Stephen Bannon
Stephen Bannon
House Judiciary Committee ranking member John Conyers of Detroit calls for President-elect Donald Trump to remove Stephen K. Bannon as White House chief strategist.
The appointee is executive chairman of Breitbart News Network.
“Steve Bannon is the standard-bearer for the worst instincts in American society," Conyers says in a statement. “Whether or not Mr. Bannon personally trades in violence, racism and bigotry, he allowed his media organization to become a platform for white nationalism, misogyny, anti-Semitism, and anti-immigrant sentiment of the worst kind.
"He encouraged it. He bragged about it. His appointment validates the views of the so-called ‘alt-right,’ and we cannot allow him to use the White House to the same ends."
“I call on President-elect Trump to remove Mr. Bannon from his team without delay. If the President-elect has any hope of unifying this country—if we are to ‘come together as never before,’ in his words—then he cannot allow Mr. Bannon to serve in his White House.”
