Harry Reid made clear his concern for America in the wake of Donald Trump's election via a statement last week, saying "Watching white nationalists celebrate while innocent Americans cry tears of fear does not feel like America."
Those white nationalists are now rewarded with a very powerful voice in the White House: Steve Bannon. News of Bannon’s appointment caused Reid's spokesman to unleash on twitter.
Trump's choice of Bannon as his top aide signals that White Supremacists will be represented at the highest levels in Trump's White House. It is easy to see why the KKK views Trump as their champion when Trump appoints Bannon as his top aide. Bannon was "the main driver behind Breitbart becoming a white ethno-nationalist propaganda mill," according to the [Southern Poverty Law Center].
Sworn testimony in a court case alleged that Bannon committed violent domestic abuse and stated that he "didn't want the girls [his children] going to school with Jews." And in Bannon's time running Breitbart, the website published headlines such as:
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And Reid and team are going to continue this fight, undeterred by direct threats from the Trump regime.
Kellyanne Conway's warning that Reid should be "very careful about characterizing somebody in a legal sense" was answered by his spokesman. "Trump owes the nation leadership, not petty attempts to silence his critics. […] It only took five days for President-elect Trump to try to silence his critics with the threat of legal action," he said. "This should shock and concern all Americans. […] Trump has always used threats and intimidation. Now he wants to silence a discussion of the acts of hate and threats of violence being committed in his name across the country. Silencing this discussion normalizes hate and intimidates the victims."
Reid has stood up to worse than Trump and Conway—his and his family's lives were actually in danger when he was fighting the mob as chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission. He's not going to back down from this proto-fascist or his minions.