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Steve Bannon
Senior Counselor to the President
In office January 20, 2017 – August 18, 2017
President	Donald Trump
Preceded by	John Podesta (2015)
Succeeded by	Kellyanne Conway Dina Powell
White House Chief Strategist
In office January 20, 2017 – August 18, 2017
President	Donald Trump
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Position unfilled
Personal details
Born	Stephen Kevin Bannon (1953-11-27) November 27, 1953 (age 71) Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Cathleen Houff Jordan (divorced) Mary Piccard (1995–1997) Diane Clohesy (2006–2009)
Children	3
Education	Virginia Tech (BA) Georgetown University (MA) Harvard University (MBA)
Military service
Allegiance	United States
Branch/service	United States Navy
Years of service	1976–1983
Rank	Lieutenant (O-3)

Stephen Kevin Bannon (born November 27, 1953) is an American media executive, political figure, former investment banker and the former executive chairman of Breitbart News. He served as White House Chief Strategist in the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump during the first seven months of Trump's term.

Bannon was an officer in the United States Navy for seven years in the late 1970s and early 1980s. After his military service, he worked at Goldman Sachs as an investment banker, leaving as vice president. In 1993, he became acting director of the research project Biosphere 2. In the 1990s, he became an executive producer in Hollywood and produced 18 films between 1991 and 2016. In 2007, he co-founded Breitbart News, a conservative news website, with Andrew Breitbart.

In August 2016, Bannon was named the chief executive officer of Trump's 2016 presidential bid. Appointed Chief Strategist in the Trump administration, he left this position on August 18, 2017 and rejoined Breitbart. After leaving the White House, Bannon opposed the establishment Republican party and supported insurgent candidates in Republican primaries. In January 2018, Bannon was disavowed by Trump for critical comments reported in the book Fire and Fury, and left Breitbart again.

Early life and education

Stephen Kevin Bannon was born on November 27, 1953 in Norfolk, Virginia, to Doris (née Herr), a homemaker, and Martin Bannon, who worked as an AT&T telephone lineman, later in middle management. His working class, Irish Catholic family was pro-Kennedy, pro-union Democrat. Bannon attended Benedictine College Preparatory, a private, Catholic, military high school in Richmond, Virginia, graduating in 1971.

After graduation, Bannon attended Virginia Tech and served as the president of the student government association. During the summers he worked at a local junk yard, often coming home so dirty his mother made him rinse off with a hose before being allowed into the house.

He graduated from Virginia Tech in 1976 with a bachelor's degree in urban planning. In 1983, he earned a master's degree in national security studies from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. In 1985, Bannon earned a Master of Business Administration degree with honors from Harvard Business School.

Military service

Bannon was an officer in the United States Navy for seven years in the late 1970s and early 1980s, serving on the destroyer USS Paul F. Foster as a surface warfare officer in the Pacific Fleet, and afterwards stateside as a special assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations at the Pentagon. Bannon's job at the Pentagon was, among other things, handling messages between senior officers and writing reports about the state of the Navy fleet worldwide. While at the Pentagon, Bannon attended Georgetown University at night and obtained his master's degree in national security studies.

In 1980, Bannon was deployed to the Persian Gulf to assist with Operation Eagle Claw during the Iran hostage crisis. The failure of the mission marked a turning point in his political world-view from largely apolitical to strongly Reaganite, which was further reinforced by the September 11 attacks. Bannon has stated, "I wasn’t political until I got into the service and saw how badly Jimmy Carter f---ed things up. I became a huge Reagan admirer. Still am. But what turned me against the whole establishment was coming back from running companies in Asia in 2008 and seeing that Bush had f---ed up as badly as Carter. The whole country was a disaster."

Upon his departure he was ranked as a lieutenant (O-3).

Business career

Investment banking

After his military service, Bannon worked at Goldman Sachs as an investment banker in the Mergers and Acquisitions Department. In 1987 he relocated from New York to Los Angeles, to assist Goldman in expanding their presence in the entertainment industry. He stayed at this position with Goldman in Los Angeles for two years, leaving with the title of vice president.

