The French far-right leader Jordan Bardella has cancelled a scheduled speech at the US Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland after Donald Trump’s former aide Steve Bannon flashed an apparent fascist-style salute there hours before. The National Rally president cited Bannon’s allusion to ‘Nazi ideology’ as the reason.
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Bannon flashed the gesture after speaking on Thursday night directly after tech billionaire Elon Musk, who caused controversy in January after he gave a similar gesture at the US president’s second inauguration
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