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Donald Trump pardons former strategist Steve Bannon
January 20, 2021 By Faith Matters

Donald Trump pardons former strategist Steve Bannon

US President Donald Trump has pardoned former chief strategist Steve Bannon as part of a late flurry of clemency action benefiting nearly 150 people. The pardons and commutations for 143 people, including Bannon, were announced after midnight on Wednesday in the final hours of Trump’s White House term. A statement from the White House said: […]

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Steve Bannon drafting curriculum for right-wing Catholic institute in Italy
September 19, 2018 By Faith Matters

Steve Bannon drafting curriculum for right-wing Catholic institute in Italy

Former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon is helping to craft the curriculum for a leadership course at a right-wing Roman Catholic institute in Italy, stepping up his efforts to influence conservative thinking in the church. Benjamin Harnwell, director of the Dignitatis Humanae Institute based in a mountaintop monastery not far from Rome, told Reuters […]

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Germany: Far-Right leader sceptical of Bannon’s anti-EU push
August 13, 2018 By Faith Matters

Germany: Far-Right leader sceptical of Bannon’s anti-EU push

A leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has poured cold water on plans by Steve Bannon, U.S. President Donald Trump’s former political strategist, to forge a wide populist alliance to undermine the European Union. “We’re not in America,” Alexander Gauland, one of two co-leaders of the anti-immigrant party, told the Funke Mediengruppe […]

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