Trump’s Debt to ‘Brilliant’ Rachel Maddow
Stephen K. Bannon, the new CEO of the Trump campaign, picked Maddow as a guiding light. It makes a certain odd kind of sense.
Rachel Maddow speaks on Aug. 2, 2011, in Beverly Hills, California.
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Many political consultants have a guru they turn to for wisdom and aphorisms—Sun Tzu, say, or Machiavelli. Steve Bannon, the new CEO of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has one, too: It’s Rachel Maddow of MSNBC.
“I watch her show every night,” Bannon told me. “I’m a huge fan.”