Yarmuth, House Dems Ask Trump To Rescind Bannon Appointment

The consultant said he had not been given authorization to comment on the petition or Bannon and had shared a statement in error.

White nationalists have openly and gleefully celebrated Mr. Bannon’s appointment as chief strategist, and so far Mr. Bannon has remained silent on their odious endorsements.

Under his stewardship at Breitbart, the pro-Trump website unashamedly pursued a nationalist agenda and became one of the leading outlets of the alt-right movement.

Hallie Jackson (NBC reporter): “Bannon’s ex-wife claimed in a 2007 divorce filing he did not want to send their children to school with Jewish students, a charge Bannon denies”. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.is elected minority leader for the upcoming 115th Congress. “And already we have reason to”.

“It’s a awful mistake for Trump to choose a hate-monger and fear-monger like Steve Bannon as his chief strategist”, Rep. Cooper said Monday. Conservative commentator Glenn Beck recently said Bannon has a “clear tie to white nationalists”.

CBS explains: “Bannon himself has described Breitbart as a vehicle of the “anti-establishment”, and has repeatedly dissed House Speaker Paul Ryan”.

“When someone is going to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn, Stanford, all the greats” and then they graduate, “we throw them out of the country, and they can’t get back in”, Trump said. “I’m not looking backwards, I’m looking forward”. We can only hope Trump takes Reid’s advice.

That honeymoon appeared to be all but gone in the wake of the Bannon appointment, which does not require Senate confirmation.

“Trump’s November 13 announcement of Bannon’s appointment said he’d be an equal partner with future White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus in transforming the federal government, to make it more efficient, effective and productive”.

Bannon has been invited to attend the Zionist Organization of America’s (ZOA) annual gala in New York Sunday reportedly to fix his image.

“The appointment of Steve Bannon, a man who promotes xenophobic, racist, and radical ideologies, is not the way to bring people together”, said Rep. Albio Sires (D-8th Dist.).

Nevertheless, Blumenthal expressed hope the incoming Trump administration could indeed find common ground with congressional Democrats.