12 March 2018 - Steve Bannon Tells French Far Right 'History is on Our Side'
Bannon tells French far-right party to ‘let them call you racist’ as it seeks rebrand
Associated Press (NBC News, 11/03/2018)
Former White House strategist Steve Bannon re-energized France's struggling far-right National Front party Saturday by speaking at a party congress and telling Marine Le Pen's nationalist supporters: "History is on our side."
Bannon's appearance in France was part of a European tour as he seeks an international platform for his closed-borders, anti-foreigner message that helped Donald Trump win the U.S. presidency.
The former Breitbart News chairman was an early admirer of the National Front, whose long-standing "French First" motto rallied voters for years before Trump's "America First" campaign.
Steve Bannon Takes Anti-Establishment Message Overseas: 'Let Them Call You Racists'
Amy Held (NPR, 11/03/2018)
Both have suffered political falls and on Saturday in Lille, France, Steve Bannon, the onetime chief White House strategist, and Marine Le Pen, who lost the French presidency to Emmanuel Macron in May, sought to prop up each other with a shared anti-establishment stance.
Bannon, on a European tour that includes stops in Germany and Italy, addressed a party congress of the far-right National Front, a group that espouses a protectionist and populist agenda.
"Let them call you racists. Let them call you xenophobes. Let them call you nativists. Wear it as a badge of honor," Bannon told the crowd to applause.
Steve Bannon Is Done Wrecking the American Establishment. Now He Wants to Destroy Europe’s.
Jason Horowitz (The New York Times, 09/03/2018)
Stephen K. Bannon leaned back in an armchair opposite a copy of a painting by an Italian old master and explained his modest efforts to build a vast network of European populists to demolish the Continent’s political establishment.
“All I’m trying to be,” he said, “is the infrastructure, globally, for the global populist movement.”
Just that.
Only months ago, Mr. Bannon was forced out of the White House and Breitbart News, the alt-right news empire he helped make into a political force, for the sharp criticisms of President Trump’s children attributed to him in a book. “He’s lost his mind,” Mr. Trump said at the time.
Bannon takes 'economic nationalism' message to Europe
Bradford Bretz (Fox News, 11/03/2018)
Former White House strategist and former Breitbart News chairman Steve Bannon re-energized France's struggling far-right National Front party Saturday by speaking at a party congress and telling Marine Le Pen's nationalist supporters: "History is on our side."
Bannon's appearance in Lille, France, was part of a European tour as he seeks an international platform for his "economic nationalism" message that helped Donald Trump win the U.S. presidency.
"Let them call you racist. Let them call you xenophobes. Let them call you nativists. Wear it as a badge of honor," he told the crowd at the party congress.