Stephen Bannon

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Steve Bannon (2017)

Stephen Kevin Bannon (born November 27, 1953 in Norfolk , Virginia ), better known as Steve Bannon , is an American publicist , film producer and political advisor . From 2012 to August 2016 and from August 2017 to the beginning of 2018 he headed the Breitbart News Network website, which was classified as right-wing populist to right-wing radical ("far-right") . In August 2016, he became an advisor to then-presidential candidate Donald Trump . From his inauguration on January 20, 2017 to August 18, 2017, he was the chief strategist in the White House .

Life

Origin and studies

Bannon comes from a working -class Catholic family of Irish descent . He is the third of five children of telephone line fitter Martin Bannon and his wife Doris. Soon after his birth, the family moved from his native Norfolk to Richmond , Virginia. The parents were conservative Democrats and enthusiastic supporters of the Irish-born Catholic President John F. Kennedy , for whom the father was also active in the election campaign. Growing up knowing he was in the hardworking blue collar class, Steve worked in a junkyard outside of school .

The parental home was characterized by a very conservative Catholicism. The parents attached great importance to the weekly visit of the Holy Mass , and three sons attended the private Catholic military - High School Benedictine in Richmond. This saw itself as a bulwark against the advancing liberalization . Almost all of the cadets, like Steve Bannon, came from the working class, and there were often conflicts, including brawls with the rich “ snobs ” from two other high schools, where Bannon excelled. After high school, he studied at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University , which he graduated in 1976 in urban planning . There he stood as a candidate in the first year of the presidency of the Student Government Association ( student government ) and resorted to methods that (as his biographer Joshua Green ) should be his trademark: He printed flyer in which he accused the incumbent representatives, on the side To stand by the elite university management and only utter platitudes , promises and slogans . On the other hand, he will bring about change with a "dynamic leadership". Bannon won that election; he received over 60% of the vote.

Military service and finance

In high school, which was also a military academy , Bannon had made the decision to pursue an officer career. He had put in his studies at Virginia Tech in order to be temporarily freed from the military discipline that had shaped Benedictine. After that, he enlisted in the Navy , and he dreamed of one day becoming Secretary of Defense . After basic training, he was assigned to the destroyer USS Paul F. Foster , which specialized in combating submarines and was mostly in the Pacific . In March 1980 his ship, whose navigator he had meanwhile risen to, was ordered to escort the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in the Persian Gulf . As part of Operation Eagle Claw, eight helicopters were to fly from the Nimitz to Tehran in order to free the hostages held in the American embassy there. Bannon's destroyer, however , was dispatched to Pearl Harbor a few days before the start of this failed mission . The failure of the mission was nevertheless a decisive experience for him. He despised President Jimmy Carter , who ordered the operation and whom he blamed for the failure, and he began to admire Ronald Reagan , who sharply criticized Carter. In addition, Bannon began to see Islam as a growing threat to the West .

When Reagan became president in 1981 , Bannon was excited and wanted to work for the Reagan administration. He moved to the Department of Defense (Pentagon), where he worked as an assistant in the command of the Navy. He also attended evening classes at Georgetown University in national security and speculated with some success in the gold and silver trade. It was becoming clear to him that his career advancement in the Navy was very limited, while many opportunities opened up on Wall Street in the wake of the Reagan boom. Therefore, he applied for a place at the renowned Harvard Business School (HBS), where he was able to enroll in 1983 at the age of 29. When he retired from the Navy, he was a lieutenant, comparable to the German rank of lieutenant captain .

At the HBS, it was common practice to apply to potential future employers in the first year. Bannon was aware that because of his background and advanced age, he would only have a chance if he performed exceptionally. Yet despite his proven awards, all of his applications were rejected or ignored. By chance, on the fringes of an event organized by the investment bank Goldman Sachs on campus , where he had already resigned himself to the crush of the numerous fellow students , he met two men who had a casual conversation in which he chatted about his life up to now and his views when employees of the bank revealed and advocated that he was signed.

When Bannon joined Goldman Sachs in 1985 after graduating, an unprecedented boom of hostile corporate takeovers was in full swing. He was assigned to the Mergers & Acquisitions department, which specialized in helping companies threatened by takeovers defend themselves. In the first year, Bannon was also involved as an advisor to General Electric in the acquisition of the RCA group . He later specialized in the valuation of film production companies in Hollywood , where Goldman Sachs advised on acquisitions.

