New book says Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will ‘flashed’ through Bannon’s mind and that former adviser repeatedly invoked Hitler
In Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted, the New York Times reporter Jeremy W Peters shows the former campaign chair, White House strategist and close Trump ally repeatedly invoking Hitler when discussing the 45th president.
In Peters’ book, he is quoted as saying “Trump did not win in 2016 … Hillary Clinton lost” and complaining that Trump never recognised as much. He also complains that during the 2020 election, aides showed Trump misleading polling data in order to mask his deficit to Biden and thereby avoid outbreaks of fury.
“It’s like showing Hitler fake armour divisions when the Reichstag is burning down,” Bannon says.