Steve Bannon talks to progressive media outlet about Charlottesville…

by The Right Scoop

Apparently Steve Bannon called up a progressive media outlet called The Prospect and gave them an over-the-phone interview. They talked about several things, but the big one was Charlottesville:

WAPO – Bannon was also asked by Kuttner to comment on the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville last weekend and President Trump’s reluctance to condemn the participants.

“Ethno-nationalism — it’s losers. It’s a fringe element,” Bannon told the magazine. “I think the media plays it up too much, and we gotta help crush it, you know, eh, help crush it more.”

“These guys are a collection of clowns,” he added.

When the conversation turned to race and the events in Charlottesville, Bannon dodged questions about his role in cultivating the alt-right, according to the article. He also faulted Democrats for focusing on identity politics.

“The longer they talk about identity politics, I got ’em,” he said. “I want them to talk about racism every day. If the left is focused on race and identity, and we go with economic nationalism, we can crush the Democrats.”

This might explain Trump’s tweets this morning that we posted earlier:

One other note about the interview. Apparently Bannon contradicted Trump’s fire and fury comments on N. Korea:

On North Korea, Bannon said: “’Until somebody solves the part of the equation that shows me that ten million people in Seoul don’t die in the first 30 minutes from conventional weapons, I don’t know what you’re talking about, there’s no military solution here, they got us.’”

Wow. If that’s really their position on N. Korea then it sounds like Trump must’ve been bluffing the whole time.

Or maybe that’s just how Bannon feels about it which doesn’t line up with the rest of Trump’s inner circle?


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