Steve Bannon imposter fools Breitbart editor into saying some pretty weird stuff

Uhhhh ...
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Keith Wagstaff
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Steve Bannon imposter fools Breitbart editor into saying some pretty weird stuff
The real Steve Bannon. Credit: pool/Getty Images

The same person who tricked "The Mooch" via email has now fooled the editor of Breitbart -- posing as none other than Steve Bannon.

The self-proclaimed "email prankster" contacted Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow from [email protected]. As CNN reported, Marlow said he and other Breitbart editors would do Bannon's "dirty work" against the former Trump adviser's enemies in the White House.

He also said the "best conspiracy on the whole internet" was that Jared Kushner was a "cuckhold," which, well, close enough. But then things got real strange.

(Warning: The following is gross.)

According to a copy of the emails shared by the prankster, when the fake Steve Bannon made up a weird story about President Donald Trump decanting his wine with pantyhose, Marlow replied:

"This makes more sense to me than you think.

When the best looking dude in my high school (who went on to play for the Yankees) defended R Kelly pissing on chicks to me, I knew certain people at a certain stature played by different rules. Chasing dragons normal people never even consider…”

Uhhh, not cool.

Marlow later told CNN "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. If people want to know our thinking, they don't need to judge us on illicitly obtained comments that were intended to be private, they can simply read our front page."

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Keith Wagstaff

Keith Wagstaff is an assistant editor at Mashable and a terrible Settlers of Catan player. He has written for TIME, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, NBC News, The Village Voice, VICE, GQ and New York Magazine, among many other reputable and not-so-reputable publications. After nearly a decade in New York City, he now lives in his native Los Angeles.

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