Trump Stories: Bannon

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🗓️ 19 October 2017

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Now that Steve Bannon has left the Trump Administration, he says he is waging #war against the Republican establishment in the name of populist nationalism. But before he got involved in politics, Bannon spent decades in Hollywood, and his time there can tell us a lot about the origins of his beliefs. Follow Kelly McEvers on Twitter @kellymcevers, Tom Dreisbach @TomDreisbach, and Chris Benderev @cbndrv. Email us at embedded@npr.org and find us on Twitter @nprembedded.

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0:40.4	So there's this movie that I had never heard of until we started reporting these latest
0:45.4	episodes about Donald Trump and his closest advisors.
0:49.4	A movie that does not seem like it could have anything to do with the news, but it does.
0:54.4	It's called The Indian Runner and it came out in 1991.
0:59.4	The Indian know the deer moved in circles.
1:04.4	It was directed by Sean Penn and it's actually about this guy who comes back from Vietnam
1:10.4	to his small Midwestern town and starts freaking out and having these hallucinations
1:16.4	that he's a Native American messenger.
1:19.4	I'm an Indian runner who runs through the cornfields.
1:24.4	Vigo Mortensen is the main character.
1:28.4	His girlfriend is Patricia Arquette.
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