File 020440
Email Chain: Steve Bannon's The Movement Initiative in Europe (File 020440)
Email correspondence from July 2018 discussing Steve Bannon's plans to establish 'The Movement,' a non-profit foundation aimed at coordinating European populist-right political movements ahead of the 2019 European Parliament elections.
Summary
Benjamin Harnwell forwards to Steve Bannon an Italian newspaper article from La Repubblica about Bannon's arrival in Europe to launch 'The Movement,' a strategic initiative designed to coordinate right-wing populist parties including those led by Matteo Salvini, Viktor Orban, and Marine Le Pen. The article discusses Bannon's strategy to position himself as a counterweight to George Soros's influence in Europe, drawing comparisons to his previous work with Cambridge Analytica and Breitbart. The email chain includes a photo attachment sent by Maria Luisa, with the content obscured in the OCR excerpt.
From:Sent:To:Subject:Steve Bannon [7/22/2018 11:25:42 PMjeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]Fwd: Re:Importance: HighTranslation to followBegin forwarded message:From: Benjamin Harnwell <Date: July 22, 2018 at 4:32:45 PM EDTTo: Steve BannonSubject: Re:It was that article in La Repubblica which you asked to be translatedIn Sacratissimo Corde Iesu et Purissimo Corde Mariae et Castissimo*******Benjamin HarnwellFounder and President of the Board of TrusteesDignitatis Humanae InstituteCell:•Office:Istituto Dignitatis Humanae44 Via delle FornaciRoma 00165ITALY@ben harnwellwww.dignitatishumanae.comII giorno 22 lug 2018, alle ore 22:21, Steve BannonWhere is thisthis afternoon.Corde Ioseph.> ha scritto:HOUSE OVERSIGHT 020440On Jul 22, 2018, at 4:02 PM, Benjamin Harnwell < > wrote: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 alreadymet, 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 nowHOUSE OVERSIGHT 020441paraphrasing 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 InstituteCell:Office:-Istituto 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 -<PHOTO-2018-07-22-10-02-17.jpg>Sent from my iPhone>, Preate Alexandra <IMMI>HOUSE OVERSIGHT 020442