On CNN's "New Day" Wednesday morning, former Trump campaign manager
Corey Lewandowski described Bannon's style as "win at all costs."
"Steve is a person who's had unparalleled success in the private
sector," Lewandowski said. "He is a person who, I think a little bit
like myself, is a bit of a street fighter, a person who is willing to go
right at his opponents."
Bannon has never run a political
campaign. But he has made conservative documentaries, raised money for
Breitbart News and hosted a Breitbart-branded radio show.
His harnessing of media megaphones led Bloomberg to call him "the most dangerous political operative in America" in a profile last year.
That description was quoted approvingly in a Trump press release about Wednesday's campaign shakeup.
The profile also described Breitbart as a "crusading right-wing
populist website that's a lineal descendant of the Drudge Report (its
late founder, Andrew Breitbart, spent years apprenticing with Matt
Drudge) and a haven for people who think Fox News is too polite and
restrained."
Earlier this year, when Lewandowski was accused of assaulting Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields
after a press conference, Fields said Breitbart executives did not do
enough to support her. She suggested that they sought to protect
Lewandowski and Trump.
Fields ultimately resigned. Editor at large Ben Shapiro and two other staffers also left in protest.
Shapiro said at the time that Bannon was a "bully" who "has shaped the company into Trump's personal Pravda."
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