An email prankster posing as Steve Bannon managed to trick editors at Breitbart while news was swirling about his White House firing and return to the rightward news website. The editors told the fake Bannon they couldn't wait for him to get back.
CNN said the prankster, who tweets under the name @SINON_REBORN, managed to convince Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow that he was the recently-ousted chief strategist for President Donald Trump by utilizing a fake Bannon account.
Marlow penned what reads like a welcoming back reply.
The two discussed “globalist takeover” in a series of emails, with Marlow and several other editors bidding to do Bannon’s dirty work against White House aides, per CNN.
"Reading online about how i'll be bringing forth my wrath on Ivanka (Trump) and Jared (Kushner)," the notorious prankster wrote in an email to Marlow on Sunday.
"I'd be doing this great nation a service if I did."
Marlow responded, saying he had “spooked em today,” adding that he had written "five stories on globalist takeover positioning you as only hope to stop it."
The editor-in-chief went on to say “you need to own that, just have surrogates do the dirty work. (Mathew) Boyle, Raheem (Kassam), me, Tony (Lee) have been waiting for this.”
The two also discussed Kushner and Ivanka Trump being ousted by the end of the year and shared information about a smear about their private lives.
“Do you think you’ll have them packed and shipping out before Christmas?” @SINON_REBORN wrote as Bannon.
Marlow said he would see what he could do.
“Hard to know given your description of them as evil,” he wrote.
“I don’t know what motivates them. If they are semi normal, then yes, they out by end of year.”
@SINON_REBORN also managed to con Breitbart editor Joel Pollak.
“Had a good chat with Alex,” the fake Bannon wrote via email.
“Seems he’s already aligning the crosshairs and making me the masked puppeteer.”
Pollak, who was more reserved, replied by saying “I just tried calling, not sure if you have the same number.”
He left his contact details and said he was “available anytime.”
Marlow later told CNN “the obsession with Breitbart News is simply a result of our effectiveness.”
He added that “this time, an imposter deceitfully obtained and shared with CNN tongue-in-cheek emails that revealed that we feel Globalists present an existential threat to the agenda that got President Trump elected."
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