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Steve Bannon is in prison, but Trump is using his 'flood the zone' media strategy

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14.10.2024

Steve Bannon, currently serving a four-month federal prison sentence, once explained Donald Trump’s strategy in the final days of his winning 2016 campaign.

“The Democrats don’t matter,” Bannon, the chief strategist for Trump’s 2016 campaign said later. “The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with s–."

We are now watching Bannon’s 2016 strategy in action with 21 days to go before the 2024 election.

Trump is flooding the American media with so much "s---" that there is little mention that he once tried to overturn a lawful election by stopping certification of the 2020 presidential race.

The same media often fail to mention that Trump, a man running for president, was found liable by a jury for sexual assault. How about his threats to prosecute political rivals and even Mark Zuckerberg, the owner of Facebook, as an “election fraudster”? These became non-stories for a press corps drowning in a flood zone of dreck.

So did his ridiculous claim that Vice President Kamala Harris is “mentally impaired.” With their minds hypnotized by Trump’s spin, reporters dismiss that as a joke, just more of Trump mocking people.

Meanwhile, the news is filled up with headlines generated by Trump’s lie that the Biden-Harris administration diverts money from Hurricane aid to help immigrants.

Finally, President Biden had to........

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