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Steve Bannon condemns Elon Musk as ‘racist’ and ‘truly evil’

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Steve Bannon at press conference in New York City on 29 October 2024. Photograph: Steven Ferdman/Rex/Shutterstock

In an escalation of discontent among the highest-profile far-right followers of Donald Trump, his former adviser Steve Bannon has called Trump’s newest favorite, Elon Musk, “racist” and a “truly evil guy”, pledging to “take this guy down” and kick him out of the Maga movement.

In an interview with the Corriere della Sera newspaper in Italy, excerpts of which were published this weekend by Breitbart, Bannon criticised Musk’s embrace of some forms of immigration and vowed to ensure that Musk does not have top-level access to the White House.

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