In 1990, Bannon left Goldman Sachs with a colleague and founded their own investment bank in Beverly Hills , Bannon & Co. As a service provider, it was involved in a number of large takeovers in the film business, including the 1990 acquisition of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by the hitherto little known Italian film producer Giancarlo Parretti for $ 1.3 billion, most of which he borrowed from the French Crédit Lyonnais after bribing some of the bank's executives. Parretti, whose past as a multiple criminal mafioso in Sicily only later became known in the USA, immediately set about plundering the traditional company, fired part of the management and instead put his 21-year-old daughter and several lovers on the payroll. After eight months, the hoax was exposed, Parretti was arrested and charged, and Crédit Lyonnais came into possession of MGM and many other film studios, known as Dirty Thirty because they were virtually worthless. In the subsequent foreclosure auction , the bank again commissioned Bannon & Co. to evaluate these companies. In the following years they negotiated, among other things, the sale of Castle Rock Entertainment to Ted Turner and received shares in several TV shows, including the sitcom Seinfeld , which became very popular the following year. In 1998 the company was sold to the French commercial bank Société Générale . During his time as CEO of Bannon & Co., Bannon became deputy director of the Biosphere 2 project in 1993 , with which he remained until 1995.

Media career

In addition to Bannon & Co., he founded his own film production company, which was equipped with 100 million dollars from a Japanese trading company. The first production was Indian Runner (1991), the debut of Sean Penn as a director. In 1999 Bannon was involved in the production of the film Titus with Anthony Hopkins . He became a partner of Jeff Kwatinetz in the media production company The Firm, Inc. and was involved in a 2004 film about Ronald Reagan ( In the Face of Evil: Reagan's War in Word and Deed ). From 2007 to 2011, Bannon was CEO of Affinity Media .

In 2011 he won the billionaire Robert Mercer as an investor for the news and opinion website Breitbart News Network and moved to the board of directors of the then insignificant company. When its director and founder Andrew Breitbart died unexpectedly in March 2012, Bannon took over the management and, mainly financed by Mercer, expanded the website massively with the help of many full-time authors. Bannon said in August 2016 that Breitbart News was “the platform for the Alt-Right ”, that it was “young people, [...] very nationalistic ”, “against globalization and against the establishment ”.

Also in 2012, Bannon founded the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) in Tallahassee with Peter Schweizer . Its aim is (as he told Bloomberg Businessweek ) to dig up “dirt” on politicians and thus “feed” the mainstream media, which have less and less money for their own investigative journalism. This non-profit organization was also funded by Mercer, and its daughter Rebekah Mercer , who also worked closely with Bannon at Breitbart, joined the board shortly after it was founded. The organization's greatest successes to date include an editorial in the Times in 2015 based on Schweizer's book Clinton Cash , which reported on alleged criminal activities of Bill and Hillary Clinton , as well as an equally titled and hosted film that was shown at the 2016 film festival Cannes was presented. Another book by Schweizer, Bush Bucks , similarly targeted Jeb Bush, the presidential candidate favored by the Republican “establishment” .

In 2014, Bannon helped found the data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica , where he served as Vice President from June 2014 to August 2016. According to then-employee Christopher Wylie, Bannon was the de facto supervisor of CEO Alexander Nix , and he had released nearly a million dollars to purchase Facebook user profiles that were used in the 2016 US presidential campaign. Bannon denies any involvement or even knowledge of this transaction.

Bannon left Breitbart when he became an adviser to presidential candidate Donald Trump in August 2016. On the day he left the White House on August 18, 2017, he was again Executive Chairman of Breitbart. In an interview on the same day he said, “Now I'm free. I've got my hands back on my weapons. [...] I am definitely going to crush the opposition. There's no doubt. "(" Now I am free. I have my hands back on my weapons. [...] I will definitely destroy the opposition. No doubt. ") He made it clear that his opponents were mainly in the establishment looked inside the Republican Party. In September 2017 it became clear that Bannon was looking for internal party opponents for MPs he did not like for the primaries for the 2018 congressional election and then wanted to support them via Breitbart. Bannon, Breitbart News and the Mercer family sponsored the arch-conservative Roy Moore , who ran for the seat in the US Senate in Alabama and won the Republican Party primary against the more moderate Luther Strange , who was supported by Trump. The seat was vacated by Jeff Sessions ' appointment as Attorney General.

