Steve Bannon

Stephen Kevin Bannon shortly named as Steve Bannon is an American media executive, political strategist, and a former investment banker. Moreover, he is also a former executive chairman of Breitbart News. He served as the White House’s chief strategist in the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump during the first seven months of Trump’s term. Steve also served on the board of Cambridge Analytica, the data-analytics firm involved in the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal. He was the vice president of Goldman Sachs and was the co-founder of Breitbart News. He has also executive produced many films in Hollywood. He was called a mastermind for helping Trump to get a shock win the 2016 Presidential election. In January 2018, Bannon was disavowed by Trump for critical comments reported in the book Fire and Fury and left Breitbart. Recently, he was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of money laundering and fraud related to his involvement with the “We Build the Wall” project as of August 2020.

In the “We Build the Wall” Campaign, Steve Bannon was arrested and charged with fraud.

He was arrested on a $35 million, 150-foot yacht belonging to one of his business partners, the fugitive Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui, at 7:15 a.m. on August 20th, according to law enforcement officials. The arrest of Steve Bannon was linked to a group named “We Build the Wall.” He and three others are accused of conspiring to use building funds to pay for personal expenses. He was accused of defrauding contributors to a private fund-raising campaign named “We Build the Wall,” which was meant to support President Trump’s flagship border-security initiative. According to a federal indictment unsealed in Manhattan, he conspired with a disabled Air Force veteran and a Florida venture capitalist to defraud hundreds of thousands of donors by falsely pledging that their money will be used to construct new parts of the wall. Prosecutors claim Bannon used approximately $1 million of the $25 million raised for personal expenses. Mr. Trump tried to distance himself from Mr. Bannon and the fund-raising campaign shortly after the charges were revealed, though he also showed support for his former advisor. In the Oval Office, Mr. Trump told reporters, “I feel very badly.” “It’s been a long time since I’ve had to deal with him.” The president initially said he had no knowledge of the multibillion-dollar We Build the Wall campaign, but soon backtracked. Mr. Trump said, “I don’t like that project.” “I was under the impression it was being done for show.” He called privately financing the border wall “inappropriate.” At an event in 2019, Donald Jr. (one of Trump’s sons) openly endorsed the “We Build the Wall” campaign, calling it “private business at its finest.”

Known For

Being a former executive chairman of Breitbart News and an American media executive, politician, strategist, and former investment banker.

Being President Trump’s former chief strategist.

What is Steve Bannon’s birthplace?

Steve Bannon was born on November 27, 1953, in Norfolk, Virginia, United States. Stephen Kevin Bannon is his full name and birth name. Doris (née Herr), a homemaker, and Martin J. Bannon Jr., an AT&T telephone lineman and middle manager, were his parents when he was born. He grew up in a pro-Kennedy and pro-union Democratic working-class household. He is of mixed race and is of American nationality. He is of Irish and German heritage. His ethnicity is White. His zodiac sign is Scorpio, and he follows the Catholic faith. In the year 2019, he turned 66 years old.

What college did Steve Bannon attend?

Steve Bannon received his education at Benedictine College Preparatory, a private, Catholic military high school in Richmond, Virginia, where he graduated in 1971. He then transferred to Virginia Tech, where he was president of the student government association. He earned a bachelor’s degree in urban design from Virginia Tech’s College of Architecture and Urban Studies in 1976. In 1983, he graduated from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service with a master’s degree in national security studies. In 1985, he graduated with honors from Harvard Business School with a Master of Business Administration degree.

What does Steve Bannon do for a living?

Steve first served in the United States Navy for seven years, from the 1970s to the 1980s, as a surface warfare officer on the destroyer USS Paul F. Foster in the Pacific Fleet, and then as a special assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations at the Pentagon.

He was sent to the Persian Gulf in 1980 to help with Operation Eagle Claw during the Iran hostage crisis, but the mission failed, making him a political turning point.

