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Blue State Blues: ADL Owes Trump Supporters an Apology

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has led a campaign of defamation over the last several months, involving false claims of antisemitism, and targeting President Donald Trump; his adviser, Steve Bannon; and Breitbart News. Now the whole story has fallen apart.

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NYT: Like Henry VIII’s Thomas Cromwell, Trump’s Steve Bannon Is a ‘Brilliant and Cunning’ Strategist ‘Trying to Destroy the Existing Order’

In his latest op-ed, New York Times columnist Timothy Egan explores the similarities between President Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon and King Henry VIII’s chief minister Thomas Cromwell, whom Bannon jokingly compared himself to when he told an interviewer last year, “I am Thomas Cromwell in the court of the Tudors.”

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CNN Scoop: Steve Bannon Knows Fact About Joseph McCarthy

Andrew Kaczynski, CNN’s chief Old News correspondent, sees a scandal in former Breitbart executive chairman Stephen K. Bannon saying that history has vindicated Sen. Joseph McCarthy — a fact that has been Old News since before Kaczynski began his career at BuzzFeed.

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Rep. Trent Franks: Smears Against Gorka Are ‘Repugnant’

Arizona Congressman Trent Franks came out swinging in a Facebook post defending Sebastian Gorka against baseless smears of anti-Semitism. Gorka is the Deputy Assistant to President Trump, former Breitbart News editor, and author of the bestselling book Defeating Jihad.

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NYT: Populist Steve Bannon Reassures Conservatives Uneasy About Trump

The New York Times’ Jeremy Peters writes that Donald Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon “offered a message of soothing reassurance to the conservative activists” at the annual CPAC conference on Thursday. Bannon’s reputation, Peters writes, “has taken on almost mythic proportion as a fire-breathing populist, emerging power center, man of mystery.”

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WaPo: Steve Bannon’s Navy Service During Carter’s Iran Hostage Crisis Shaped His Politics

In a Washington Post profile of Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, Michael Kranish and Craig Whitlock write that Bannon’s experiences as a naval officer during the Carter administration helped shape his conservative political beliefs. For Bannon, raised in an Irish Catholic Democratic household in Richmond, VA, President Carter’s botched rescue mission during the Iran hostage crisis was a political turning point.

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Zionist Group Demands Pelosi Retract Slander Against Bannon

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), a prominent pro-Israel group, is calling on Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to retract her recent comments calling White House chief strategist and former Breitbart News executive chairman Steve Bannon a “white supremacist.”

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David Horowitz: Stephen Miller, a Second Thoughts Warrior

Stephen Miller is President Trump’s senior advisor for policy and has been my friend since he was a student at Santa Monica High School in 2001, taking on his teachers and administrators for failing to respect country and flag in the wake of 9/11. Steve was raised in a liberal Democratic California household and his second thoughts politically constitute one of the bonds of our friendship, which can serve to illuminate the unique character of this White House – widely misunderstood on the left and right – whose president and chief strategist, Steve Bannon, followed similar paths.

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