(2016-08-22) Trump New Campaign Chief Created An Online Haven For White Nationalists

How Donald Trump’s New Campaign Chief Created an Online Haven for White Nationalists. Trump has embraced the core readership of Breitbart News. "We're the platform for the alt-right," Steve Bannon told me proudly when I interviewed him at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in July.

Trump's new campaign chief denies that the alt-right is inherently racist. He describes its ideology as "nationalist," though not necessarily white nationalist.

During our interview, Bannon took credit for fomenting "this populist nationalist movement" long before Trump came on the scene. He credited Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.)—a Trump endorser and confidant who has suggested that civil rights advocacy groups were "un-American" and "Communist-inspired"—with laying the movement's groundwork.