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Trump Faces Backlash Over Appointing Bannon as a Top Aide, a Choice Critics Say Will Empower White Nationalists
posted on November 14, 2016The Washington Post’s Elise Viebeck and Katie Zezima report, “President-elect Donald Trump faces a growing backlash against his decision to name campaign chairman and former head of Breitbart News Stephen K. Bannon as chief strategist at the White House, a choice critics believe will empower white nationalists.” Under Bannon’s leadership, Breitbart News was described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as “a white ethno-nationalist propaganda mill.”