File 019302
Email Chain: Steve Bannon's Movement and European Populist Alliance Strategy (File 019302)
Email correspondence from July 2018 between Steve Bannon and Benjamin Harnwell regarding Bannon's establishment of 'The Movement,' a non-profit foundation aimed at coordinating right-wing populist leaders across Europe for the 2019 elections.
Summary
Benjamin Harnwell forwards an article to Steve Bannon discussing Bannon's plans to launch 'The Movement' in Brussels as a populist think tank and coordination hub for right-wing European leaders including Salvini, Orban, and Le Pen. The correspondence details Bannon's strategy to create a 'super group' to influence the 2019 European Parliament elections, position himself as coordinator of a populist international movement, and counter George Soros's influence. The email includes Harnwell's contact information from the Dignitatis Humanae Institute and references unclear image attachments.
From: Steve BannonSent: 7/22/2018 11:27:26 PMTo: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]Subject: Fw:Importance: HighSent via BlackBerry by AT&TFrom: Benjamin HarnwellDate: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 22:01:54 +0200To: Steve Bannon<_Subject: Re:Bannon the European: He's opening the populist fort in BrusselsThe former Trump strategist arrives in Europe with "The Movement". Objective: an alliance betweenright-wing leaders, from Salvini to Orban in view of the 2019 electionsNEW YORK. The invasion of Europe has begun. Steve Bannon, 65, the American far-right guru who wasDonald Trump's right-hand man in the White House — but let go last summer following the racistviolence in Charlottesville — is preparing to march on Brussels. Launching, he told the Daily Beasthimself, a new non-profit foundation called The Movement, (II Movimento), right in the heart of Europeand its institutions. Through which he hopes to coordinate the populist right in view of the Europeanelections which will be held in spring 2019.Objective: to compete with George Soros, the American billionaire of Hungarian origin, benefactor of theDemocratic party, who since 1984 with his Open Society has spent at least $32 billion in support ofNGOs dealing with human rights. And for this he became the bogeyman of the populist right, accused ofplots of all kinds: including that of wanting to replace Italians with immigrants in order to have labour atlow cost. A mantra repeated in the past on Twitter also by the current Minister of the Interior MatteoSalvini.The ambition of Steve Bannon, former director of the alt-right American site Breitbart — which in theEuropean campaign preceded him since the platform had already opened bureaux in London and Rome— is therefore to become the coordinator of the one great "populist international" of which he has longsince been dreaming.The Movement, in fact, intends to function as an extreme right-wing think tank: a source of strategicadvice to channel the not-so-politically structured discontent of the most extreme European movements.Analysing data and giving strategic advice. But also by raising funds and channeling funding.The aim is to create a populist alliance, a sort of "super group" that if victorious can conquer up to a thirdof the European Parliament in the elections next May.Indeed — putting the common policy of the Old Continent in the hands of Bannon and his own. TheAmerican strategist is very attached to the Freedom Caucus — the extreme right of the US Congress —and in 2014 he was at the top of the Cambridge Analytica company, which in 2016 used data stolen fromFacebook to try to influence the presidential election from which Donald Trump emerged victor. It is nota mystery that for a long time he courts nationalists of the right from East to West. And he has alreadyHOUSE OVERSIGHT 019302met, among others, the Hungarian Orban, the French Marine Le Pen and the former leader of the Britishseparatists Nigel Farage. The latter reappeared, coincidentally, on Friday in Pennsylvania, USA, to afundraiser in favor of the Republican congressman Lou Barletta. Without forgetting the Italians of Legaand 5 stars. Of them, he said: "If it works in Italy, we can import the model anywhere".The Movement, which for now will count on a staff of 10 people, will be fully operational in 2019. Inshort, after the American midterm elections, where Bannon is fighting to influence the primariessupporting candidates potentially able to undermine the prospects of Republican establishment. But in thefuture the former spin doctor says he wants to spend more and more time in Europe. Also because therelationships with Trump have worsened after the revelations he made to Michael Wolff and published inthe scandal book "Fire and Fury". "Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Paradise," Bannon says nowparaphrasing the Satan of one of his favorite books, John Milton's Lost Paradise. Hell in this case wouldbe the dear old Europe and its democratic values. The "army of darkness" is already among us.In Sacratissimo Corde Iesu et Purissimo Corde Mariae et Castissimo Corde Ioseph.*******Benjamin HarnwellFounder and President of the Board of TrusteesDignitatis Humanae InstituteIstituto Dignitatis Humanae44 Via delle FornaciRoma 00165ITALY@ben harnwellwww.dignitatishumanae.comII giorno 22 lug 2018, alle ore 15:38, Steve Bannon < > ha scritto:What does this say???Begin forwarded message:From: Maria Luisa <Date: July 22, 2018 at 9:11:58 AM EDTTo: Steve Bannon <>, Preate Alexandra <HOUSE OVERSIGHT 019303<PHOTO-2018-07-22-10-02-17.jpg>Sent from my iPhoneHOUSE OVERSIGHT 019304