Clinton on Trump team shake-up: ‘He is still the same man’

Former Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro called Donald TrumpDonald TrumpTrump adviser on Trump losing: ‘Says who?’ The best choice to keep us safe from terrorism at home is Clinton Billionaire father and daughter linked to Trump shake-up MORE a “turd tornado” in an interview on Wednesday after the Trump campaign hired the conservative news outlet’s chairman.

He came under fire for his prolonged feud with the Muslim family of a USA soldier who was killed in the line of duty in Iraq and for his unfounded accusation that President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were co-founders of the ISIS terrorist group.

Robby Mook said Trump’s shakeup indicates that he is not going to moderate his rhetoric, which included describing Mexican immigrants “rapists”, calling for a ban on Muslims entering the USA, and tweeting an attack on Clinton that used an anti-Semitic stereotype.

“And he keeps telling us who he is”, he added.

Trump’s campaign announced Bannon would become its chief executive early Wednesday morning, at the same time it announced Kellyanne Conway would serve as its campaign manager and Paul Manafort, still its chairman, would take a diminished role.

Adding to Trump’s woes this week was a New York Times report that Manafort’s name was on secret ledgers showing cash payments designated to him of more than $12 million from a Ukrainian political party with close ties to Russian Federation.

While there has been little reaction to Conway’s appointment just yet, Trump’s critics have pounced on the hiring of Bannon.

In blasting the changes, Mook cited a report by the Southern Poverty Law Center on Breitbart under Bannon.

He told reporters the news site “has undergone a noticeable shift toward embracing ideas on the extremist fringe of the conservative right”. “Anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant ideas – all key tenets making up an emerging racist ideology known as the ‘alt-right'”.

Breitbart also has “compared the work of Planned Parenthood to the Holocaust” and has “repeatedly used anti-LGBT slurs in their coverage”, he said.

In addition, both Trump and Bannon have “trafficked in deranged conspiracy theories” – including raising questions about President Barack Obama’s birthplace and contending that the White House was “importing more hating Muslims”, the campaign manager added. “Anyone who isn’t rejecting the kind of divisive rhetoric that Donald Trump makes needs to be held accountable for that”. “And he has made a decision to double down on his most divisive, hateful, erratic statements and behavior”.