Bannon Deflects Criticism for Engaging California Governor in Podcast

Conservative media personality Steve Bannon has dismissed criticism from some Republicans who say he shouldn’t have agreed to be a guest on California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new podcast. “It’s very simple: I was there to move the project of economic nationalism and populism,” Bannon told The Epoch Times in an interview after the hour-long podcast on March 12. Bannon, a former advisor to President Donald Trump and host of War Room, a podcast on Real America’s Voice, said he wants to promote these themes to a broad range of Democrats who don’t hear about them in the mainstream media....