Breitbart Editor Pledges to Do Bannon’s ‘Dirty Work’ Against the White House to Email Prankster
CNN is reporting that a self-described email prankster fooled the top editors at Breitbart — including Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow — to believe he was former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, who recently returned to Breitbart after being fired last week.
In emails exchanged between the faux Bannon and Marlow, the editor agreed to do Bannon’s “dirty work” against certain White House aides as well as letting the prankster know that he could have Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner booted from the White House “by the end of the year.”
The anonymous prankster has done something similar to this in the past, fooling top White House officials last month into thinking he was other White House officials.
In response to the report, Marlow provided the following statement to CNN, suggesting that the prank emails didn’t reveal anything all that newsworthy:
“The obsession with Breitbart News is simply a result of our effectiveness. This time, an imposter deceitfully obtained and shared with CNN tongue-in-cheek emails that revealed that we feel Globalists present an existential threat to the agenda that got President Trump elected. If people want to know our thinking, they don’t need to judge us on illicitly obtained comments that were intended to be private, they can simply read our front page.”
Immediately after it was announced Bannon was gone from the White House, one Breitbart editor tweeted #WAR while it was reported that the outlet planned to go “thermonuclear” against the “globalists” in the Trump administration in the aftermath of Bannon’s departure.
Watch the report above, via CNN.
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