Harry Reid calls on Donald Trump to rescind appointment of Steve Bannon

However, Reid’s roughly 18-minute speech was largely a condemnation of Trump, in which Reid held Trump responsible for the current national unrest and a called on him to remove Bannon, the CEO of conservative Breitbart News, from his appointed post.

“This is not about a difference in policy or politics – Steve Bannon has promoted anti-Semitic, racist, misogynistic and risky views that have emboldened white nationalist forces and caused some Americans to question whether they can still feel safe in the country we all love”.

The letter protests Donald Trump’s appointment of Bannon as his chief strategist and calls on the president-elect to rescind it. Naming Bannon, the letter suggests to Trump, “directly undermines your ability to unify the country”. But under his leadership, the conservative website Breitbart appealed to the alt-right, with headlines that demeaned Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol as a “renegade Jew” and advanced notions like “Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and insane”. Trump has come under fire since he announced Bannon’s appointment late Sunday, in a press release that included the announcement he was making RNC Chair his Chief ofStaff.

“I want to thank President-elect Trump for the opportunity to work with Reince in driving the agenda of the Trump administration”, Bannon said in a statement.

Bannon’s Breitbart coverage was one of the primary reasons former House Speaker John Boehner left his position, Green tells Tremonti.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, the Anti-Defamation League and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) also denounced Bannon.

Bannon is certainly due Trump’s gratitude for helping run a successful campaign that confounded the experts. “But, he has chosen someone as his chief strategist who created a ‘cesspool for white supremacists, ‘ in the words of one of his former associates at Breitbart”, Cohen said. He was one of Trump’s first appointments following last week’s victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton. Afterward, he went to Goldman Sachs, leaving to start his own media-focused boutique investment banking firm.

“Donald Trump got elected with a pretty broad coalition of perspectives and views around the country”.

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said Bannon was “unfit” to serve in the White House.