Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein

What was that relationship really about?

Here is Steve Bannon speaking at a 2018 conference organized by a far-right group Vlaams Belang in Belgium. About the same time, he was also visiting Jeffrey Epstein’s mansion on the Upper East Side. SYLVAIN LEFEVRE/GETTY IMAGES

If you follow the news, you know the name Steve Bannon. He’s Trump’s emissary to the alt-right, the former head of Breitbart who is dodging inquiries from the January 6 commission, who got in trouble and was pardoned by Trump.

Bannon is also a Jeffrey Epstein buddy who, according to several reports, visited Epstein’s houses on multiple continents, and spent hours prepping Epstein for a 60 Minutes interview that never happened. When Epstein invited a reporter to dinner it was with Bannon.

Maybe your brain is imagining how those two things fit together, like they’re just two lumps in some kind of rich guy stew.

I see at least four other aspects: 

First up in my craw is this oddity: Do we know how Bannon and Epstein met? I have a lot of questions about Steve Bannon’s …