Messages sent between the pair in 2019, released in last month’s massive document dump, reveal #SteveBannon courted the late sex offender in attempts to undermine the pontiff after leaving the first #Trump admin.
Bannon had been highly critical of #PopeFrancis whom he saw as an opponent to his “sovereigntist” vision, a brand of nationalist populism which swept through Europe in 2018 & 2019. The released #EpsteinFiles from the #DOJ show that #Epstein had been helping Bannon to build his movement.