Breitbart, the alt-right and the Trump campaign
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2016
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Steve Bannon — the latest leader of Donald Trump's campaign — is trying to make the election a referendum on Hillary Clinton. Her weaknesses are real enough, but establishment Republicans fear Bannon is associating their party with the right-wing extremism they're trying to avoid.
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| 0:51.8 | Donald Trump's been sounding mellower lately, reading prepared speeches off a teleprompter, |
| 0:55.3 | but traditional GOP leaders are braced for what might come next. |
| 1:00.7 | The campaign's latest CEO is Steve Bannon, who transformed the conservative website Breitbart by catering to the so-called alt-right. |
| 1:03.6 | That's the domain of white nationalism, misogyny, and anti-Semitism anathema to mainstream Republicans. |
| 1:10.5 | Breitbart has also published rumors about Hillary Clinton's health, |
| 1:13.8 | adding false reports to the very real issues about emails the Clinton Foundation and trust. |
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