Bannon was an officer in the United States Navy for seven years in the late 1970s and early 1980s. After his military service, he worked for two years at Goldman Sachs as an investment banker. He became an executive producer in Hollywood, and produced 18 films between 1991 and 2016. In 2007, he co-founded Breitbart News, a far-right website which he described in 2016 as ‘the platform for the alt-right’ In 2016, Bannon became the chief executive officer of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and was appointed Chief Strategist and Senior Counselor to the President following Trump’s election. In January 2018, Bannon was disavowed by Trump for critical comments reported in the book Fire and Fury, and left Breitbart. In August 2020
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Bannon was an officer in the United States Navy for seven years in the late 1970s and early 1980s. After his military service, he worked for two years at Goldman Sachs as an investment banker. He became an executive producer in Hollywood, and produced 18 films between 1991 and 2016. In 2007, he co-founded Breitbart News, a far-right website which he described in 2016 as \”the platform for the alt-right\”. In 2016, Bannon became the chief executive officer of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and was appointed Chief Strategist and Senior Counselor to the President following Trump’s election. In January 2018, Bannon was disavowed by Trump for critical comments reported in the book Fire and Fury, and left Breitbart. In August 2020, Bannon and three others were charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and money laundering in connection to the We Build the Wall campaign. He has pleaded not guilty and will stand trial in May 2021. In November 2020, his Twitter account was permanently suspended after he suggested that Anthony Fauci and FBI Director Christopher Wray should be beheaded. He grew up in a working class family which was pro-Kennedy and pro-union Democrat. He is of Irish, and some German, descent. Much of his mother’s side of the family settled in the Baltimore area, a hotspot for German arrivals to America throughout the 19th Century. He was born November 27, 1953 in Norfolk, Virginia, to Doris, a homemaker, and Martin J. Bannon Jr., who worked as an AT&T telephone lineman and as a middle manager.
He graduated from Virginia Tech College of Architecture and Urban Studies in 1976, with a bachelor’s degree in urban planning. In 1985, Bannon earned a Master of Business Administration degree with honors from Harvard Business School. In 1987, he relocated from New York to Los Angeles to assist in their expanding presence in their entertainment industry. He held the title of vice president of their Mergers and Acquisitions Department and left with their title of their president of Mergers & Acquisitions. In 2009, he became the executive chairman of Breitbart News. After leaving the White House, Bannon opposed the Republican Party establishment and supported insurgent candidates in Republican primary elections. He also supported many national populist conservative political movements around the world, including creating a network of far-left groups in Europe. In 2012, he joined the board of the now-defunct data-analytics firm Cambridge Analytica. In 2013, he was named the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2014, he resigned from his position at CSIS to become the CEO of a think tank called the Centre for Strategic & International Studies at the California Institute of Technology (CSI). In 2015, he left CSI to focus on his new role at the libertarian think tank, the Cato Institute. In March 2016, he announced that he would be leaving the CSI the following month.
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