Thursday, January 26, 2017

Steve Bannon called the media the "opposition party" and advised the press corps to "keep its mouth shut"


He criticized the New York Times and Washington Post by name in the interview, and said the mainstream media has “no power” as a result of the election.

His thug past...according to Wikipedia 

Bannon's first marriage was to Cathleen Suzanne Houff, born 1955.[86] Bannon and Houff had a daughter, Maureen, in 1988.[87][88] They were divorced.[58]
Bannon's second marriage was to Mary Louise Piccard, a former investment banker, in April 1995. Their twin daughters were born three days later.[89]
Bannon was charged with misdemeanor domestic violence, battery and dissuading a witness in early January 1996, after Piccard accused Bannon of domestic abuse. The charges were later dropped when his now ex-wife did not appear in court.[90] In an article in The New York Times, Piccard stated her absence was due to threats made to her by Bannon and Bannon's lawyer:
Mr. Bannon, she said, told her that "if I went to court he and his attorney would make sure that I would be the one who was guilty"... Mr. Bannon’s lawyer, she said, "threatened me," telling her that if Mr. Bannon went to jail, she "would have no money and no way to support the children." ... Mr. Bannon’s lawyer ... denied pressuring her not to testify.[91]
Piccard and Bannon divorced in 1997. During the divorce proceedings, Piccard also stated that Bannon had made antisemitic remarks about choice of schools, saying that he did not want to send his children to The Archer School for Girls because there were too many Jews at the school and Jews raise their children to be "whiny brats". Bannon's spokesperson denied the accusation, noting that he had chosen to send both his children to the Archer School.[90][92][93][94][95]
Bannon's third marriage was to Diane Clohesy. That marriage also ended in divorce, in 2009.[96]