There is simply no reason for the political Right to continue its embrace of Steve Bannon. The former Breitbart chief, who served a brief stint in President Donald Trump’s White House in 2017, has demonstrated levels of corruption and misjudgment that should end his political ambitions and influence within the Republican Party.
Revelations regarding the latest tranche of so-called “Epstein files” are still surfacing, but the contents have been damaging for wealthy and powerful politicians and business leaders both in the United States and abroad. Not all alleged friends of Epstein were implicated. Despite the Left’s hopes to the contrary, Trump has emerged largely unscathed as documents show the president supported the prosecution of his onetime acquaintance Jeffrey Epstein. “Thank goodness you’re stopping him, everyone has known he’s been doing this,” Trump allegedly told the Palm Beach Police chief. Trump also described Epstein’s girlfriend and accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, as an “operative” who is “evil.”
