Steve Bannon has been accused of making a Nazi salute at a conservative gathering where President Donald Trump is slated to speak this weekend, but says the gesture was merely “a wave.”

Steve Bannon raised his arm in a gesture that resembled a Nazi salute during a speech Thursday at the Conservative Policy Action Conference. Bannon, the far-right firebrand who was a senior adviser to President Donald Trump during his first term and last year served four months in prison for contempt of Congress,