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Extraction Summary
6
People
9
Organizations
6
Locations
2
Events
3
Relationships
5
Quotes
Document Information
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Email thread / forwarded news article
File Size:
2.17 MB
Summary
An email thread from July 2018 involving Steve Bannon and Benjamin Harnwell. Harnwell sends Bannon a text (likely a translated news article) detailing Bannon's plans to launch a foundation called 'The Movement' in Brussels to unite European right-wing populists against George Soros ahead of the 2019 elections. Bannon replies to the thread with the phrase '9th circle,' likely a reference to Dante's Inferno.
People (6)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Steve Bannon | Sender/Recipient/Subject |
Former Trump strategist, establishing 'The Movement' in Brussels.
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| Benjamin Harnwell | Sender |
Sent the article text to Steve Bannon.
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| Donald Trump | Former US President |
Mentioned as Bannon's former boss and victor of 2016 election.
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| Matteo Salvini | Italian Minister of the Interior |
Mentioned as a right-wing leader and ally.
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| Viktor Orbán | Right-wing leader |
Mentioned as a potential ally in the alliance.
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| George Soros | Billionaire/Benefactor |
Described as the competitor/target of Bannon's Movement.
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Organizations (9)
| Name | Type | Context |
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| The Movement (Il Movimento) |
Non-profit foundation launched by Bannon in Brussels.
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| Open Society |
George Soros's foundation.
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| Daily Beast |
Media outlet Bannon spoke to.
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| Breitbart |
Alt-right site formerly directed by Bannon.
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| Cambridge Analytica |
Data company Bannon led in 2014.
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Source of data used by Cambridge Analytica.
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| Freedom Caucus |
Extreme right group of US Congress.
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| Democratic Party |
US political party supported by Soros.
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| AT&T |
Service provider for BlackBerry.
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Timeline (2 events)
Summer 2017
Bannon leaving the White House following Charlottesville violence
Washington D.C. / Charlottesville
Locations (6)
| Location | Context |
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Location where Bannon is opening 'The Movement'.
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Dateline of the article.
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Site of racist violence mentioned in context of Bannon leaving White House.
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Location of Breitbart bureau.
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Location of Breitbart bureau.
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General region of operation.
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Relationships (3)
Email correspondence sharing press coverage.
Article mentions Bannon was Trump's right-hand man.
Article states Bannon's objective is to compete with Soros.
Key Quotes (5)
"9th circle"Source
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"The invasion of Europe has begun."Source
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"Objective: to compete with George Soros... who since 1984 with his Open Society has spent at least $32 billion"Source
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"The Movement, in fact, intends to function as an extreme right-wing think tank"Source
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Quote #4
"He’s opening the populist fort in Brussels"Source
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Quote #5
Full Extracted Text
Complete text extracted from the document (2,918 characters)
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 01:51:58 +0200
To:
Subject: Re: Fw:
To:
Subject: Re: Fw:
9th circle
On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 1:26 AM Steve Bannon wrote:
Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
From: Benjamin Harnwell
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 22:01:54 +0200
To: Steve Bannon
Subject: Re:
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 22:01:54 +0200
To: Steve Bannon
Subject: Re:
Bannon the European: He’s opening the populist fort in Brussels
The former Trump strategist arrives in Europe with "The Movement". Objective: an alliance between right-wing leaders, from Salvini to Orbán in view of the 2019 elections
NEW YORK. The invasion of Europe has begun. Steve Bannon, 65, the American far-right guru who was Donald Trump’s right-hand man in the White House — but let go last summer following the racist violence in Charlottesville — is preparing to march on Brussels. Launching, he told the Daily Beast himself, a new non-profit foundation called The Movement, (Il Movimento), right in the heart of Europe and its institutions. Through which he hopes to coordinate the populist right in view of the European elections which will be held in spring 2019.
Objective: to compete with George Soros, the American billionaire of Hungarian origin, benefactor of the Democratic party, who since 1984 with his Open Society has spent at least $32 billion in support of NGOs dealing with human rights. And for this he became the bogeyman of the populist right, accused of plots of all kinds: including that of wanting to replace Italians with immigrants in order to have labour at low cost. A mantra repeated in the past on Twitter also by the current Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini.
The ambition of Steve Bannon, former director of the alt-right American site Breitbart — which in the European 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 long since been dreaming.
The Movement, in fact, intends to function as an extreme right-wing think tank: a source of strategic advice 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 third of 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. The American 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 from Facebook to try to influence the presidential election from which Donald Trump emerged victor. It is not a mystery that for a long time he courts nationalists of the right from East to
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