Staunch ally and former Trump White House chief strategist (for the first seven months of Donald’s term, anyway) Steve Bannon has publicly served as one of the disgraced ex-president’s biggest proponents of the aptly dubbed “Big Lie” — Donald and his peoples’ incessant and baseless claims that the 2020 presidential election was somehow “stolen” from Donald Trump via widespread voter fraud that literally does not and has never existed. Hell, Bannon has been so devout that he was actually one of Donald’s inner circle members who ended up indicted on Contempt of Congress charges for refusing to cooperate with a subpoena issued against him for his testimony by the January 6th House Select Committee.
However, those closest to the apparently staunch Trump ally on the inside have now come forward to say that the Bannon they saw behind closed doors was not the Bannon that the American people, or even Trump himself, saw pushing the ex-president’s unhinged conspiracy theories.
The former White House chief political strategist found himself at the epicenter of a deep-dive profile by The Atlantic, and one of Bannon’s former 2016 campaign colleagues said the former short-lived Trump administration official and staunch public ally was actually heavily dependent on Donald Trump with regard to both his reputation and his literal freedom following his highly-publicized arrest for allegedly defrauding supporters of the ex-president through a scam crowdfunding campaign to build Trump’s notorious wall along the US southern border.
Sam Nunberg, who was one of the first to snag a gig on Donald Trump’s first presidential campaign, revealed, “Steve was in on the joke. He never believed that the election would be overturned. Steve needed a pardon.”
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Nunberg went on to reveal that Bannon’s reputation and position as an intellectual heavyweight was every bit the scam as his fundraising efforts for the wall were.
“The tragedy of Steve Bannon, is that when he leaves the White House, he’s known as the great manipulator, the intellectual heavy of the international populist uprising,” Nunberg explained. “But still he ends up in the fetal position at Donald Trump’s feet.”
During the interview for the analysis, Correspondent Jennifer Senior specifically asked whether that particular quote was on the record. Nunberg answered with a resoundingly explicit confirmation: “F*ck yeah.”
Read the full analysis from The Atlantic here.
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