In 1990, Bannon and several colleagues from Goldman Sachs launched Bannon & Co., a boutique investment bank specializing in media. In one of Bannon & Co.'s transactions, the firm represented Westinghouse Electric which wanted to sell Castle Rock Entertainment. Bannon negotiated a sale of Castle Rock to CNN, which was owned by Ted Turner at the time. Instead of a full adviser’s fee, Bannon & Co. accepted a financial stake in five television shows, including Seinfeld, which was in its third season. Bannon still receives cash residuals each time Seinfeld is aired. Société Générale purchased Bannon & Co. in 1998.

Earth science

In 1993, while still managing Bannon & Co., Bannon became acting director of the Earth-science research project Biosphere 2 in Oracle, Arizona. Under Bannon, the closed-system experiment project shifted emphasis from researching human space exploration and colonization toward the scientific study of earth's environment, pollution and global warming. He left the project in 1995.

Entertainment and media

In the 1990s Bannon ventured into entertainment and media, and became an executive producer in the Hollywood film and media industry. Bannon produced 18 films, from the 1991 Sean Penn drama The Indian Runner to Julie Taymor's 1999 film Titus. Bannon became a partner with entertainment industry executive Jeff Kwatinetz at film and television management company The Firm, Inc., 2002–2003.

In 2004, Bannon made a documentary about Ronald Reagan titled In the Face of Evil. Through the making and screening of this film, Bannon was introduced to Reagan's War author Peter Schweizer and publisher Andrew Breitbart. He was involved in the financing and production of a number of films, including Fire from the Heartland: The Awakening of the Conservative Woman, The Undefeated, and Occupy Unmasked.

Bannon persuaded Goldman Sachs to invest, in 2006, in a company known as Internet Gaming Entertainment. Following a lawsuit, the company rebranded as Affinity Media and Bannon took over as CEO. From 2007 through 2011, Bannon was the chair and CEO of Affinity Media.

Bannon was executive chair and co-founder of the Government Accountability Institute, a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization (where he helped orchestrate the publication of Breitbart News senior editor-at-large Peter Schweizer's book Clinton Cash), from its founding in 2012 until his first departure in August 2016. For the years 2012 through 2015, he received between $81,000 and $100,000 each year; the organization reported that he worked an average of 30 hours per week for the organization. He has also worked as vice president of Cambridge Analytica's board, a data-analytics firm owned largely by the Mercer family, the family that also co-owns Breitbart News.

In 2015, Bannon was ranked No. 19 on Mediaite's list of the "25 Most Influential in Political News Media 2015".

Breitbart News

Bannon was a founding member of the board of Breitbart News, a right-wing news, opinion and commentary website. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Bannon said that Breitbart's ideological mix consists of a wide variety of views, including “libertarians,” Zionists, “the conservative gay community,” “proponents of restrictions on gay marriage” (sic), “economic nationalism” and “populism” and “the anti-establishment.” Bannon further said that he has zero tolerance for the racist and anti-Semitic views coming from elements of the "alt-right."

In March 2012, after founder Andrew Breitbart's death, Bannon became executive chair of Breitbart News LLC, the parent company of Breitbart News. Speaking about his role at Breitbart, Bannon said: "We think of ourselves as virulently anti-establishment, particularly 'anti-' the permanent political class."

Bannon also hosted a radio version of his news website, called Breitbart News Daily, on the SiriusXM Patriot satellite radio channel. In August 2016, Bannon left Breitbart to focus on Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. On August 18, 2017, Breitbart announced that Bannon would return as executive chairman following his White House employment. On January 9, 2018, he stepped down again as executive chairman.

Political career

Donald Trump campaign

On August 17, 2016, Bannon was appointed chief executive of Donald Trump's presidential campaign. Bannon left Breitbart, as well as the Government Accountability Institute and Cambridge Analytica, to take the job. Shortly after he assumed the chief executive role, the chairman of the Trump campaign, Paul Manafort, was dismissed.

