Trump’s appointment of Stephen Bannon, who for years was the top executive at far-right news website Breitbart, has drawn criticism from anti-discrimination groups.
President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday appointed Stephen Bannon, the controversial executive chairman of far-right website Breitbart, as his chief White House strategist and counselor.
The appointment —Bannon first served as the Trump campaign's CEO — has drawn criticism from political strategists and anti-discrimination groups for his propagation of the alt-right, a movement primarily embraced by white male nationalists.
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Under Bannon's tenure, Breitbart published incendiary and often racist content targeting minorities, women, immigrants and the LGBT community. These included stories by writers the SPLC called the "hate group leaders of the anti-Muslim variety like [Pamela] Geller, [Frank] Gaffney, and [David] Horowitz."
![Under Bannon's tenure, Breitbart published incendiary and often racist content targeting minorities, women, immigrants and the LGBT community. These included stories by writers the SPLC called the "hate group leaders of the anti-Muslim variety like [Pamela] Geller, [Frank] Gaffney, and [David] Horowitz."](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_tUlCDNUfPwwmyG0TUOHgaBNU5ePwXnyQ6LFrXWKm_sM58fRYKleuxC__uPWJRk1Rni7BX1ZWYiFg=s0-d)
Bannon himself railed against the mainstream media in many of his articles, echoing his boss's rallying cry against "the dishonest media."
In 2016, Breitbart published a story labelling Republican Bill Kristol a "renegade Jew" for his efforts in opposing Trump's presidential campaign.
Bannon himself was accused by his ex-wife of trying to stop her from sending their children to private schools that had a large number of Jewish students.
During their divorce proceedings, his ex-wife, Mary Louise Piccard, claimed in court filings, "He said that he doesn’t like Jews and that he doesn’t like the way they raise their kids to be ‘whiny brats’ and that he didn’t want the girls to go to school with Jews."
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