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Monday, 29 August 2016

Egypt MP owns a house used by Trump’s campaign CEO

Guess what everyone — Breitbart News operates from a building in DC owned and rented out by an Egyptian: Stephen Bannon, Donald Trump’s campaign CEO and executive chairman of far-right media news website Breitbart, is known to stay at the so-called “Breitbart embassy”: “a luxurious [USD 2.4 mn] townhouse beside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, where his website’s staff work from basement offices.” The building is owned by Egyptian member of parliament Mostafa El Gindy, The Guardian says. The piece is originally about how Bannon is registered to vote in Florida at a vacant house at which he does not live. The geniuses at Al Arabiya reframed the whole story to write that “Donald Trump has chosen El Gindy’s house as his campaign headquarters.” El Gindy had to clarify, issuing a statement that the house was rented out by his tourism company to Bannon’s Breitbart News and has nothing to do with Trump’s campaign. As noted in the aforementioned Guardian piece, “Gindy has received favorable coverage from Breitbart News, which styles him as a ‘senior statesman,’ without an accompanying disclosure that he is the website’s landlord.” If any of our readers are unfamiliar with Breitbart’s owner Bannon, see Mother Jones’ article ‘How Donald Trump’s New Campaign Chief Created an Online Haven for White Nationalists,’ which notes that Bannon more or less “endorsed House Speaker Paul Ryan’s primary challenger, businessman Paul Nehlen, who floated the idea of deporting all Muslims from the United States.”

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