On November 13, 2016, following Donald Trump's election victory, Bannon was appointed chief strategist and senior counselor to the President-elect. On November 15, U.S. Representative David Cicilline of Rhode Island released a letter to Trump signed by 169 Democratic House Representatives urging him to rescind his appointment of Bannon. The letter stated that appointing Bannon "sends a disturbing message about what kind of president Donald Trump wants to be", because his "ties to the White Nationalist movement have been well documented"; it went on to present several examples of Breitbart News' alleged xenophobia. Bannon refuted allegations that he was a white nationalist and claimed, rather, that he was an "economic nationalist."

In an interview with The New York Times in November 2016, Trump responded to the controversy over Bannon's appointment, saying, "I’ve known Steve Bannon a long time. If I thought he was a racist, or alt-right, or any of the things that we can, you know, the terms we can use, I wouldn’t even think about hiring him."

Trump administration

Upon his inauguration, Trump appointed Bannon to be his Chief Strategist, a newly created position. The title made him a senior advisor to the president, nearly equivalent in authority to the Chief of Staff. Breitbart editor Julia Hahn followed Bannon to the White House, where she was appointed as Bannon's aide, as well as Special Assistant to President Trump.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in the aftermath of the 2016 election, Bannon analogized his influence to that of "Thomas Cromwell in the court of the Tudors".

Several days after Donald Trump's inauguration, Bannon told an American newspaper, "The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while. I want you to quote this: the media here is the opposition party. They don't understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States."

Bannon, along with Stephen Miller, was involved in the creation of Executive Order 13769, which resulted in restricted U.S. travel and immigration by individuals from seven countries, suspension of the United States Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) for 120 days, and indefinite suspension of the entry of Syrians to the United States.

National Security Council

At the end of January 2017, in a departure from the previous format of the National Security Council (NSC), the holder of Bannon's position, along with that of the Chief of Staff, were designated by presidential memorandum as regular attendees to the NSC's Principals Committee, a Cabinet-level senior inter-agency forum for considering national security issues. The enacted arrangement was criticized by several members of previous administrations and was called "stone cold crazy" by Susan E. Rice, Barack Obama's last national security adviser. In response, White House spokesman Sean Spicer pointed to Bannon's seven years experience as a Navy officer in justifying his presence on the Committee.

Bannon was removed from his NSC role in early April 2017 in a reorganization by U.S. National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster, whom Bannon had helped select. Some White House officials said Bannon's main purpose in serving on the committee was as a check against former National Security Advisor Michael T. Flynn, who had resigned in February 2017 for misleading the vice president about a conversation with the Russian ambassador to the United States. Hence, with Flynn gone, Bannon was no longer needed. Bannon reportedly opposed his removal from the council and threatened to quit if president Trump went forward with it, although Republican megadonor Rebekah Mercer urged him to stay. The White House said Bannon had not attempted to leave, and Bannon said any indication that he threatened resignation was "total nonsense". Bannon only attended one NSC meeting.

Departure

Bannon's employment in the White House ended on August 18, 2017. Some sources stated that White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly asked Bannon on August 18, 2017, to submit his immediate resignation in lieu of being fired. Bannon, however, stated he was not fired but rather submitted his two-week resignation notice on August 4, 2017. He reminded The Weekly Standard that he'd joined then-presidential candidate Trump's campaign on August 14, 2016, and said he'd "always planned on spending one year," but that he stayed a few more days to handle the controversy following the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

In an official statement, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, "... John Kelly and Steve Bannon have mutually agreed today would be Steve's last day. We are grateful for his service and wish him the best."

The same day, Breitbart News announced that Bannon would return to the site as executive chairman. Several weeks after his departure it was reported that Trump still called Bannon using his personal cell phone, and only calling when chief of staff Kelly was not around. The Washington Post reported in October 2017 that Trump and Bannon remained in regular contact.

Post-Trump administration activities

Republican Senate primaries

After leaving the Trump administration, the media widely reported Bannon's efforts to unseat incumbent Republican members of Congress he deemed to be insufficiently supportive of Trump's agenda. In October he said he planned to sponsor primary challenges against six of the seven incumbent Republican senators in the 2018 elections. He said he had two requirements for a candidate to earn his support: they must pledge to vote against Mitch McConnell as Senate Majority Leader and to end the Senate filibuster.

