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Trump Campaign CEO To Address Far-Right Summit Days After Election

Executive producer Stephen Bannon poses at the premiere of "Sweetwater" during the 2013 Sundance Film Festival on Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013 in Park City, Utah. Republican Donald Trump is overhauling his campaign again, bringing in Breitbart News' Bannon as campaign CEO and promoting pollster Kellyanne Conway to campaign manager. Trump told The Associated Press in a phone interview early Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016, that he has known both individuals for a long time. (Photo by Danny Moloshok/Invision/AP)

Two days after the presidential election, the David Horowitz Freedom Center is holding its annual “Restoration Weekend” conference in Palm Beach, and Donald Trump’s campaign CEO Steve Bannon is among the confirmed speakers.

The Center for New Community first reported(link is external) on Bannon’s scheduled attendance.

Bannon, who left the alt-right outlet Breitbart to join Trump’s campaign, will join speakers including former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Reps. Sean Duffy and Jim Bridenstine and alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, also of Breitbart.

Horowitz’s “Restoration Weekend” has long been a hotbed of right-wing paranoia.

At previous summits, Rep. Trent Franks wondered if President Obama was a secret Muslim(link is external), the Family Research Council’s Jerry Boykin said “thank God for ISIS(link is external)” because the group brought attention to Obama’s “destruction of our military,” and anti-Muslim activist Pamela Geller warned of coming gulags(link is external).

Horowitz himself is a(link is external) notorious(link is external) conspiracy(link is external) theorist(link is external) and fervent(link is external) critic(link is external) of(link is external) black(link is external) activists(link is external).

Other speakers will include(link is external) Robert Spencer, Dinesh D’Souza, Tom Fitton and Nigel Farage.