Israel looks forward to working with Trump senior adviser Bannon: ambassador
The Democratic Party of New Mexico quickly denounced Martinez’s comments, accusing her of supporting “Donald Trump’s appointment of a white supremacist”. Breitbart News is popular with a movement known as the “alt-right”, which critics accuse of fostering white nationalist sentiment. “Steve Bannon is a Georgetown Harvard MBA grad, a former naval officer, a former Goldman Sachs vice president and really the general, the field general in our successful campaign effort – a brilliant tactician and serves president elect Donald Trump very well”.
But Trump, who has pledged to build a wall along the USA border with Mexico to keep people out, has said he wants immigrants educated at Ivy League universities and therefore capable of success to stay.
Bannon offers some reaction to the media uproar over Trump choosing him to be in the White House–phrases like “anti-Semite” and “white nationalist” most prominently come to mind–and he emphatically says, “I’m not a white nationalist, I’m a nationalist”.
A growing crowd of protesters chanted and waved signs decrying Bannon, who has been accused by opponents of fostering misogyny, white nationalism and anti-Semitism.
The decision is Mr. Trump’s.
Since Donald Trump’s election, yields on government bonds throughout the world, including the US, have climbed. “We urge you to condemn this appointment immediately and without reservation”. Over 150 members of Congress, mostly Democrats, have called on Trump to remove Bannon from his position. “You surely recognize that the views Mr. Bannon espouses and promotes have no place in the White House – just as they would have no place in the companies you operate”. To make America even greater we need to embrace our diversity. The Southern Policy Law Center, a leading civil rights group, has also called out Bannon for actively courting white nationalists.
In a letter, the Democratic lawmakers accuse Bannon of being anti-Semitic and racist, citing his time as chief executive of Breitbart.com, a website that has increasingly been associated with the so-called “alt-right”.
Notably, in the press release, Bannon’s appointment was given top billing.
“Millions of Americans have expressed fear and concern about how they will be treated by the Trump Administration and your appointment of Bannon only exacerbates and validates their concerns”, they said. “The American people chose their next president.”.