Bannon received credit for helping Judge Roy Moore defeat incumbent Senator Luther Strange in the September Republican primary for the 2017 special Alabama Senate election, despite Trump's endorsement of Strange. However, the month before the election, nine women alleged sexual misconduct on Moore's part. Bannon maintained his support for the candidate, but Moore lost in the special election.

Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

In January 2018, upon the publication of Michael Wolff's book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, which attributed many controversial and inflammatory statements to Bannon, Bannon and Trump became estranged and were widely seen as enemies. The book quoted Bannon as saying that Ivanka Trump was "as dumb as a brick", that the meeting between Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort, and agents of Russia was "treasonous", and that Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller would cause Donald Trump Jr. to "crack like an egg on live television". Bannon also warned that investigators would likely uncover money laundering involving Jared Kushner and his family business loans from Deutsche Bank.

Trump promptly disavowed Bannon, saying that Bannon "lost his mind" when he left the White House, and attacking him in multiple angry statements. In a tweet on the evening of January 4, 2018, Trump referred to Bannon as "Sloppy Steve." On January 7, 2018, Bannon expressed regret over his delay at responding, declared his "unwavering" support for Trump and his agenda, and praised Donald Trump Jr. Bannon said his remarks about the campaign meeting were aimed at Manafort instead of Trump Jr., a claim which Wolff contested.

Because of the break with Trump, Bannon's position as head of Breitbart News was called into question by Breitbart’s owners, and on January 9 it was announced that he had stepped down as executive chairman.

Political beliefs

Bannon self-identifies as a conservative. He rejects allegations that he is a white nationalist, calling white nationalists "losers," a "fringe element," and a "collection of clowns," and describing white supremacist Richard Spencer as a "self promoting freak" and a "goober." Bannon also defines the term "alt-right" as "younger people who are anti-globalists, very nationalist, terribly anti-establishment” while rejecting the "racial and anti-Semitic overtones" found in parts of the alt-right. Conversely, President Donald Trump once referred to Bannon as "alt-left," saying that Bannon was "more of a libertarian than anything else".

Bannon often describes himself as an "economic nationalist," criticizing crony capitalism, Austrian economics, and the Objectivist capitalism of Ayn Rand, which he believes seeks to "make people commodities, and to objectify people." However, he has also stated that he generally considers himself a free market capitalist, believing it to be "the underpinnings of our society", while noting that he believes America is "more than an economy".

On domestic issues

In 2011, Bannon spoke at the Liberty Restoration Foundation in Orlando, Florida, about the Economic Crisis of 2008, the Troubled Assets Relief Program and their impact in the origins of the Tea Party movement, while also discussing his films Generation Zero and The Undefeated. Bannon has advocated reductions in immigration and restrictions on free trade, particularly with China and Mexico. He is in favor of raising federal income taxes to 44% for those earning incomes over $5 million a year as a way to pay for middle class tax cuts. He also supports significantly increasing spending on infrastructure, describing himself as "the guy pushing a trillion-dollar infrastructure plan". Bannon is opposed to government bailouts, describing them as "socialism for the very wealthy". He generally believes in reducing the size of the federal bureaucracy, declaring at the Conservative Political Action Conference he favored the "deconstruction of the administrative state". However, he does support increased regulation of Internet companies like Facebook and Google, which he regards as akin to utilities in the modern age. He opposed the merger between Time-Warner and AT&T on antitrust grounds. He was a strong opponent of the Paris climate agreement within the administration, successfully persuading the President to withdraw from it.

On overseas military intervention

He is generally skeptical of military intervention abroad, opposing proposals for the expansion of U.S. involvement in the War in Afghanistan, the Syrian Civil War, and the crisis in Venezuela. As White House Chief Strategist, Bannon reportedly opposed the 2017 Shayrat missile strike, but was overruled by Jared Kushner, Senior Advisor to the President.

