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applegrove

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Thu Apr 20, 2017, 09:26 PM Apr 2017

Americas biggest enemy isnt North Korea or Iran its Steve Bannon

BY MARK FEINBERG, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR at the Hill

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/the-administration/329738-americas-biggest-enemy-isnt-north-korea-or-iran-its

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Like every president, Trump vowed to protect and defend the Constitution, and the legitimacy of Trump’s presidency depends on fulfilling that oath. This is why his hiring of Steve Bannon has tainted his presidency from the beginning: Trump vowed to fight enemies of the Constitution, not to hire them.


In the election campaign, Bannon helped transform Trump’s finely honed ability to insult and humiliate opponents into the leading edge of a multi-pronged, strategic propaganda machine: Trump is a “blunt instrument for us,” he said in an interview. “I don’t know whether he really gets it or not.” (Gets what, exactly?)

But instead of thanking the far-right guru of fake news after the election and moving on, Trump brought Bannon with him into the White House, and Bannon moved forward with his white nationalist and anti-establishment agenda.

As Bannon himself has bragged, he shaped Breitbart into a unifying platform for a spectrum of hate, ranging from Tea Party racists to far-right extremist groups like neo-Nazis, Klansmen and white nationalists. The core shared goal among this spectrum of far-right extremist groups is to build a new muscular America as a white ethnostate. Standing together on Breitbart’s platform, they called themselves the alt-right. And by adopting this label, the movement’s leaders saw an opportunity for rebranding and to gain traction in the mainstream of conservative politics.


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Americas biggest enemy isnt North Korea or Iran its Steve Bannon (Original Post) applegrove Apr 2017 OP
It's not Steve Bannon!!! It's Erik Prince and Exxon Mobil. Initech Apr 2017 #1
Wow. Did not know that. applegrove Apr 2017 #2

Initech

(100,080 posts)
1. It's not Steve Bannon!!! It's Erik Prince and Exxon Mobil.
Thu Apr 20, 2017, 10:25 PM
Apr 2017

Exxon Mobil is a bigger threat to America than Isis is, and if the Russian sanctions are lifted, they'll become richer than 2/3 of the world! It will make them self aware. And I keep saying 100 times - Steve Bannon is expendable. He's a useful idiot, and they'll dispose of him when he becomes too much of a liability. Which is what's happening right now. Erik Prince is the real brains behind the Trump - Russia cabal and he's hiding in the shadows. If he comes out of the woodwork, they're royally fucked.

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