Tag: Steve Bannon

Image WASHINGTON — The day after Britain voted to exit the European Union in 2016, Donald J. Trump landed in Scotland and promptly declared the referendum result “a great thing.” More than two years later, President Trump is back in Britain, and now he wants to speed it along. With its push to restrict immigration and its appeal to “take our country back,” the Brexit campaign was always a close political relative of the Trump movement in the United States. It is an ambition that Mr. Trump has often appeared to support, casting the European Union as an economic competitor that has stymied American farmers with its limits on genetically modified produce, hormone-treated beef and chlorine-washed chicken. That put him at odds with Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain, who is pushing a business-friendly approach that would preserve many economic ties to the bloc. One Conservative Party lawmaker, Bill Cash, told The Daily Mail newspaper that Mr. Bolton “gave a positive view of what he believed the president thought about Brexit.” Image The Brexit vote was unique to Britain’s strained relationship with other European countries. “The populist revolt in Europe is always six months to a year ahead of us,” Mr. Bannon said Friday in an interview from London. When asked about the vote, however, he made clear that he saw it as similar to what was stoking his campaign in the United States. “People want to take their country back,” he said. Mr. Bannon was on hand in London this week, meeting with Mr. Farage and giving interviews that praised Mr. Trump’s confrontational approach. No,” Mr. Bannon said.

President Trump calls on NATO members to contributor their fair share to defense spending; former White House strategist Steve Bannon weighs in on 'Hannity.' FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as…

(CNN)The White House's "zero tolerance" immigration policy and resulting separations of undocumented parents and kids is exploding into the most emotive and politically unpredictable test yet of President Donald Trump's effort to change the character of America. It's not just the usual Democrats who are criticizing the administration -- some prominent Republicans, including first lady Melania Trump and former first lady Laura Bush, religious leaders and influential figures in Trump's conservative evangelical base are also speaking out. "It's an atrocious policy," former White House communications director and Trump ally Anthony Scaramucci said on CNN's "New Day" Monday. Current first lady Melania Trump also expressed concern about the situation, though she did not break with her husband's position that only Congress can stop the separations. But the separations storm is injecting an unpredictable dimension to a critical week ahead in the immigration debate that sources tell CNN will include a meeting between Trump and GOP lawmakers on Tuesday. The House could vote as early as this week on a plan that would address family separations although the legislation would do little to change the underlying practice that has been implemented under the Trump administration. If the administration continues that practice, parents and children would still be separated. Three sources told CNN that Trump will meet House Republicans at the Capitol on Tuesday to discuss next steps on immigration, a gathering that could seal the fate of the House's hard-fought compromise immigration bill. And so you have to pay attention to that," House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows told reporters Friday. After spending a week already earlier in the year trying and failing to fix the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, there is little appetite among Republican leaders for a new immigration debate before the midterms.

Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon is standing by his former boss, saying that Trump has never lied or misled the American people. The panel reacts. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About: MSNBC is the premier destination for in-depth…

The Story: The Washington Post, on March 23, ran an explosive piece on alleged manuveurings by supporters of Judge Roy Moore prior to a special...

The Story: The Washington Post, on March 23, ran an explosive piece on alleged manuveurings by supporters of Judge Roy Moore prior to a special...

The claims that Cambridge Analytica used data harvested from millions of Facebook profiles to target voters in the US general election in 2016 raises tough questions for both companies. In what appeared to be a damage limitation exercise, the social network preempted the stories that appeared in the Observer and the New York Times over the weekend by banning the political strategy company from its platform while it investigated the claims. But this goes much deeper than that. Facebook’s 2.2bn active users might well wonder, how safe is their personal data? And is Facebook doing enough to secure it? ‘I made Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: meet the data war whistleblower Read more And why did Facebook only react on Friday, when it must have known there was a potential problem many months, if not years, ago. In August 2016, it sent a legal letter to Christopher Wylie, a former Cambridge Analytica employee, asking him to destroy any data he held that had been improperly collected. More troubling still is the apparent lack of any systematic response to ensure the same type of breach does not happen again. What are the Cambridge Analytica Files? Facebook may also find its users asking uncomfortable questions about the social network’s own use of data.

Play Video 3:05 The invasion of the body snatchers is complete. Donald Trump has taken over the conservative movement and bent it to his will. “Do you remember I started running and people would say, ‘Are you sure he’s a conservative?’” an exultant US president asked the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Friday. There were “Make America Great Again” caps, raucous chants of “Lock her up!” and “Build that wall!” and loud boos for the demons of the left. Old-school Republicans were thin on the ground, usurped by a crowd that included young and sometimes rowdy students. In 2016, with the presidential election on fire, Trump pulled out to avoid a potentially humiliating walkout. CPAC’s official Twitter account posted: “Very disappointed @realDonaldTrump has decided at the last minute to drop out of #CPAC – his choice sends a clear message to conservatives.” But the billionaire businessman and reality TV celebrity went on to win the Republican nomination and then the presidency. CPAC 2017 was effectively a coronation, though still with a strong hint of danger and uncertainty in the air. Buyers of the book were given a free “I HEART CO2” button. He opined that Trump deserved an A- for policy but an F for tone, telling the conference: “When President Trump complains that everything negative anyone has ever said about him isn’t true, or when President Trump says he had the biggest inauguration crowd in history, or when the president says there were good people marching in Charlottesville, that is not him waging an effective war against PC.

What a paranoid lunatic they said, 'Get off Twitter!' Yeah. The question at this point is how many Trump's people weren't spied on by the FBI. We know from Congressional testimony that Page spoke to Trump advisor, Trump campaign manager Steve Bannon while he was being spied on, meaning Bannon was likely spied on too. Suddenly it looks like the Obama administration may have spied on a significant portion of the Trump campaign team. Just how many people were surveilled and to what extent? Asking questions is a sign of disloyalty to this country. The very people that once told us that spying absolutely never happened are now telling us that spying was perfectly justified and normal. I, "would rather not have a paper trail," he texted in the oligarch's lobbyist. That story alleges just within the last year American intelligence agencies paid a spy -- apparently a spy working for the Russian government -- $100,000 in American tax dollars in exchange for unverified and possibly fabricated information about President Trump.

The Story:  Every year in late January, the World Economic Forum hosts a forum in Davos, Switzerland that brings together top business and political leaders...