In Afghanistan, he supported a proposal by Erik Prince for the deployment of private military contractors instead of the U.S. military. He believes "there is no military solution" to the 2017 North Korea crisis.

Bannon has described U.S. allies in Europe, the Persian Gulf, the South China Sea, the Strait of Malacca, as well as South Korea and Japan, as having become "protectorates of the United States" that do not "make an effort to defend ", and believes NATO members should pay a minimum of 2% of GDP on defense.

He also supports repairing United States-Russia relations and opposes upgrading the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

On the Middle East

In 2007, Bannon co-wrote an eight-page treatment for a new documentary called Destroying the Great Satan: The Rise of Islamic Facism (sic) in America. The outline states that several well-intentioned American institutions were guilty of enabling jihadists whose aim was to create an Islamic republic in the United States.

Bannon strongly favors U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, and was supportive of the approach taken by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during the 2017 Qatar diplomatic crisis and the 2017 Saudi Arabian purge.

Bannon reportedly speaks often with Trump donor Sheldon Adelson, and has been alarmed at a push for a renewed Middle East peace process. He has described Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as a "terrorist."

On the UK

Although Bannon initially favored the British National Party and the English Defence League in the United Kingdom, he later backed the UK Independence Party (UKIP), and met with Jacob Rees-Mogg, a prospective candidate for the leadership of the country's Conservative Party.

On Europe and Asia

Bannon is supportive of several foreign right-wing movements such as the French National Front, the Dutch Party for Freedom, Alternative for Germany, and the Freedom Party of Austria, as well as the Hindu nationalist government of Narendra Modi in India and Shinzo Abe's government in Japan.

Nigel Farage, the former leader of UKIP, once presented Bannon with a portrait of Bannon dressed as Napoleon Bonaparte. Bannon believes that the aforementioned movements, along with Hungary's Viktor Orban, Russia's Vladimir Putin, China's Xi Jinping, and similar political figures in Poland, Egypt, the Philippines, and South Korea are part of a global shift towards nationalism.

Reception and controversy

Bannon's political and economic views have been described by others as nationalist, right-wing populist, and paleoconservative. His appointment to the Trump Administration initially drew opposition from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the Council on American–Islamic Relations, the Southern Poverty Law Center, Democrat Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, and some Republican strategists because of statements in Breitbart News that were alleged to be racist or anti-Semitic. A number of prominent Jews, however, defended Bannon against the allegations of anti-Semitism, including Ben Shapiro, David Horowitz, Pamela Geller, Bernard Marcus of the Republican Jewish Coalition, Morton Klein and the Zionist Organization of America, and Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. Alan Dershowitz at first defended Bannon, saying there was no evidence he was anti-Semitic, but then in a later piece stated that Bannon had made bigoted statements against Muslims, women, and others. The ADL stated "We are not aware of any anti-Semitic statements from Bannon." Shapiro, who previously worked as an editor-at-large at Breitbart, said he had no evidence of Bannon being racist or an anti-Semite, but that he was "happy to pander to those people and make common cause with them in order to transform conservatism into European far-right nationalist populism".

Philip Elliott and Zeke J. Miller of Time magazine say that Breitbart has "pushed racist, sexist, xenophobic and anti-Semitic material into the vein of the alternative right". In February 2017, Bannon appeared on the cover of Time, on which he was labeled "the Great Manipulator". The headline used for the associated article was "Is Steve Bannon the Second Most Powerful Man in the World?", alluding to Bannon's perceived influence in the White House. According to The Economist, a British news magazine, Bannon and Stephen Miller "see Mr Putin as a fellow nationalist and crusader against cosmopolitanism."

In May 2017, a story in The Hill alleged that Bannon intentionally published stories to undermine H.R. McMaster. Bannon allegedly did this by leaking information to the alternative media, including writer Mike Cernovich. One month later, the New York Times alleged that the Trump administration retroactively granted Bannon a blanket exemption from federal ethics rules that allowed him to communicate with editors at Breitbart News, which according to former Breitbart consultant Kurt Bardella would be proof of the administration's intent to allow him to continue being "the de facto editorial director of Breitbart". Following Roy Moore's loss of what had been considered a safe Republican seat, Bannon's reputation as a political strategist was questioned by Republican commentators.

