Stephen Bannon claims Trump's border crackdown is actually 'anti-racist'

Stephen Bannon.
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Former Breitbart executive Stephen Bannon has not forgotten the tools of the trade — he still has a penchant for spinning things.

President Trump's former chief strategist in an interview with BBC said that the White House's crackdown on immigration at the southern border is actually anything but racist, no matter what critics say.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.