Remarkably, with 85 days left before the general election, Bannon came on board and brought the campaign some much-needed focus. Most of all, she knew Bannon was someone Trump would actually listen to. Mercer knew Trump was no stranger to Breitbart and that he liked and respected Bannon. Indeed, Mercer told Bannon that Trump’s current campaign manager, Paul Manafort, was “a disaster.” She then advised Bannon to go meet with Trump and save the sinking boat. That morning’s newspapers had Trump 20 points behind Clinton, and there were plenty of stories about the campaign being in disarray. Bannon saw that the Trump campaign was in trouble.

So, like many others, Bannon was surprised when Trump managed to secure the Republican nomination in the 2016 election.īy then, Bannon was running Breitbart News, an online outlet for far-right political commentary, and on August 13, 2016, he placed a call to Rebekah Mercer, one of Breitbart’s financial backers.

But he also found it highly entertaining, as Trump struggled to comprehend how his record of Democratic donations and pro-choice support could affect his chances as a Republican candidate. That year, conservative pundit David Bossie took Bannon to meet Donald Trump, who was thinking of running for president as a Republican.Īt the time, Bannon regarded the meeting as pointless. Back in 2010, Steve Bannon was making political films to support the Tea Party, a right-wing populist movement that had taken American politics by surprise.

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