their lunch. “Breitbart is getting all this traffic around January and February. What you could choose to say is ‘Welcome, new readers! Hi. You may not have heard of Breitbart before. We want you to know who we are and what we stand for. Here’s some of our greatest hits.’ And then you highlight some great investigative reporting that you’ve done.”

“I’m not saying go for the center,” he added quickly. “I’m saying go for quality work that gives new readers to see what conservative media is capable of in a good way . . . or, you could go full-bore into tinfoil land. But they didn’t do either one. They were just kind of arrogant. I can’t think of any other way to say it.”

But for now, the simplest explanation may be that Breitbart’s traffic struggles reflect the struggles of the man they backed during the election, now mired in the difficulties of governance and scandal. “When you tie yourself to a candidate you shouldn’t be surprised,” said the former staffer. “If the candidate has trouble, you’re going to have trouble. And if your goal is to provide cover for that candidate and the news is about that candidate, it’s going to be difficult to cover the news in a way that’s interesting.”

The numbers, indeed, speak for themselves.

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Re: The Festering Darkness That is Steve Bannon

Postby stillrobertpaulsen » Fri Jun 16, 2017 5:46 pm

I am not sure who Claude Taylor is. Interesting to see if this pans out:


Claude Taylor @TrueFactsStated

Breaking News: Steve Bannon now being investigated for Obstruction. This is out of EDVA. Source says he physically threatened WH staffers.
12:52 PM - 16 Jun 2017


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@TrueFactsStated @sherrythrasher Claude, not that this matters, I'm IRL friends with one of four staffers. This occurred on Tue mid morning and she was terrified.
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@TrueFactsStated @sherrythrasher 2/2 blew up my cell (I was in a depo) and was hysterically crying. She was terrified. Bannon wouldn't let her leave the small conf room
1:45 PM - 16 Jun 2017


Claude Taylor @TrueFactsStated

Further details from source. Bannon physically confined two White House staffers-blocked access to exits. Steve Bannon is done. https://twitter.com/truefactsstated/sta ... 7497767937
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Claude Taylor‏ @TrueFactsStated 3h3 hours ago

Claude Taylor Retweeted SeanSpicer's Mic

Bannon has a history of violence. He physically threatened WH staffers. And I still want to know about the acid residue in his bathtub.


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stillrobertpaulsen wrote:I am not sure who Claude Taylor is.



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Ex-Breitbart staffer booted from National Security Council as far-right nationalists lose influence
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06 JUL 2017 AT 13:20 ET


Former Breitbart.com columnist Tera Dahl is giving up her seat on the National Security Council (NSC) amid fierce internecine squabbles at the White House, said BuzzFeed News on Thursday.

Dahl was ousted from her position as deputy chief of the NSC and reassigned to a position outside the White House, said three sources to BuzzFeed’s John Hudson, who wrote, “The move frees up National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster to install another staffer of his choosing in his drive to reshape the NSC to his liking.”

Dahl came to the White House as part of Trump’s transition team along with other former Breitbart staffers like Stephen Bannon, Stephen Miller and Sebastian Gorka. The group formed a hard-right, nationalist contingent who positioned themselves in opposition to the so-called “globalist” contingent led by people like McMaster, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn.

“This White House has been characterized from the start by deep divergences in the foreign policy approaches of senior officials,” said Jeff Rathke of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a foreign policy think tank.

“At the moment, the two camps are bitterly fighting over whether to deploy more troops to Afghanistan, pull the US out of NAFTA, tighten immigration rules, and designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization — and over an array of other critical policy options under review,” Hudson wrote.

“Tera Dahl has done exemplary work both on the transition and in the first months of the Trump administration getting the National Security Council staffed up and running from the chief of staff’s office,” said White House spokesman Michael Anton. “It was always her intent to move into a policy role once this task was completed.”

Fervent Trump supporter and aspiring right-wing provocateur Jack Posobiec raged on Medium.com that Dahl’s exit from the NSC is part of a plot by McMaster and his aide Megan Badasch. Posobiec blames Badasch for a number of leaks pertaining to the NSC and says Dahl’s ouster is the result of Dahl’s discovery of “computer logs pointing Badasch’s office as leak of transcripts.”

Trump’s performance thus far on his European trip would seem to indicate that he is heeding McMaster’s prompting, at least for now. He has spoken out against Russian and praised NATO’s collective defense strategy.

Trump’s Stephen Miller-penned speech during his last European trip caused consternation and disgust among NATO leaders due to its isolationist, exceptionalist bent. One attendee called the entire Trump visit a “sh*tshow.”

Trump hopes to improve upon that performance on this trip, particularly with regards to a planned bilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday.

Hudson posted a stream of tweets about the announcement:
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Steve Bannon’s closest ally leaves White House as yet another rat deserts Donald Trump’s sinking ship
By Bill Palmer
Updated: 11:03 pm EDT Thu Jul 6, 2017 | 2
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Turnover happens in any presidential administration, but not at the rate which Donald Trump has been losing key people in his relatively short time in office. He’s only been able to fill a small fraction of the jobs in the White House to begin with, and people have been bailing at an alarming rate – either because they’re as corrupt as he is, or because they’re rats who want off Trump’s sinking ship. Today’s latest departure hits Steve Bannon right where it hurts.