At the time of his discharge from the Military, he was a lieutenant (O-3) in the Navy.
Following that, he worked for two years as an investment banker in Goldman Sachs’ Mergers and Acquisitions Department.

In 1990, he and several Goldman Sachs colleagues founded Bannon & Co., a boutique investment bank specializing in media.

In the year 1993, he also became the acting director of the earth science research project Biosphere 2 in Oracle, Arizona.

 

In 1990, he joined the entertainment and media industry as an executive producer in Hollywood, producing 18 films ranging from Sean Penn’s drama The Indian Runner (1991) to Julie Taymor’s film Titus (1999).

After that, he made a documentary called In the Face of Evil about Ronald Reagan (2004).

He also helped finance and produce a number of films, including Fire from the Heartland: The Awakening of the Conservative Woman (2010), The Undefeated (2011), and Occupy Unmasked (2012).

He was the chair and CEO of Affinity Media from 2007 to 2011.

In the year 2007, he also wrote an eight-page treatment for a new documentary titled Destroying the Great Satan: The Rise of Islamic Fascism (sic) in America.

He also spoke at the Liberty Restoration Foundation in Orlando, Florida, about the 2008 economic downturn, the Troubled Assets Relief Program, and their effect on the Tea Party movement’s roots, as well as his films Generation Zero (2010) and The Unbeaten (2011) in 2011.

He was ranked No. 19 on Mediaite’s “25 Most Influential in Political News Media 2015” list in 2015.

On the SiriusXM Patriot satellite radio station, he also hosted a radio show (Breitbart News Daily).

He was one of the initial board members of Breitbart News, a right-wing news, opinion, and commentary website. In March 2012, he was named executive chair of Breitbart News LLC, the parent company of Breitbart News.

On August 17, 2016, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

On the 13th of November, following Donald Trump’s election to the presidency, he was appointed chief strategist and senior advisor to the President-elect.

On November 18th, in his first interview since the 2016 presidential election that was not published by Breitbart Media, he answered some of the criticisms levied at him, stating, “Dick Cheney claims that darkness is advantageous. Satan. Darth Vader. That is the essence of strength. It just helps us when they make a mistake. When they have no idea who we are or what we’re up to.”

In late November, Donald Trump reacted to the controversy surrounding his nomination by saying, “Steve Bannon is someone I’ve known for a long time. I wouldn’t even consider recruiting him if I felt he was racist, alt-right, or any of the other words we might use to describe him.”

The Senate Intelligence Committee is conducting a “wide-ranging” investigation into Bannon’s actions during the campaign, including any information he might have had about any communications between Russia and two campaign advisors, George Papadopoulos and Carter Page, as well as his role with Cambridge Analytica, according to Reuters on October 31, 2018.

Later, Trump named him as his Chief Strategist, a newly developed position that made him a presidential advisor with authority nearly equal to that of the Chief of Staff.

He and Stephen Miller were both involved in the formation of Executive Order 13769, which prohibited travel and immigration to the United States for citizens from seven countries, halted the United States Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) for 120 days, and barred Syrians from entering the country indefinitely.

In February 2017, he was also featured on the cover of “Time,” where he was dubbed “the Great Manipulator.”
In early April 2017, in a reorganization led by US National Security Advisor H. R. McMaster, whom Bannon had helped appoint, he was removed from his NSC post.

On August 18, 2017, his time at the White House came to an end.

Trump and Bannon stayed in daily touch, according to the Washington Post in October 2017.

After leaving the White House, he announced his intention to become “the global infrastructure for the global populist movement,” and toured Europe, speaking at events with different far-right political parties in the hopes of creating a network of right-wing populist-nationalist parties aspiring to power.

Bannon and Trump were separated in January 2018, following the release of Michael Wolff’s book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, which attributed several divisive and offensive comments to Bannon.

According to the book, Bannon said Ivanka Trump was “as stupid as a stone,” that the meeting between Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort, and Russian agents was “treasonous,” and that Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller would make Donald Trump Jr. “crack like an egg on live television.”

