Steve Bannon, the chief strategist and senior counselor to President Trump, said the press should be ashamed at how out of touch it is with the United States and just “listen for a while.” Bannon, who used to edit the far-right website Breitbart before heading Trump’s presidential campaign, delivered the ... Read More »

President Donald Trump’s chief strategist has described US mainstream media as “the opposition party”, saying it should “keep its mouth shut”. Stephen Bannon also told the New York Times that news organisations had been “humiliated” by their failure to anticipate Mr Trump’s election victory. Media outlets have clashed with the ... Read More »

Former Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro unloaded on the right-wing website’s chairman, Stephen K. Bannon, on Wednesday after news brokethat Donald Trump had appointed him as campaign CEO. “Bannon is a legitimately sinister figure,” Shapiro, who left Breitbart earlier this year in a fiery exit, wrote on his website. The conservative ... Read More »