Stephen Bannon is going back on the radio
Stephen Bannon is coming back to the airwaves.
President Trump's former chief strategist will return to SiriusXM's Patriot Channel starting Tuesday, The New York Times reports, rejoining the show he had hosted before joining Trump's election effort last year. Bannon has also resumed his post as chairman of Breitbart News since leaving the White House in August.
Since his departure from the White House, Bannon has vowed to start a war against "establishment" Republicans and has made very public threats to support primary challenges against many GOP lawmakers. As part of that war, Bannon will now lead Breitbart's 2018 midterm election coverage on the SiriusXM channel. The conservative news network additionally unveiled several new live radio programs and touted Sebastian Gorka, a controversial former Trump aide, as one of the "political thought leaders" who would feature prominently in 2018 programming.
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SiriusXM Vice President Dave Gorab said in a statement that Bannon had cultivated a "lasting bond" with his audience, one that would be resumed with his return. "During the 2016 campaign, Steve empowered SiriusXM Patriot listeners to have a voice and be part of the electoral process," Gorab said.
During his previous stint on SiriusXM, Bannon had featured guests like controversial former Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos, then-candidate Donald Trump, and then-Alabama senator Jeff Sessions.
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Kelly O'Meara Morales is a staff writer at The Week. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and studied Middle Eastern history and nonfiction writing amongst other esoteric subjects. When not compulsively checking Twitter, he writes and records music, subsists on tacos, and watches basketball.
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