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An evening with Steve Bannon and John Avlon

Join us for an evening with Steve Bannon as he discusses the 2020 elections, which candidate is most likely to control the center, and the impact of the impeachment proceedings.


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About Steve Bannon:

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Steve Bannon was White House Chief Strategist and Senior Counselor to President Donald Trump. A Goldman Sachs M&A banker, Mr. Bannon has a Master's degree in National Security Studies from Georgetown University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He was a Surface Warfare Officer serving aboard the USS Paul F. Foster (DD-964) in the western Pacific, Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf. Mr. Bannon had served as CEO of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. He served at the Pentagon as a Special Assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations. He is the founder of Citizens of the American Republic, a nonprofit that advocates populism and economic nationalism. He is Chairman for the Rule of Law Society, which investigates abuses of power committed by the Chinese Communist Party, and Co-Founder of the Committee on the Present Danger: China. He is an award winning documentary filmmaker and the former Executive Chairman of Breitbart News.

About John Avlon:

John Avlon is an author, columnist and commentator. He is a senior political analyst and anchor at CNN, appearing on New Day every morning. From 2013 to 2018, he was the editor-in-chief and managing director of The Daily Beast. He is the author of the books Independent Nation: How Centrists Can Change American PoliticsWingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America, and Washington’s Farewell: the Founding Father’s Warning to Future Generations. He is also the co-editor of the acclaimed Deadline Artists journalism anthologies.

The Common Good is proud to have hosted John Avlon several times, recently speaking during our The Rise of Lincoln & U.S. Division event alongside Sidney Blumenthal, and The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards 2019 where he presented the American Spirit Award for Citizen Activism to Bill Browder and Distinguished Public Service to Preet Bharara, moderating them in discussion about “Rule of Law, Corruption, and Abuse of Power”.

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