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Former White House strategist Steve Bannon speaks at a campaign event for Senate candidate Senate candidate Roy Moore in Midland City, Alabama on Dec. 11, 2017.Jabin Botsford鈥擳he Washington Post/Getty ImagesBy Alana Abramson and Simon Shuster / ZurichMarch 6, 2018 5:25 PM ESTFormer White House strategist Steve Bannon thi stanley cup nks the Time Up movement is destined to clash with a right-wing populist insurgency, starting with the midterm elections this fall.In a speech Tuesday an event hosted by the Swiss magazine Die Weltwoche in Zurich, the former Breitbart News executive chairman and Donald Trump adviser argued that a movement to fight sexual harassment and misconduct will eventually find itself fighting directly with the conservative populism he long espoused.Yoursquo;re starting to see an empowered, grassroots on the left, he said. It is a movement that, I think, focuses on the power dynamics in society and asks deep and searching questions, questions that are going to have to be answered.Time will tell, but I will tell you that in every country, starting with the United States, and starting in the midterm elections of 2018, these two forc stanley cup es are going to collide, and wersquo;re going to see stanley cup who wins and who loses, he added.Bannon has often argued that various political movements, including Islamic fundamentalism and right-wing populism, were historic forces fated to clash climactically, and he previously criticiz Ilnr Idaho High School Students Accused of Burning Down Principal s House in Revenge
By Mahita GajananFebruary 19, 2017 2:21 PM ESTWhite House chief of staff Reince Priebus denied any involvement between Russian intelligence off adidas originals icials and Donald Trump presidential campaign in new interviews on Sunday.The New York Times, citing anonymous sources, reported last week that members of Trump campaign and others associated with the president had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election. U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies based their findings on intercepted communications, the Times reported. The agencies did not find any evidence that the campaign was working with Russia to influence the election outcome, according to the Times.During an appearance on NBC Meet the Press, Priebus called the report grossly overstated and inaccurate.I mean, we ;ve spent days talking about a story that says that our campaign had constant contacts with Russian spies. And I can tell you, I ;ve tal ugg ked to the top levels of the intelligence community, and they ;ve assured me that that New York Times story was grossly overstated and inaccurate and totally wrong, Priebus told host Chuck Todd.He continued: It is this sort of fake news stuff that is enormously important that, when you get a front page story of New York Times without a single source on the record saying that adidas campus your campaign had constant contact they didnrsquo;t say one contact. T |
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