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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Mar 10, 2018, 10:40 AM Mar 2018

Trump's ex-aide Bannon to address National Front congress in France

Source: Reuters




WORLD NEWS MARCH 10, 2018 / 4:30 AM / UPDATED 5 HOURS AGO

PARIS (Reuters) - Former White House strategist Steve Bannon, a champion of Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda, will address the party congress of France’s far-right National Front on Saturday, a senior official of the French anti-immigrant party said.

Bannon, an American nationalist who ran the right-wing Breitbart News, was among Trump’s closest aides during the 2016 U.S. election campaign, the presidential transition and his first months in office. But the pair had a bitter public falling out and Bannon was fired by the White House last August, though he continued to speak with Trump and tried to promote the president’s agenda.

National Front leader Marine Le Pen will meet Bannon at her party’s convention in the French city of Lille on Saturday, her partner Louis Aliot said in a tweet.

The party is expected to unveil a new name as it searches for more voters and relevance in a political landscape transformed by President Emmanuel Macron, a centrist who defeated Le Pen in France’s election last May.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-politics-bannon/trumps-ex-aide-bannon-to-address-national-front-congress-in-france-idUSKBN1GM07Q?il=0

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Trump's ex-aide Bannon to address National Front congress in France (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2018 OP
Nazis gonna Nazi jayschool2013 Mar 2018 #1
I'm stealing that line underpants Mar 2018 #2
Me too. OregonBlue Mar 2018 #3
When will they ask herr drumpf to speak? greatauntoftriplets Mar 2018 #4
No remaining political capital left in the U.S. Therefore.... Zambero Mar 2018 #5
I'm looking forward to Bannon's indictment. It will be cause for celebration. Eyeball_Kid Mar 2018 #6

Eyeball_Kid

(7,432 posts)
6. I'm looking forward to Bannon's indictment. It will be cause for celebration.
Sat Mar 10, 2018, 11:42 AM
Mar 2018

He's one evil character who's apparently bored with his existing domestic life, so he's eager to spread suffering abroad. Guaranteed, prosecutors will be listening to his drivel.

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