Friday morning French far-right leader Jordan Bardera took to the US in National Harbor, Maryland, after former Donald Trump aide Steve Bannon flashed a fascist-style salute a few hours ago. We have cancelled a speech scheduled for the Conservative Political Action Conference.
Bannon, the host of the now popular right-wing podcast show who helped Trump win the office in 2016, finished his CPAC speech with his arms stretched out, fingers pointed at him on Thursday. High-tech billionaire Elon Musk at the second inauguration of the US president in January.
Bardera, a French far-right national rally party, has withdrawn from the CPAC, citing Bannon’s allusion to “Nazi ideology.”
Bannon’s salute during his speech brought cheers from the audience at the American gathering.
Prior to his appearance, Bardera, who was in Washington, said he was going to talk about US-French relations, but said, “I wasn’t in the room yesterday, but I wasn’t one of the speakers and not attended due to provocation.” , allowed myself to gestures implying Nazi ideology. Therefore, I made the immediate decision to cancel my speech scheduled for this afternoon.”
The National Rally Party was dominated by the Left Alliance in the French SNAP election last summer.
On Thursday night, Bannon fired the CPAC crowd. There he covered him in Trump’s circle and spoke immediately after Bannon’s mask, not in good condition.
“The only way they win is that we will retreat, we will not retreat, we will not surrender, we will not quit — we will fight, fight, fight “That’s,” Bannon said, reflecting the encouragement to Trump supporters following his attempts to assassinate him.
Bannon then threw his right arm diagonally and turned his palm down. The Nazi salute is perhaps more familiar, especially from the historical footage of Adolf Hitler, with the arm pointing straight away, but the fascist overtones of Bannon and Musk signals were unmistakable. .
The anti-resolution league, which has repeatedly campaigned against anti-Semitism, defines Nazi salute as “a lifting the right arm with the palm lowered and extended.”
“Steve Bannon’s long and intrusive history of threatening anti-Semitism, hatred, violence and empowering extremists is well known and well documented by the ADL and others,” the X-Abolished League responds. He writes the following: However, I am worried about this behavior being normalized. ”
Bannon spoke to a French journalist at Le Point News magazine on Friday, saying that the gesture was not a Nazi salute, but a “wave like I always did.”
“I’ll do it at the end of every speech to thank the crowd,” Bannon said.
However, from the video, he shoots the arm in the arm with a short straight arm gesture, then smiles and nods, cheering the audience, saying “Amen.” He walked the stage in honor of the audience, first abandoning his right arm and then his left arm, appearing to be the approval of the crowd’s traditional post-speech.
Online, some far-right users have suggested that Bannon intentionally gestured to “trigger” the liberals and the media. Others distanced themselves.
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Nick Fuentes, a far-right influencer and Trump ally who uses his platform to share anti-Semitism views, said Bannon’s salute is “a bit offensive to me too.” He spoke in.
Bannon’s gesture, like a mask, is characterized as a “roman salute,” but some historians argue that it is an indistinguishable distinction. Some right-wing supporters have argued without evidence that the Roman salute was born in ancient Rome. Historians discovered that instead it was adopted in the 1920s by Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini, and by German Hitler’s Nazi Party.
However, ADL concluded that, in the group’s view, Musk “made a nasty gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute.”
Bannon’s speech showed the evolution from the traditional conservative meetings of the CPAC to a full-scale Trump-centric rally. Bannon also spoke about the upcoming elections in 2028, cheering, “We want Trump,” and “We’re 28 years old and want Trump.”
The statement repeated Trump’s own people on Wednesday, asking the crowd if they should run again, met a call to “four more years” and was called “King” in a social media post. The US president is limited to two conditions.
Meanwhile, Musk wore a chainsaw at CPAC on Thursday, shining a chainsaw and emerging the federal government’s work overseeing multiple departments in the face of legal challenges and protests. He called it a “brewery chainsaw.”
It was handed over to him on stage by Javier Mairi, the right-wing president of Argentine.
