(JTA) — Steve Bannon had some choice words about Palm Beach Jewish women who support Donald Trump.
In an interview with Vanity Fair published on Thursday, the former White House adviser and current head of Breitbart News described the reception he expected to get in the tony Florida enclave in November, when he attended Restoration Weekend — an annual gathering of right-wing thinkers hosted by leftist-turned-conservative David Horowitz.
“The thing about Restoration Weekend,” Bannon tells author Gabriel Sherman, “is you got a lot of Jewish Palm Beach matrons who used to be superhot. They were all left-wing in the 60s. That was before they locked down successful Palm Beach business guys. Now they’re hardcore. You half expect them to throw their panties at Horowitz. They’re all Trump people.”
In the same article, Bannon shows he hasn’t buried the hatchet with Trump’s son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner, with whom he frequently clashed as a rival for the president’s ear. Bannon suggests his worldview, not Kushner’s moderating influence, still holds sway in the White House he left in August.
Trump “momentarily has lapses when he’s convinced by people around him in the White House to do ridiculous things like support Big Luther Strange, another genius move by Jared,” Bannon said.
Trump supported Strange in Alabama’s recent Republican Senate primary, while Bannon backed the eventual nominee, Judge Roy Moore, in a race seen as a testing-ground for Bannon’s assault on the Republican establishment.
Moore lost the general election to Democrat Doug Jones, after Moore was accused of sexual misconduct involving teenage girls while he was in his 30s.
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