Steve Bannon's year: ex-strategist clings to controversy after White House firing

Steve Bannon's year: ex-strategist clings to controversy after White House firing

Since separating from the administration last year, Trump’s former chief strategist has suffered a series of losses After leaving the White... 00:01:00

Since separating from the administration last year, Trump’s former chief strategist has suffered a series of losses

After leaving the White House one year ago, Steve Bannon began popping up in the strangest places. In London, where he called ex-English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson “the backbone of this country”. In Paris, where he told the far-right Front National that “history is on our side and will bring us victory”. In Rome, to clap hands with Matteo Salvini, the far-right candidate turned deputy prime minister.

What is Bannon, Donald Trump’s former chief strategist, up to? “All I’m trying to be,” Bannon told the New York Times in March, “is the infrastructure, globally, for the global populist movement.”

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