Bannon and Breitbart’s Nazi Ties
Milo Yiannopoulos uses “Kristall” (in reference to Kristallnacht) and “LongKnives1290” (in reference to The Night of the Long Knives and the year King Edward I expelled the Jews from England) as his passwords. He has to be reminded repeatedly by a generally sympathetic editor-in-chief, Alex Marlow, not to “flirt with okay-ing Nazi memes,” do podcasts with white supremacists, or make Holocaust-oven jokes. He does karaoke while Richard Spencer and other white supremacists give him the Nazi salute. He considers Devin Saucier to be one of his very best friends, a man so extreme that even Mike Cernovich has tried to disassociate from him.
The Mercer family is completely behind this ideology and so is Steve Bannon. That’s clear from the email threads that BuzzFeed obtained. Together, they turned Milo into a sensation. And when they had to fire him for making comments sympathetic to pedophilia, that didn’t prevent them for quietly supporting him and helping him plan for the next phase of his career:
After firing Yiannopoulos, [Alex] Marlow accompanied him to the Mercers’ Palm Beach home to discuss a new venture: MILO INC. On February 27, not quite two weeks after the scandal erupted, Yiannopoulos received an email from a woman who described herself as “Robert Mercer’s accountant.” “We will be sending a wire payment today,” she wrote. Later that day, in an email to the accountant and Robert Mercer, Yiannopoulos personally thanked his patron. And as Yiannopoulos prepared to publish his book, he stayed close enough to Rebekah Mercer to ask her by text for a recommendation when he needed a periodontist in New York.
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