Bannon thought he could remake the White House in Breitbart’s image. He got Donald Trump to appoint him to the National Security Council, which set off a tidal wave of controversy. He also hired some of his own Breitbart writers for key White House positions, including Sebastian Gorka and Tera Dahl. But Gorka has such a shady background that he never could get security clearance, and ended up transferring to meaningless executive branch job instead. And now Dahl is just flat out bailing.

Dahl is moving to a meaningless job at the US Agency for International Development according to CNN (link), which is a massive demotion from her current National Security Council job. So the official explanation, which is that she was always planning to take this demotion, is a joke. Because no scandals have surfaced around her to explain her departure from the White House, it’s more likely that she’s just another rat who wants off before Donald Trump’s ship finishes sinking.

It also means that Steve Bannon has lost his closest remaining ally in the White House. It’s no longer clear what Bannon’s role even is. Then again, it’s no longer clear what anyone’s role is in Donald Trump’s increasingly non-functional White House. The skeleton crew driving the S.S. Trump over a waterfall just became even smaller today.
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Bannon ally leaves the National Security Council after less than six months
By Kaitlan Collins, CNN
Updated 3:12 PM ET, Thu July 6, 2017
White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon attends a ceremony in the Rose Garden where Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch was administered the judicial oath at the White House on April 10, 2017 in Washington.
White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon attends a ceremony in the Rose Garden where Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch was administered the judicial oath at the White House on April 10, 2017 in Washington.

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Tera Dahl is exiting the National Security Council
Dahl previously worked as an aide to former Rep. Michele Bachmann
(CNN)A former Breitbart writer and ally of Steve Bannon's is leaving the White House after less than six months of serving as the deputy chief of staff for the National Security Council.

NSC spokesman Michael Anton confirmed to CNN Thursday that Tera Dahl is exiting the group and will move on to a role "that she wants" at the US Agency for International Development. Anton declined to comment further on what Dahl's new role will look like.
A second NSC official told CNN the decision for Dahl to leave was "long planned."
"The understanding all along was that she would assist in getting the NSC up and running and then move on to a policy role," the official said. "This was the plan under both General Flynn and General McMaster."
Her departure was first reported by BuzzFeed.
Dahl previously worked as an aide to former Rep. Michele Bachmann and as the executive director for the now-defunct Council on Global Security, a think tank that was, according to its website, "established to uncover and counter the totalitarian ideologies that endanger individual liberty and human development around the world."
Dahl wrote for Breitbart from October 2013 until August 2016
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Steve Bannon misreports $2 million debt in financial disclosure
Top Trump adviser to amend filing after Center for Public Integrity questions

White House Chief Strategist Stephen K. Bannon failed to properly disclose more than $2 million in mortgage debt on his required financial disclosure form — an error that was compounded when top White House ethics officers certified that Bannon's incomplete disclosure form was complete and complied with federal rules.

Instead of disclosing the creditors for the four home loans he reported, Bannon simply wrote "HOME LOAN" on each line of the form. Bannon’s form was the only one of more than 400 forms filed by Trump Administration appointees — and reviewed by the Center for Public Integrity and Reveal — that did not specifically list the creditors.

The reason mortgages and creditors are disclosed is to ensure that government officials and those entering government are paying market interest rates for their loans, and not receiving preferential treatment from creditors on the terms.

"What's most significant to me about this situation is that the chief ethics officers at the White House signed off on [Bannon's forms]," said Kathleen Clark, a professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis and an expert on government ethics.

"Individuals make mistakes. The real story is how shoddy the ethics process is in the White House," Clark said. "This raises an important question about the quality of the work that's being done, and how careful these White House ethics officers are."

The absence of such basic information on Bannon's financial disclosure appears inconsistent with the sworn statement Bannon made when submitting his documents. In it, Bannon had pledged the disclosure’s contents were "true, complete and correct to the best of my knowledge."

Bannon, one of Trump’s most influential and controversial advisers, signed his financial disclosure on March 30. The following day, White House ethics lawyers Stefan Passantino and James Schultz both independently certified that Bannon's disclosures were complete, despite the missing information. The White House then transmitted the 12-page disclosure form to the Office of Government Ethics.

Bannon’s omissions were first spotted by volunteers for #CitizenSleuth, a project launched Friday by the Center for Public Integrity and Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting. The crowd-sourced investigation is examining the detailed financial disclosures from more than 400 Trump administration officials.

Bannon declined to comment on his filings. White House press officials declined to discuss the matter on the record.




Steve Bannon Is Back—and Trying to Privatize an Entire War
While Don Jr. implodes, Steve Bannon and Erik Prince have hatched a plan to privatize war and pillage Afghanistan.
By Heather Digby Parton / Salon
July 12, 2017, 10:19 AM GMT

So according to Donald Trump Jr.’s own emails it looks like he, Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort knowingly met with a woman said to be representing the Russian government who was peddling derogatory information about Hillary Clinton. Whether that constitutes a crime is still unknown, but it proves that the Trump campaign was at best dumb as rocks, and at worst willing to collude with a foreign government to win an election in return for God knows what.

