Ex-McConnell aide knocks Bannon for Roy Moore scandal

A former aide for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) knocked former White House strategist Stephen Bannon for his support of Alabama GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore amid new allegations that Moore made sexual advances on teenage girls. 

“This is what happens when you let reckless, incompetent idiots like Steve Bannon go out and recruit candidates who have absolutely no business running for the U.S. Senate,” said former McConnell aide Josh Holmes to The New York Times. 

Bannon, now the executive chairman at Breitbart News, butted heads with McConnell in the Alabama GOP primary over his support of Moore, an anti-establishment figure who ran against the establishment-backed Sen. Luther Strange (R-Ala.). 

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Since leaving the White House, Bannon has launched an effort to front challengers to unseat establishment Republicans who do not fully embrace President Trump’s agenda. Bannon spoke at a campaign event for Moore on the eve of his victory over Strange. 

At the urging of McConnell and others, Trump endorsed Moore’s opponent, which reportedly frustrated the president after the election upset. 

McConnell and other top Senate Republicans have said Thursday that Moore should step down if the sexual allegations prove to be true, in response to a bombshell report from The Washington Post.

The report published testimonies of four then-teenage women who said that Moore had made unwanted sexual advances against them while he was a lawyer in his early thirties.