President Donald Trump has made it abundantly clear he is no fan of the media, but his chief White House strategist, Steve Bannon, took the war on the press a step further in an interview published by The New York Times on Thursday. "The elite media got it dead wrong, 100 percent dead wrong," Bannon, the former executive chair of Breitbart News, said of the election, dubbing it "a humiliating defeat that they will never wash away, that will always be there."
Bannon also claimed that the media is "the opposition party" of the new administration:
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