25 August, 2017
On Friday, mere hours after being fired by Trump, Bannon returned to Breitbart as executive chairman.
"In the emails, Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow pledged that he and several other top editors would do Bannon's "dirty work" against White House aides", CNN reports. Marlow even said he could have Ivanka and Kushner out the White House "by the end of the year" and according to a CNN article, shared an alleged personal smear about their private lives with the impostor, "perhaps an indication of how low the website is willing to go to achieve its agenda". Then Marlow responded with an especially disparaging comment about Ivanka and Kushner: "Best conspiracy on the whole internet is Jared is an actual cuckhold", suggesting Ivanka was literally engaging in the kind of infidelity that has become an obsession (verging on a verbal tic) for the far-right.
Fake Bannon responded by showing his approval of a Breitbart story suggesting Ivanka Trump "pushed out" Bannon. "So do you think you'll have them packed and shipping out before Christmas?"
Among the particular opponents he has in his sights, said Mr Bannon, seated in a dining-room decorated with Christian iconography and political mementos, are congressional Republicans ("Mitch McConnell, I'm going to light him up"), China ("Let's go screw up One Belt One Road") and "the elites in Silicon Valley and Wall Street-they're a bunch of globalists who have forgotten their fellow Americans". "When the best looking dude in my high school (who went on to play for the Yankees) defended R Kelly pissing on chicks to me, I knew certain people at a certain stature played by different rules. If they are semi normal, then yes, they out by end of year". "Did five stories on globalist takeover positioning you as only hope to stop it". "Boyle, Raheem, me, Tony have been waiting for this", Marlow says, referring to other staff at Breitbart. In one email chain he posed as the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and invited White House staffers to a party.
In an interview with the BBC, the British man behind the fake emails said, "I don't much care for the Trump administration or Breitbart". "If [Trump's aides] are left to their own devices, they would exchange [amnesty] for a few trinkets", a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform told Breitbart reporter Neil Munro, who added that such a move would be "violating Trump's campaign promise before the 2018 and 2020 elections".
Immediately after Bannon's return, Breitbart started to prepare stories critical of people in the Trump White House, a person at the website told CNN on Friday. "The least effective way to pass an agenda is to threaten the president's party in Congress".
Bannon, for his part, has strongly hinted at a war with members of the White House.
