Opinion: The Ghost Advising Donald Trump’s Presidency
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I once pressed https://www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon-reveals-theres-a-plan-for-third-donald-trump-term/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" title="https://www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon-reveals-theres-a-plan-for-third-donald-trump-term/">Steve Bannon about Trump’s intelligence.
He said, “He’s as smart as any guy who’s spent twenty years listening to Lou Dobbs.” As one of cable’s first business anchors, correspondents, and commentators, he developed a variety of stances: birtherism, anti-immigration, and the simple fix of putting https://www.thedailybeast.com/bitter-donald-trump-strikes-out-at-supreme-court-with-petty-tariff-move/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" title="https://www.thedailybeast.com/bitter-donald-trump-strikes-out-at-supreme-court-with-petty-tariff-move/">tariffs on everything.
The underpinnings of these views were not facts, study, but ratings.
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