Thread by @jennycohn1

My first piece with ⁦⁦@Independent⁩ : “Steve Bannon isn’t just a problem for America. He’s an international menace | The Independent” 11/17/21 1/ independent.co.uk/voices/steve-b…

“Bannon, who once said that his goal is to ‘bring everything crashing down,’ is more than a domestic problem. He is an international pariah whose efforts to ignite religious, cultural and political warfare in other countries warrant scrutiny.” 2/

In July 2015, under Bannon’s leadership, Breitbart published an article titled ‘Hoist it high & proud: The Confederate flag proclaims a glorious heritage’. Less than 2 weeks b4, white supremacist Dylann Roof had murdered 9 black people during Bible study in Charleston, SC. 3/

Roof said that he had hoped to ignite a “race war.” 4/

“In July 2018, a Philadelphia nonprofit called the Middle East Forum flew US Representative Paul Gosar (R-AZ) to a ‘Movement’ dinner hosted by Bannon in London with Nigel Farage and an anti-Muslim British activist and convicted criminal named Tommy Robinson,…5/

…according to the documentary The Brink.” 6/

“Bannon organized the dinner after a London rally in which some of Robinson’s supporters had given Nazi salutes, while others had assaulted police. Gosar had spoken at that rally, and Bannon was apparently impressed.” 7/

“Bannon eventually hosted more Movement dinners and formed alliances with Jair Bolsonaro and his son (Brazil), Matteo Salvini (Italy), Viktor Orban (Hungary), and Marine LePen (France), among others.” 8/

“Along the way, Bannon also joined forces with a Chinese dissident billionaire named Guo Wengui, who has funded some of Bannon’s projects and assisted with his War Room podcast.” 9/

“One of the podcast’s frequent guests is a professional agitator and far-right commentator named Jack Posobiec, who once promoted an event staged by the Polish neo-fascist political movement called Obóz Narodowo-Radykalny (ONR), according to…the Southern Poverty Law Center.” 10/

“ONR has a long history of promoting and emulating Nazism. Posobiec has also been accused of posting tweets with antisemitic symbols, including the ‘1488’ meme (meaning ‘Heil Hitler’).” 11/

“Bannon’s acolyte Nigel Farage attended Trump’s election eve rally in Pennsylvania. Bolsonaro’s son, Eduardo Bolsonaro, was in DC on January 6. And in August 2021, the younger Bolsonaro attended a voting machine symposium hosted by Bannon and My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell.” 12/

“During the symposium, Bannon declared that ‘Bolsonaro will win [reelection in 2022] unless it’s stolen by, guess what, the [voting] machines.’ At the time, according to The New Republic, “every major polling outfit” had for months predicted that Bolsonaro would lose badly.” 13/

During his brief stint in the Trump administration, Bannon co-created Trump’s infamous Muslim ban and reportedly led the effort to pull the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement. 14/ newrepublic.com/article/141102…

15/ “After the Brexiteers ‘won’ the vote to leave the EU, Brexit leader Nigel Farage thanked Bannon and Breitbart for the result. ‘Well done Bannon, well done Breitbart,’ he declared…”