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  • 2017-02-03 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Steve Bannon Describe Himself as a 'Leninist' Who Wants to Destroy the State? (en)
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  • In February 2017, an image macro featuring President Donald Trump's chief strategist, Steve Bannon, along with a purported quote of his began to circulate online, holding that Bannon had once proclaimed: Unlike other image macros of its ilk, this one did replicate a seemingly documented quote, one recorded in an article published by the Daily Beast. On 22 August 2016, writer Ronald Radosh recounted a conversation he reportedly had with Bannon at a party he attended in 2013: Radosh followed up with Bannon before he published that information three years later, in 2016. The author said that he sent Bannon an e-mail to see if the latter wanted to clarify or correct his position, but Bannon told him he had no recollection of the conversation: We searched for other instances in which Bannon referred to himself as a Leninist and came up empty-handed. However, we did find multiple instances of Bannon's espousing anti-establishment ideals (although there was no other instance of him saying that he wanted to destroy the state). In January 2016, for instance, Bannon was quoted by the Washington Post's referring to him as virulently anti-establishment: In 2013, Bannon said that he didn't believe that the United States had a functional conservative party: While the purported quote bears a resemblance to other comments that Bannon has made, we have marked it as Unproven since we have been unable to turn up any other documentation of the conversation Bannon specifically said he does not recall. A request for comment from Bannon had not been responded to by publication time. (en)
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