President-elect Donald Trump denied Tuesday allegations defended his choice of Steve Bannon as chief strategist, pushing back against suggestions that he is a far-right extremist.

"If I thought he was a racist or alt-right or any of the things, the terms we could use, I wouldn't even think about hiring him," Trump told The New York Times on Tuesday, according to a tweet from Times journalist Maggie Haberman.

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