After the Charlottesville Unite the Right rally, which degenerated into violence and acrimony resulting in the death of one person, members of both political parties condemned the hatred and violence at the rally. But while most politicians blamed only the white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and alt-right activists, The New York Times noted that Trump "was the only national political figure" to place the blame for the "hatred, bigotry and violence" on "many sides." The decision to blame "many sides" was reported to have come from Bannon. The NAACP released a statement saying that while they "acknowledge and appreciate President Trump's disavowment of the hatred which has resulted in a loss of life today," they called on Trump to remove Bannon–whom the NAACP referred to as "a well-known white supremacist leader"– from the Trump Administration. The statement further described Bannon as a "symbol of white nationalism" who "energized that sentiment" through his current position within the White House.

Following Roy Moore's Senate race loss in Alabama, for what had been considered a safe Republican seat, Bannon's reputation as a political strategist was questioned by Republican commentators.

Influences

Bannon's strategic thinking has been influenced by Neil Howe's and William Strauss's Fourth Turning theory, which proposes that "populism, nationalism and state-run authoritarianism would soon be on the rise, not just in America but around the world. away the extraneous accidents and technology, you are left with only a limited number of social moods, which tend to recur in a fixed order. Forests need periodic fires; rivers need periodic floods. Societies, too." The book is said to have been a major influence on Bannon's film Generation Zero.

A former practitioner of Zen meditation, and a nominal orthodox Roman Catholic, Bannon's political thinking has been influenced by the politics of American populism exemplified by Andrew Jackson, Alexander Hamilton, Henry Clay, James K. Polk, Theodore Roosevelt, and Trump; by Pope Pius XI’s socio-political philosophy of subsidiarity, as expressed in the 1931 papal encyclical, Quadragesimo anno; and by René Guénon's Traditionalism, extolling the social efficacy of "primordial" faith traditions such as Vedanta, Buddhism, Sufism, and medieval Christianity. Bannon has also cited Alexander Dugin's variant of Traditionalism called Eurasianism. Bannon has been described as a "policy intellectual".

Personal life

Bannon has been married and divorced three times. He has three adult daughters.

His first marriage was to Cathleen Suzanne Houff. Bannon and Houff had a daughter, Maureen, in 1988 and subsequently divorced.

Bannon's second marriage was to Mary Louise Piccard, a former investment banker, in April 1995. Their twin daughters were born three days after the wedding. Piccard filed for dissolution of their marriage in 1997.

Bannon was charged with misdemeanor domestic violence, battery and dissuading a witness in early January 1996 after Piccard accused Bannon of domestic abuse. The charges were later dropped when his now ex-wife did not appear in court. In an article in The New York Times Piccard stated her absence was due to threats made to her by Bannon and his lawyer:

Mr. Bannon, she said, told her that "if I went to court, he and his attorney would make sure that I would be the one who was guilty" ... Mr. Bannon’s lawyer, she said, "threatened me," telling her that if Mr. Bannon went to jail, she "would have no money and no way to support the children." ... Mr. Bannon’s lawyer ... denied pressuring her not to testify.

Piccard and Bannon divorced in 1997. During the divorce proceedings, Piccard alleged that Bannon had made antisemitic remarks about choice of schools, saying he did not want to send his children to The Archer School for Girls because there were too many Jews at the school and Jews raise their children to be "whiny brats." Bannon's spokesperson denied the accusation, noting that he had chosen to send both his children to the Archer School.

Bannon's third marriage was to Diane Clohesy in 2006; they divorced in 2009.

Filmography

Bannon has been a producer, writer or director on the following films and documentaries:

See also

• Anti-establishment
• Fire and Fury (a book by Michael Wolff which includes interviews with Steve Bannon)

Notes

1. ^ Bannon was erroneously referred to as a captain, but a correction was given.
2. Bannon was erroneously referred to as a "managing partner."

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