Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid’s spokesman said Sunday that President-elect Donald Trump has ensured “White supremacists will be represented at the highest levels” in the White House now that Trump has appointed former Breitbart executive chairman Steve Bannon to a top role.
“President-elect Trump’s choice of Steve Bannon as his top aide signals that White Supremacists will be represented at the highest levels in Trump’s White House,” Reid spokesman Adam Jentleson said Sunday.
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Reid, D-Nev., has been an outspoken critic of Trump since his election Tuesday. On Friday Reid called Trump “a sexual predator who lost the popular vote.”
Jentleson called Bannon “one of the foremost peddlers of White Supremacist themes and rhetoric,” and said “it is easy to see why the KKK views Trump as their champion,” given his choice of Bannon, who Trump has tapped to serve as chief White House strategist.
“Sworn testimony in a court case alleged that Bannon committed violent domestic abuse and stated that he ‘didn’t want the girls [his children] going to school with Jews,'” Jentleson said.
Jentleson’s statement cited a few Breitbart headlines, including this one: “Birth control makes women unattractive and crazy.”
Reid has only a few weeks left to attack Trump from his powerful Senate perch. He’ll retire at the end of the year.
“It is disappointing that Harry Reid’s career has come to a deafening whimper as he continues to peddle falsehoods and complete lies in order to discredit the will of the American people, Trump transition team spokesman Jason Miller told the Washington Examiner. “President-elect Trump represents real change and a new era of government that works for the people, not the same, tired politics-as-usual nature of Washington that insiders like Senator Reid helped encourage throughout his career.”