In March 2019, Commerce Department Secretary Wilbur Ross was asked by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform about Bannon’s discussions about adding a citizenship issue to the 2020 census surveys.

The United States Supreme Court heard arguments on April 23, 2019, regarding appeals of three circuit courts’ rejections of the proposed inclusion of the survey issue.

He and Guo raised hundreds of millions of dollars in a private offering for GTV Media Group in early 2020.
He and Guo took part in the declaration of a “New Federal State of China” on June 3, 2020. (also called “Federal State of New China”).

In November 2019, he testified in Roger Stone’s federal criminal trial.

He testified that Stone was Wikileaks’ point of contact for the Trump campaign, and his testimony was crucial in proving Stone’s deception to Congress.

President Trump commuted his federal prison term on July 10, 2020.

When asked for a statement after Bannon was arrested on August 20, 2020, Stone said, “Karma is a scumbag. But I’m hoping for the best for him.”

In 2020, he launched the “War Room: Pandemic” podcast, which he broadcast from his Capitol Hill townhouse; Bannon told friends that Trump “told others that he watches the show and that the president was familiar enough with it to cite relevant interviews he had seen when the two men talked this summer.”

A federal grand jury indictment was unsealed on August 20, 2020, charging him and three others with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering.

Onboard Guo Wengui’s luxury yacht Lady May, he was arrested by US Postal Inspectors off the coast of Connecticut; later that day, he pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Steve Bannon’s Wife: Who Is She?

Steve Bannon is a husband and father. He’s been married three times and divorced each time. He married Cathleen Suzanne Houff first. In the year 1988, Cathleen gave birth to a daughter named Maureen. Later, the couple split for reasons that have yet to be identified. Following that, he married Mary Louise Piccard, a former investment banker, for the second time in April 1995. Three days after the wedding, their twin daughters were born. After Piccard accused Bannon of domestic assault, his wife, Mary, filed for divorce in 1997, and he was charged with misdemeanor domestic violence, battery, and dissuading a witness in early January 1996. He then married Diane Clohesy for the third time; they married in 2006 and divorced in 2009. They are not the parents of any children. He seems to be living a single life at the moment, since there have been no reports of her dating/affairs/relationships with anyone since his divorce from his wife. He is living a quiet life as a single man with no distractions. In terms of sexual orientation, he is neither gay nor heterosexual.

How much is Steve Bannon’s Net Worth?

Steve Bannon is a media executive, political strategist, former investment banker, and the former executive chairman of Breitbart News. The net worth of Steve is estimated to have $50 Million as of 2020. He has earned a fortune from his career as being media executive and political strategist with many other professionals. The financial disclosure showed that Steve Bannon earned several hundred thousand dollars in 2016 as a consultant for various conservative media organizations as of 2017. Additionally, his consulting firm Bannon Strategic Advisors Inc was valued between $5 million and $25 million and that he personally held bank accounts with as much as $2.25 million and real estate rental property worth as much as $10.5 million. Recently on 20th August, he was arrested on a 150-foot yacht off the coast of Connecticut by US Postal Inspectors. Bannon’s arrest was connected to a charity called “We Build the Wall”. The yacht Bannon was arrested on is owned by a Chinese billionaire named Guo Wengui who is one of China’s most-wanted fugitives. Bannon and Wengui are allegedly the two key executives behind GTV which raised $300 million in a private offering in spring 2020. There is no doubt in the mind of his followers that he is earning a considerable amount of salary from his present work. Without a doubt, he is living a lavish and luxurious lifestyle. He owns expensive cars like Range Rover, Jaguar, and Ford.

How tall is Steve Bannon?

Being at the sixties, Steve Bannon still looks very young and handsome as well. He has got a tall height of 181 cm or 5 ft 11 in. His balanced weight consists of 86 Kg or 190 lbs. His body build is Average. Overall, he has got a healthy body with perfect body measurements. His hair color is salt and pepper and his eye color is brown.

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