Relationship with Donald Trump

Bannon had long been looking for politicians he could use to push through his populist - nationalist agenda and at times relied on representatives of the tea party movement such as Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann . In 2011 he met Donald Trump during a conversation in Trump Tower ; they discussed Trump's considerations of running against Barack Obama in 2012 . At this point, however, Trump did not seem to him to be a serious option compared to Ted Cruz , Rand Paul or Ben Carson . However, when Bannon took over Breitbart News in 2012 , he began doing admiring posts about Trump there. He got the impression that Trump, who could electrify crowds when he was speaking, might well be the right choice to stir up politics in the United States. And Trump began reading Bannon's Breitbart article, which he had printed out for this purpose. In this way, Bannon conveyed his nationalist worldview and, in particular, his hostility towards illegal immigrants.

In 2013, Bannon established a Breitbart office in Texas (headquartered in Los Angeles ) that focused on immigration from Mexico . In 2015, some time before Trump announced his candidacy in the party primaries for the 2016 presidential election , Bannon prepared a trip for Trump to the Texan-Mexico border, which he began soon after the candidacy began. Trump's remarks there about immigrants shocked even party comrades like Jeb Bush and Paul Ryan and were condemned in the press, but polls shot him up, putting him in first place.

Protests against Bannon's appointment (Chicago 2016)

In Trump's main election campaign following his primaries victory, Bannon was named campaign manager in August 2016. At this point, Trump's campaign was in crisis and seemed headed for a landslide defeat. He had already torn apart two campaign managers, most recently Paul Manafort , who was suspected of having received large sums of money from Ukrainian politicians. Bannon's appointment has now been received with great dismay in leading political circles.

On October 7, 2016, the Washington Post released tapes of 2005 in which Trump made lewd and derogatory remarks about women, caused a sensation. Bannon, who had hitherto been confident of achieving an election victory, saw this as a serious threat. Now he insisted on putting the opponent Hillary Clinton in such a bad light that people would “throw up” when they heard her name (“when you hear her name, you're gonna throw up”). In the weeks that followed, leading up to election day (November 8th), Trump rigorously implemented this strategy. On October 21, he called Clinton “corrupt” in direct conversation at a joint benefit dinner. When FBI Director James Comey announced a week later that he would resume previous investigations into Clinton's private e-mail traffic during her time as Secretary of State, Trump immediately took up the matter and gave a speech, every vote for his opponent is a vote for the surrender of government to corruption and nepotism and would jeopardize the very existence of the US Constitution. In further speeches and written statements, Trump conveyed Bannon's entire conspiracy-theoretical worldview by placing Clinton in a dark network that encompasses the entire global power structure, including the banks, the media, billionaires like George Soros and the US Federal Reserve - Chef Janet Yellen .

At the start of Trump's tenure, Bannon was named chief strategist in the White House, and he also made it onto the National Security Council . The New York Times , according to Bannon what Trump have understood only after the signing of the relevant decree carried in even the National Security Council. Bannon is no longer a member since Trump reorganized the National Security Council on April 5, 2017.

Bannon was initially considered the most important advisor to the Trump administration; in this position he was successively replaced by Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner . The United States' withdrawal from the Paris Agreement is attributed to Bannon's influence; he prevailed over Kushner on this subject. Likewise, the end of the Childhood Arrivals rule in September 2017 is rated as a victory for Bannon and Breitbart.

Even during his time as a consultant to Trump in the White House, Bannon's debts of more than two million dollars, including loans for four different residential properties, became public.

On August 18, 2017, the White House announced that new Chief of Staff John F. Kelly and Bannon had agreed that Bannon would retire from the White House on the same day. Trump announced on Twitter the following day that he was pleased that Bannon would be "a strong and bright new voice at Breitbart."

