The enemy of the Pope that Donald Trump forgave before leaving

On his last day in office, the president Donald J. Trump granted forgiveness to 73 people and commuted other people’s sentences 70. In the squad, in addition to being condemned for common crimes, several of its allies are prosecuted for corruption. Between them Steve bannon, political strategist of the new right, who served as jcampaign manager of the tycoon in 2016.

In August 2020, Bannon was arrested and prosecuted for defrauding hundreds of thousands of people who contributed $ 25 million to your campaign “We are building the wall” (We are building the wall). A judge granted him bail for 5 million USD. Henceforth, the presidential pardon leaves him free from any guilt and any accusation. A curious paradox for a leader of the new right who has made the fight against political corruption one of his favorite campaign themes.

In 2017After leaving the White House, Bannon moved to Europe to collaborate with various European right-wing and far-right political movements. These include the Front National de France, Fidesz from Hungary, the League of Northern Italy and VOX from Spain, among others. In Brazil, he participated as a strategist in Jair Bolsonaro’s election campaign.

The causes of those pardoned by Trump: tax evasion, fraud, smuggling and corruption

He was the main investor in data consulting Cambridge Analytica, who accessed the data of 50 million Facebook users to influence their votes for Donald Trump and the Brexi in Britain. He is basically a great modern communication strategist. You have discovered the power of fake news and he manipulates them like no one else to influence political campaigns. It is defined as nationalist populist, anti-elite globalistas, but defender of Free market. Anti Hispanic and Muslim immigration. Anti-gender, anti-abortion, anti LGBT policies. Firm defender of “economic war” with China.

“He dad Francisco he is the enemy: go attack him head-on ”, was the suggestion of Steve Bannon to the leader of the Italian Northern League, Matteo salvini, during a meeting in Washington in 2016. The contents of the meeting were revealed by the British newspaper The Guardian in April 2019.

Salvini took the gauntlet and was very critical of Francisco, especially for his calls to open the doors to immigrants who were drowning in the Mediterranean. He even showed up with a T-shirt with the inscription: “Benedict is my Pope”, in the line of conservative religious who say they do not know Francis.

“You can go to Europe and populism is spreading and the Pope is so wrong,” Bannon said in an interview with NBC. His confrontation with Francisco has several fronts. In the United States, he encouraged and funded the current of opposition to the Pope led by certain cardinals such as Raymond Burke and the archbishop Carlo Maria Viganó, who in a letter called for the resignation of the Pope. Viganó issued another letter, this time staunch support for Donald Trump in the face of “the attack he is receiving from the Children of Darkness and” elites of the deep state.

Bannon prisoner, his free ideas

Burke is, for his part, a mentor of the To taste, the American far right linked to energy multinationals and anti-immigrant associations. For Burke, there is a Church and an anti-Church, the latter represented by the current Pope, whom he accuses of being “heretical”.

The last battle taking place today is for the rental of an old medieval monastery 110 kilometers from Rome, rented in the name of the Dignitatits des organizations (DHI), by a leader of Bannon to create his “gladiator school”, a sort of “populist college or university” in the heart of Europe.

Until today, Steve Bannon’s only public contact with Argentine politics has been Cynthia Hotton, the unfortunate vice-candidate of Juan José Gómez Centurion, who met Bannon, pictured between the two, in Washington, DC, July 2019.

With 74 million votes cast in the election, Donald Trump is a long way from “going home” and Bannon could help him build a new political party, as is assumed.

Wall, illusionism and xenophobia

Bannon’s forgiveness is also red meat for the far right, similar to those who came before him for the sheriff Joe Arpaio and Dinesh D’Souza. Military war criminals, Blackwater mercenaries and others. They seem designed to excite Trump’s base, which is no small feat when he speculates on the formation of a new political party, ”The New York Times wrote.

With grace, Trump recovers several political operators, including Bannon who will surely travel the world again encouraging the leaders of the new right, which nothing suggests that he will disappear due to the defeat of Trump. As long as progressive governments continue to make mistakes in their policies, “anti-globalism” will continue to attract adherents.

* Author of Sauvé par Francisco and La Lealtad-Los montoneros who stayed with Peron ”.