That story has sent an electric shock through Washington with tales of a White House in chaos and a Shakespearean family drama unfolding before our eyes. The president has uncharacteristically withdrawn from public sight as his son and son-in-law become the central players in the scandal with speculation running rampant about who is leaking the information and why.

Ever since President Trump’s inauguration there has been a tremendous amount of palace intrigue with factions loyal to Jared Kushner and Steve Bannon fighting for influence alongside whichever policy advisers and cabinet officials happen to be relevant that particular week. The Russia scandal has implicated Kushner in ways that make him especially vulnerable, however, and Bannon appears to be filling the vacuum.

According New York Magazine’s Joshua Green, who has been following Bannon for years and has a new book coming out on the subject called “Devil’s Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency,” Bannon is fully back in the fold after a few shaky months and he’s advising Trump to fight and win by any means necessary. Green reports that the withdrawal from the Paris climate accord, the recent moves on immigration and Trump’s Warsaw speech are all signs that Bannon’s influence is once again on the rise. He notes that Bannon, so far, is personally untouched by the Russia scandal:

Bannon’s feud with Kushner has quieted down. And so far, while at least ten White House officials and former aides, including Kushner, have retained lawyers in the special counsel’s probe, distancing themselves from Trump, Bannon is not among them.

Instead, he’s back in the bunker alongside a boss who is often angry, always under fire, and, on the matter of Russia, increasingly isolated from all but a handful of advisers and family members.

Green calls Bannon “Trump’s indispensable henchman, the man he turns to when everything’s going to hell,” and says he is in charge of Trump’s “war room.” That has largely been concentrated on assassinating the character of Robert Mueller, which Bannon evidently sees as the fight’s most important priority.

In a startling story that got overlooked this week amid all the Don Jr. email excitement, the New York Times reported that Bannon and Kushner have been dabbling in real war planning as well:

Erik D. Prince, a founder of the private security firm Blackwater Worldwide, and Stephen A. Feinberg, a billionaire financier who owns the giant military contractor DynCorp International, have developed proposals to rely on contractors instead of American troops in Afghanistan at the behest of Stephen K. Bannon, Mr. Trump’s chief strategist, and Jared Kushner, his senior adviser and son-in-law, according to people briefed on the conversations. On Saturday morning, Mr. Bannon sought out Defense Secretary Jim Mattis at the Pentagon to try to get a hearing for their ideas, an American official said.

I wrote about Prince’s relationship with Trump a few months ago. They’re close enough that Prince was with Trump and the family on election night. Prince has also been implicated in the Russian scandal, according to the Washington Post, having arranged a secret meeting in the Seychelles Islands with an emissary from Vladimir Putin to set up a back channel between the two presidents. Prince is also currently under investigation by the Justice Department and other federal agencies for money laundering and attempts to broker military services to foreign governments. His history of running a criminal operation in Iraq is well known, but he seems to have landed on his feet. It’s easy to see why Trump has such a high regard for him. He’s almost like family.

Prince wrote about his plan in the Wall Street Journal in May, suggesting that the president appoint a “viceroy” for Afghanistan, using the colonial model of the East India Company to illustrate his idea. Salon’s Matthew Pulver explained how Prince planned to bring this idea up to date:

The British East India Company was not simply a mercenary army like his Blackwater but an armed corporation that colonized like a state power. It was not merely a government contractor like Blackwater but an autonomous military and administrative entity sharing the worst aspects of both the corporation and the imperial state. So, Prince’s first innovation is to do away with civilian-military control administered by the Department of Defense and overseen by civilian, elected leadership, as is currently in place, and replace that apparatus with an armed corporation.

The second innovation will be to use cheap local labor paid for by resource extraction. Pulver wrote:

“There’s a trillion dollars in value in the ground: mining, minerals, and another trillion in oil and gas,” Prince says of Afghanistan. This would provide the revenue stream to replace government contracts. Prince’s firm would be self-funded, self-reliant, and thus autonomous to a degree more similar to a nation-state than a military contractor like Blackwater serving under a defense department.

I have long believed that the notion Trump is an isolationist is a grave misunderstanding. He’s a crude imperialist, who believes we should “take the oil” because “to the victors belong the spoils.” Lately, it’s become less clear that Bannon’s “nationalism” is aligned with America rather than some vague (and racist) notion of “the West.” It looks more and more as if Trump’s loyalties lie wherever the Trump Organization has a real estate or licensing deal. Prince’s plan sounds like it’s a perfect fit for both of them.

Thankfully, according to the New York Times, Secretary Mattis “listened politely” but told Bannon that he had no intention of including this daft idea into the review of Afghanistan policy that he and national security adviser H.R. McMaster are leading. Let’s just hope that Bannon and Trump are now so immersed in their Russia scandal “war” plans that they lose interest in privatizing a real one.
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