Judd Legum
From the fringes to the Oval Office.
President-elect Donald Trump made a pair of key staff decisions—the first two of the transition—on Sunday night.
Reince Preibus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee who helped mainstream Trump in the party, was named Chief of Staff. This position is traditionally viewed as a top staff position in the White House and will garner most of the headlines.
But Trump also named Steve Bannon, the executive chairman of Breitbart News, as “chief strategist and senior counselor” to the president. He will be one of Trump’s closest advisers and, one can presume, one of the most powerful people in America.
Bannon also served as the CEO of the Trump campaign.
In his role at Breitbart, he promoted and legitimized the modern white supremacist movement, sometimes euphemistically referred to as the “alt-right.”
Ben Shapiro, who worked alongside Bannon for four years as Breitbart’s Editor-at-Large, wrote that Bannon “openly embraced the white supremacist alt-right.” According to Shapiro, “Breitbart has become the alt-right go-to website… pushing white ethno-nationalism as a legitimate response to political correctness, and the comment section turning into a cesspool for white supremacist mememakers.”
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-chief-strategist-ad23b5c166f6#.yh9ru18rx
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