ADVERTISEMENTNEW YORK ― When Donald Trump descended the escalator at Trump Tower on June 16, 2015 and launched into a campaign kickoff speech that included railing against Mexico for supposedly sending drug dealers and “rapists” over the border, Steve Bannon saw a Breitbart News reader at the podium. “That speech really talked about the themes that have been on Breitbart,” Bannon told The Huffington Post last month during the Republican convention in Cleveland. “So wait, Breitbart is now running the Trump campaign when all this time we thought Trump was running Breitbart,” tweeted Dan Pfeiffer, former Obama White House communications director. Fields, who now writes for HuffPost, quit Breitbart News after the incident, as did several staffers who believed the site was siding with the Trump campaign. Former Breitbart News spokesman Kurt BardellaHowever, Breitbart News editor-in-chief Alex Marlow pushed back against Bardella’s claim that Bannon was seeking a job.

Source: Huffington Post August 17, 2016 21:00 UTC