After the time in the White House

Bannon supported former judge Roy Moore , who is known for his radical-conservative stance , in the party primary for the US Senate seat for Alabama . Trump, on the other hand, spoke out in favor of Luther Strange, who is considered more moderate . Roy Moore won the primary. In the Senate election in the traditionally republican state, Democrat Doug Jones narrowly won against Moore. Mitch McConnell , the Republican majority leader in the Senate , publicly blamed Bannon for this. Right-wing conservative media also criticized Bannon's approach to the area code.

In January 2018, excerpts from the book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House , written by Michael Wolff and based on interviews with many White House employees , were published in advance . Bannon was quoted as saying that a meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and Russian lawyer Natalia Wesselnitskaya during the 2016 election campaign was considered treason and a criminal offense. Contrary to earlier statements, he classified the investigations into the allegations of collusion with Russian authorities as dangerous and established a connection with money laundering allegations against Donald Trump's son-in-law and political advisor Jared Kushner . Trump then announced in a press release that Bannon had "not only lost his job, but also his mind". His sponsor Rebekah Mercer and representatives of nationalist interest groups also distanced themselves from Bannon. According to media reports, the White House tried to prevent the publication of the book Fire and Fury . On January 9, 2018, Bannon's engagement with Breitbart News ended because of this affair.

Bannon at the conference The Future of Europe in Budapest (May 2018)

In March 2018, Bannon was on a European tour, where he met, among other places, in Zurich with the chairman of the AfD parliamentary group Alice Weidel and her deputy Beatrix von Storch . His plan to set up Breitbart News-style populist websites in various languages ​​in Europe met with great interest. This is now, after the USA, "phase 2" of his mission. On March 10th, he appeared at the party conference of the right-wing extremist Front National in Lille , northern France , where he promoted a global ultra-right movement against the establishment , the banks and the press to great applause .

In July 2018, based on an interview with Bannon, the news platform The Daily Beast reported that he wanted to found an organization in Europe called The Movement to support and bring together nationalist organizations in the countries of Europe. His goal was to have a third of the seats in the EU Parliament in the 2019 European elections with nationalist MPs. An office with ten employees is planned, probably in Brussels . He sees the new government in Italy and especially Matteo Salvini as a model for what is possible in Europe . However, the perfect opponent is the German Chancellor Angela Merkel , which he described as a complete impostor ( "complete and total phony") because they Germany by the agreement of the construction of natural gas pipeline 2 Nord Stream from Russia have made dependent.

For the mid-term election in Donald Trump's 2018 presidency , Bannon attended a campaign event in Upstate New York that none of the local Republican congressional candidates attended.

On August 20, 2020 Bannon was due conspiracy (conspiracy) to transfer fraud ( wire fraud , 18 US Code § 1343 and § 1349) for donations to the construction of the wall between Mexico and the United States and conspiracy to money laundering by a grand jury indicted and arrested . He was released on bail. Bannon had been a consultant for the fundraising organization We build the Wall since the end of 2018   . She had raised $ 25 million in donations to privately finance the construction of the border fortifications with Mexico.

Political positions

Bannon is assigned to the "alternative right" (" Alt-Right ") and described himself as an "economic nationalist ". Civil rights activists and groups like the Anti-Defamation League , the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Southern Poverty Law Center have accused Bannon and Breitbart News of anti-Semitic and racist sentiments; he is a supporter of the ideology of the superiority of the white race ( White Supremacy ). The publicist David Horowitz defended him against the accusation of anti-Semitism . Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, an Orthodox Jew, said Bannon was a Zionist and loved Israel.

media

Regarding the role of the media in the United States, Bannon stated in an interview with the New York Times in late January 2017 :

“The media here is the opposition party. They don't understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States. [...] The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while. [...] The media has zero integrity, zero intelligence, and no hard work. "

“The local media are the opposition party. You don't understand this country. They still don't understand why Donald Trump is the President of the United States. […] The media should be embarrassed, ashamed, shut up and just listen for a while. [...] The media have no seriousness, intelligence and do not do any hard work. "

- Stephen Bannon

US President Donald Trump agreed with this view in a CBN television interview the following day.

