Steve Bannon

Occupations

Military

• United States Navy (197?-198?)

Corporations

• Goldman Sachs: Investment banker (198?-1990)
• Bannon & Co.: Co-founder (1990) and investment banker (1990-1998?)
• Affinity Media: Chairman and CEO (2007-2011)

Alternative media

• Breitbart News: Co-founder (2007), executive chair (2012-2018)

Political organizations

• Government Accountability Institute: Co-founder (2012) and executive chair (2012-2016)
• Council for National Policy: Member
• Cambridge Analytica: Vice president

Campaigns and PACs

• 2016 Donald Trump presidential campaign: Chief executive

Government positions

• Chief Strategist to President Donald Trump (2017)

Political connections

Republican politics

• Robert Mercer and Rebekah Mercer
• Donald Trump
• Roy Moore

Intelligence networks

• Cambridge Analytica and its parent SCL Group

Corporate connections

• Bain Capital and Mitt Romney (through a deal he did while at Goldman Sachs)
• Westinghouse Electric Corporation (which he represented in the 1990s in their sale of Castle Rock Entertainment to the Turner Broadcasting System owned by Ted Turner)
• Internet Gaming Entertainment (encouraged Goldman Sachs to invest in them in 2006, and then became CEO when it rebranded as Affinity Media)
• Andy Badolato
• Jeffrey Epstein
• Guo Wengui

External links

• Bloomberg, "This Man Is the Most Dangerous Political Operative in America", 2015/10/08
• Hollywood Reporter, "Ringside With Steve Bannon at Trump Tower as the President-Elect's Strategist Plots "An Entirely New Political Movement" (Exclusive)" by Michael Wolff, 2016/11/18: "In these dark days for Democrats, Bannon has become the blackest hole. "Darkness is good," says Bannon, who amid the suits surrounding him at Trump Tower, looks like a graduate student in his T-shirt, open button-down and tatty blue blazer — albeit a 62-year-old graduate student. "Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power. It only helps us when they" — I believe by "they" he means liberals and the media, already promoting calls for his ouster — "get it wrong. When they're blind to who we are and what we're doing.""
• Intelligence connections
  • Bloomberg, "This Man Is the Most Dangerous Political Operative in America", 2015/10/08: "Born into a working-class family within sight of the naval base in Norfolk, Va., he signed up straight out of college, and spent four years at sea aboard a destroyer, first as an auxiliary engineer in the Pacific, then as a navigator in the north Arabian Sea during the Iranian hostage crisis. By the time he arrived in the Persian Gulf in 1979, the U.S. was preparing its ill-fated assault on Tehran, and Bannon’s faith in his commander in chief had dimmed: “You could tell it was going to be a goat f---.” His battle group rotated out just before Carter’s Desert One debacle. Bannon became a special assistant to the chief of Naval operations at the Pentagon, earning a master’s degree in national security studies at Georgetown University at night."
  • New York Daily News, "Stephen Bannon apologizes for comments in explosive book, says Donald Trump Jr. is ‘a patriot and a good man’", 2018/01/08: "Bannon didn't deny making the comments to Wolff. In his explanation, he blames his remarks on his time as a naval intelligence officer during the Cold War, when he was stationed on a destroyer hunting Soviet submarines."
• Goldman Sachs career
  • Bloomberg, "This Man Is the Most Dangerous Political Operative in America", 2015/10/08
    • "[...] The siren of Reagan-era Wall Street capitalism drained the military life of its luster, so he resolved to make the leap. “Somebody told me,” he says, “if you want to go to Wall Street, you have to go to Harvard Business School.” HBS accepted him, and Bannon, at 29, matriculated in 1983."
    • "One day, a Goldman Sachs representative invited Bannon to a campus recruiting party: Thinking he could talk himself into a job, he donned a suit and headed over. “I get there, and there’s like 700 people jammed into this tent,” he says. “I said, ‘F--- it. There’s no chance.’ So I stood off on the side with a drink and these two other schmendricks standing next to me. And I talk to these guys. We have the greatest conversation about baseball, and I find out after half an hour it was John Weinberg Jr., whose dad runs the firm, and a guy named Rob Kaplan, who became a senior partner.” [...]"
    • "[...] The first few years, he worked every day except Christmas and loved it: “The camaraderie was amazing. It was like being in the Navy, in the wardroom of a ship.” Later, he worked on a series of leveraged buyouts, including a deal for Calumet Coach that involved Bain Capital and an up-and-comer named Mitt Romney."
• Former wife Diane Clohesy and the Miami meth and porn house
  • Washington Post, "During his political rise, Stephen K. Bannon was a man with no fixed address", 2017/03/11
  • Miami New Times, "Police Reports Show Repeat Domestic Violence, Theft at Steve Bannon's Miami Address", 2017/03/16
  • American Independent, "Steve Bannon's porn and meth house: 'You have no idea what kind of evil stuff went on'" by Jason Brad Berry, 2017/08/17
• Andy Badolato (alt-right activist and financial crook) connection
  • Daniel Hopsicker, "Trump campaign chief’s hidden ties to Sarasota grifter", 2016/09/21
  • Daniel Hopsicker, "Stock Fraud, Drug Trafficking, & the ‘Alt-Right’", 2016/09/28
  • Daniel Hopsicker, "Alt-right’ Trump operative running stock fraud ‘hyena pack’", 2016/11/04
• Guo Wengui association
  • New Federal State of China "protest" group
    • theBreaker.news, "Surrey assault victim: “They attack the real anti-CCP, actual pro-democratic activists”" by Bob Mackin, 2020/11/26: "Louis Huang, co-founder of the Vancouver Chinese Human Rights Watch Group, was punched and kicked while he was down Nov. 25 by two men who have been involved in ongoing protests on the street since September. [...] A group that purports to oppose the Chinese Communist Party has protested outside the house of journalist Bingchen “Benson” Gao since September. Gao has denied their claims that he is a spy for the Chinese government. Huang said he was in the area because Gao asked him to go with him to Surrey city hall and Surrey RCMP headquarters on Nov. 25 “to ask them to pay more attention to the ongoing harassment.” [...] “They pretend to be anti-CCP, but they attack the real anti-CCP, actual pro-democratic activists around the world, so we have to oppose them,” Huang said. The protesters are part of the New Federal State of China campaign created by Steve Bannon and Guo Wengui, who are also involved in the media startups GNews and GTV. Associates have staged protests against critics in other cities around North America. Gao has been critical of Guo, who is wanted for corruption in China. Guo was the developer of the dragon-shaped Pangu Plaza complex that opened for the Beijing 2008 Olympics. [...] Guo, who is also known as Miles Guo and Miles Kwork, is seen in a video circulating on social media on Nov. 24 saying that if Gao removes all videos from his channel and apologizes, “our comrades will stop their actions against him.”"
    • CTV News, "Video shows activist beaten, kicked amid unusual protest outside B.C. journalist's home" by Jon Woodward, 2020/11/26
    • CTV News, "After beating, Chinese journalist targeted in Surrey protest wants action from city and police" by Jon Woodward, 2020/11/27: "The protesters themselves didn’t respond to questions in person in the cul-de-sac Wednesday. They have leafletted homes claiming to be part of the New Federal State of China, a group founded by former Donald Trump advisor Steve Bannon, and Chinese tycoon Miles Guo, who is living in exile in New York. The aims of the protesters, and Gao, sound similar: they’re both criticizing the Chinese Communist Party. Guo’s group has claimed that Gao is in league with the CCP. But documents filed in an American court allege it’s actually Guo who is working with the Chinese government to target critics abroad. Guo has denied this."