Breitbart News, Donald Trump’s Pravda, Is in Crisis
Close Earlier this year, reporter Lee Stranahan was in the White House press room when another journalist asked him which outlet he worked for. “Breitbart News,” Stranahan answered, recalling the exchange in a recent phone conversation. The other journalist laughed, thinking this had to be a joke. Breitbart, after all, was largely known, whether justly […]
Trump Assistant Gorka Is Leaving the White House
U.S. President Donald Trump’s deputy assistant Sebastian Gorka is on his way out of the White House, according to reports. Gorka, a former national security editor of far-right website Breitbart, joined the administration as a terrorism adviser. He will take a job at a federal agency dealing with “the war of ideas” surrounding the battle […]
Steve Bannon dropped from National Security Council
Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump’s chief strategist, has lost his seat on the powerful National Security Council (NSC) in a high-level shakeup, US officials said on Wednesday. Trump’s elevation of Bannon to a permanent spot on the NSC had been widely criticised as injecting politics into White House deliberations on sensitive defence, foreign policy, and […]
Milo Yiannopoulos appears to advocate child molestation in a video and the outrage is deafening
The already bizarre and controversial nature of gay, right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos took an explosive turn Sunday when a video of him seemingly advocating child molestation — “coming of age” sexual relationships between grown men and children as young as 13 — went viral. Breaking: We obtained the #CPAC2017 Milo Yiannopoulos introductory video. This is […]
Breitbart Could Fire Yiannopoulos Over Pedophilia Comments
Breitbart editor and far-right writer Milo Yiannopoulos issued an apology Monday after he was labeled as too flippant or perhaps even a pedophilia sympathizer following an interview conducted last year, according to media reports. Now, it’s possible the conservative news site has considered firing the highly controversial Yiannopoulos, Fox Business reported. Yiannopoulos, who some have […]
Breitbart alumni shape the message at Trump’s White House
President Donald Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon isn’t the only former employee of Breitbart News to find a new home in the White House. Bannon brought on Sebastian Gorka, a deputy assistant to the president and author of “Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War.” Gorka’s refugee parents escaped from Communist Hungary in 1956. Now, he’s making […]
Meet Robert Mercer, Billionaire Benefactor of Breitbart
Robert Mercer seemed uncomfortable. It was 2014, and the billionaire had just stepped behind the podium to accept a lifetime achievement award at the annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguists. Dressed in a suit and tie, he warned his audience that speaking to them for the required hour or so was “more than […]