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curtis ellis

<h2 style="margin: 25px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-family: ff-meta-serif-web-pro, Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1;">Breitbart wing</h2><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">Curtis Ellis</strong>&nbsp;was a&nbsp;<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160414050424/http://www.wnd.com/author/cellis/?archive=true" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); text-decoration-line: none;">columnist</a>&nbsp;for WorldNetDaily, a website best known for its&nbsp;<a href="http://www.wnd.com/2011/04/286329/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); text-decoration-line: none;">enthusiastic</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/birther-czar-joseph-farah-i-ve-been-talking-to-donald-trump-quite-a-bit" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); text-decoration-line: none;">embrace</a>&nbsp;of the false notion that President Obama was born outside the United States. A column headlined the “The Radical Left’s Ethnic Cleansing of America” won Ellis an&nbsp;<a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-advisor-hillary-and-obama-want-ethnic-cleansing-of-white-working-people/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); text-decoration-line: none;">admiring interview</a>&nbsp;with Steve Bannon, now Trump’s top aide. He is a longtime&nbsp;<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2016/08/10/curtis-ellis-tpp-is-about-redistributing-the-wealth-of-america-to-the-rest-of-the-world/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); text-decoration-line: none;">critic</a>&nbsp;of trade deals such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;" /><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">Ellis was hired Jan. 20 as a special assistant to the secretary at the Labor Department. Asked about his role in a brief phone interview Tuesday, he said: “Nothing I can tell you.”</p>