23 August, 2017
Marlow laid out Breitbart's plan to position Bannon, the former White House chief strategist, as the saving grace of the Trump administration and let Breitbart's editors do the "dirty work". When Trump returned to the White House on May 8, he informed aides that he was going to fire Comey, and he dismissed the Federal Bureau of Investigation director the next day.
In the emails, Marlow raved about what he called a "conspiracy" involving Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump's marriage, adding that Bannon had previously described them as "evil" and said no administration is more divided than Trump's. CNN did not publish what the content of that smear was.
"The Trump presidency that we fought for, and won, is over", Bannon said in an interview with the Weekly Standard after his ouster last week.
Vanity Fair pointed out that two Sunday articles featured on the site focused on Kushner and Ivanka Trump, one even using their Bannon-bestowed nickname in the title: "6 TIMES JAVANKA'S DISPLEASURE WITH POTUS LEAKED TO PRESS".
Marlow replied: "I spooked em today". "If people want to know our thinking, they don't need to judge us on illicitly obtained comments that were meant to be private, they can simply read our front page", Marlow wrote.
"Did five stories on globalist takeover positioning you as only hope to stop it", Marlow emailed the fake account.
Marlow then continued: "You need to own that, just have surrogates do the dirty work".
Pollack replied, "Excellent." He noted that he tried calling and then sent along his phone number. "Not sure if you have the same number".
The person, who has not been identified, told CNN: "It all seemed very duplicitous and littered with nuance and righteousness".
"Mr. Bannon made little secret of the fact that he believed 'Javanka, ' as he referred to the couple behind their backs, had naïve political instincts and were going to alienate Mr. Trump's core coalition of white working-class voters", wrote The New York Times in a recent report detailing Bannon's White House exit. On Monday, for instance, the website savaged Trump's speech on Afghanistan, placing much of the blame for the strategy on National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster. He told the Weekly Standard on Friday that he felt "jacked up" to be back at Breitbart and once again have his hands "back on my weapons". "There's no doubt. I built a f***ing machine at Breitbart".