In November 2016, shortly after being appointed advisor and chief strategist to President Donald Trump, in response to some recent criticisms of Trump's campaign, Bannon said:

“Darkness is good. Dick Cheney . Darth Vader . Satan . That is power. It can only help us if they [the "Liberals"] get it wrong. When they are blind to who we are and what we do. "

Political establishment

From his contempt for the political establishment in Washington Bannon makes no secret - both the Democrats and the Republicans. In 2010, according to a journalist for The Daily Beast , Bannon said, “ Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that's my aim. I want to bring everything to collapse and destroy the entire current establishment. ”He also criticizes large banks and insurance companies because in the financial crisis of 2008 many of them were saved with taxpayers' money, while small investors like his father for some large price losses on their securities had not been compensated.

Administrative apparatus

During an appearance at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference on February 23, 2017, Bannon reiterated his opposition to government intervention and support for extensive deregulation . He spoke again for a “deconstruction of the administrative state”.

Climate protection

Bannon is a staunch opponent of climate protection and, along with Scott Pruitt , the head of the environmental protection agency , was the most important mastermind behind Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement.

Economy and religion

At a conference of the Dignitatis Humanae Institute in Vatican City in 2014, Bannon presented his view of conservatism : Due to its Judeo-Christian basis, capitalism was able to represent the culture and economic interests of the working class until the end of the Cold War . On the other hand, ongoing secularization made neoliberalism possible, which no longer cares for anyone except its elite . The return to traditional western religiosity should tame capitalism and defeat radical Islam . In this speech, Bannon referred to the Italian philosopher Julius Evola and the Russian philosopher Alexander Gelevich Dugin . The West is "at the beginning of a very brutal and bloody conflict" against " jihadist- Islamic fascism "; it was necessary to have a very “aggressive stance” against radical Islam and to defend the Judeo-Christian culture, and it was time to fight for one's own beliefs and “for our convictions and against the incipient new barbarism ”.

military

In February 2017, Der Spiegel described Bannon as a militarist who loves war. At home there were war books lying around everywhere, and Sunzi's Art of War was one of his favorite books. In the fall of 2016, he predicted that in five to ten years there would be a war between the US and China, as well as another war in the Middle East .

However, Bannon spoke out in advance of the air strike ordered by Trump on the Asch-Schaʿirat military airfield in Syria . With regard to North Korea , he directly contradicted Trump in August 2017 - a month before he was kicked out - by saying that there could be no military solution there.

Bannon is a believer in William Strauss and Neil Howe's theory that United States history runs in generational cycles of 70 to 100 years: it would always end in war; this is followed by another social and cultural high. After the War of Independence , the War of Civil Secession and the Second World War, a new purifying war was imminent. Bannon's 2010 film Generation Zero is based on this theory .

Marriages and children

From Bannon's first marriage to Cathleen Houff (* 1955), daughter Maureen emerged in 1988. In April 1995, three days before the birth of twins Emily and Grace, he married Mary Louise Piccard. The divorce from Piccard took place in 1997. For the third time, Bannon was married in 2006 to tea party activist Diane Clohesy. The marriage was divorced in 2009.

Filmography

Bannon was involved in various functions in films, namely as (co-executive) producer or as a director or scriptwriter.

  • 1991: Indian Runner (as Executive Producer )
  • 1999: Titus
  • 2004: In the Face of Evil: Reagan's War in Word and Deed (based on the book Reagan's War by Peter Schweizer )
  • 2005: Cochise County USA: Cries from the Border
  • 2006: Border War: The Battle Over Illegal Immigration
  • 2009: The Chaos Experiment
  • 2010: Generation Zero
    • Battle for America
    • Fire from the Heartland: The Awakening of the Conservative Woman (Director)
  • 2011: Still Point in a Turning World: Ronald Reagan and His Ranch
    • The Undefeated
  • 2012: Occupy Unmasked
    • The Hope & The Change
    • District of Corruption
  • 2013: Sweetwater ( Sweetwater , executive producer)
  • 2014: Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power
  • 2015: The Last 600 Meters
  • 2016: Clinton Cash (producer, writer)
  • 2018: Trump @War

literature

Web links

Commons : Steve Bannon  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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SURNAME Bannon, Stephen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bannon, Stephen Kevin; Bennon, Steve
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American publicist and (political) filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Norfolk , Virginia