Stephen K. Bannon, chief strategist to President Trump, at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., in late 2016. “Those out of the room are out of the deal,” Bannon, now 63, said in an interview, recalling the 1998 meeting. He attended Harvard Business School, where he met recruiters from the investment banking firm of Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs took the side of companies under attack from corporate raiders and leveraged buyout firms. He said he had far exceeded whatever he was likely to have earned by staying with Goldman Sachs.

Source: Washington Post March 31, 2017 23:52 UTC