White House chief strategist Steve Bannon made up to $2.5 million last year, according to a new financial snapshot of his business holdings.
Bannon is one of about 180 aides whose finances will come into focus Friday.
The financial background of President Donald Trump aides such as Bannon, Jared Kushner and Gary Cohn are detailed in new forms that disclose the assets that those aides held when they walked in the doors of the White House — before administration counsel advised them to resign from various postings, divest certain holdings or recuse themselves from future decisions. But the documents will nevertheless offer a portrait into the lives of several key White House aides, especially those who came from Wall Street or have other ties to the financial industry.
Bannon’s forms reveal numerous ties to various conservative organizations and sources funded by the family of influential Trump donors Bob and Rebekah Mercer, such as Breitbart News, which he led, along with Cambridge Analytica, a data firm used by many Republican clients. Other income sources for him are Bannon Strategic Advisors, a consultancy firm valued at as high as $25 million, along with Affinity Media Holdings, which could have awarded him capital gains of as high as $1 million last year.
The holdings of Kushner, a real estate executive like Trump, will also reveal some of the finances of Ivanka Trump, to whom he is married.
Kushner resigned from 266 positions to take his job in the West Wing, a senior administration official told reporters.
And Cohn, Trump’s chief economic adviser, will likely have the most complicated package of documents as the former president of giant Goldman Sachs.