I know Steve Bannon, and none of this nonsense is true

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What's so insidious about the charge being leveled against Steve Bannon is that it's almost impossible to defend yourself against. How do you prove that you're not a white supremacist once people hear the widespread insinuation that you are? If you look, you can find all kinds of testimonies from people like me who actually know him, and know what rot this is. But there's Harry Reid on the Senate floor saying it, and there's the New York Times and the rest of the mainstream media treating the charge like it's self-evidently true. I am quite confident Donald Trump is not going to follow the lead of these people and backtrack on Steve Bannon. He helped lead a successful campaign for the presidency, and Trump has every reason to trust Bannon's strategic instincts. And I think Trump learned during the campaign that you can in fact defy the politically correct media and succeed. Maybe in the process, we can defang their power to tar people as racists just by frequently repeating the insinuation. The nation has real problems to solve - serious ones - and the sooner we stop talking about nonsense like this and start focusing on those problems, the better.

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