En sönderriven affisch med Marine Le Pen. (Michel Spingler / TT / NTB Scanpix)

Trumps vänsajt har svårt att rekrytera i Europa

Efter Donald Trumps valseger satte den högerpopulistiska sajten Breitbart siktet på valrörelserna i Frankrike och Tyskland under året. Många tolkade det som att sajten, vars tidigare chef Steve Bannon nu arbetar som Trumps chefsrådgivare, skulle försöka upprepa bedriften i USA och hjälpa Marine Le Pen och tyska högerpopulisterna AfD i valrörelserna.

Men nu rapporterar Politico att Breitbart har haft svårt i etableringsprocessen i Europa. Sajten har, vad som är känt, ännu inte rekryterat en enda tysk eller fransk skribent. Dessutom råder det delade meningar om vilket språk man ska publicera sig på.

– Jag tror att det är osannolikt att de hinner dra igång innan presidentvalet i april, säger Vivien Hoch, som leder en fransk supportergrupp till Trump, till Politico.

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Breitbart News Network (known commonly as Breitbart News, Breitbart or Breitbart.com) is a far-right American news, opinion and commentary website founded in 2007 by Andrew Breitbart. Breitbart News has published a number of falsehoods and conspiracy theories, as well as intentionally misleading stories. Conceived by the conservative Andrew Breitbart during a visit to Israel in summer 2007 as a website "that would be unapologetically pro-freedom and pro-Israel" — Breitbart News later aligned with the European populist right and American alt-right under the management of former executive chairman Steve Bannon. The New York Times describes Breitbart News as an organization with "ideologically driven journalists" that generates controversy "over material that has been called misogynist, xenophobic and racist". Bannon declared the website "the platform for the alt-right" in 2016, but denied all allegations of racism and later stated that he rejected the "ethno-nationalist" tendencies of the alt-right movement. The owners of Breitbart News deny their website has any connection to the alt-right or has ever supported racist or white supremacist views. Breitbart News voiced support for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, and political scientist Matthew Goodwin described Breitbart News as being "ultra-conservative" in orientation. After the election more than 800 organizations have excluded Breitbart News from ad buys facing the sites controversial positions. Breitbart News is headquartered in Los Angeles, with bureaux in Texas, London, and Jerusalem. Co-founder Larry Solov is the owner and CEO, while Joel Pollak is the senior editor-at-large, and Alexander Marlow is managing-editor. Milo Yiannopoulos, who had served as a senior editor of Breitbart News since 2014, resigned from the company on February 21, 2017 after a video of him making controversial statements in relation to pedophilia surfaced.
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