Posted on 01/04/2018 7:01:32 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Former White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannons hopes of leading a revolt in the Republican Party this year suffered a severe blow Thursday as his allies rebuked and abandoned him following a nasty public break with President Trump.
Candidates who once embraced Bannon distanced themselves from his efforts, groups aligned with his views sought separation, and his most important financial backer, the billionaire Mercer family, which has championed him for years, announced that it was severing ties.
Even his position as chairman of Breitbart News, a website he has referred to as one of his most effective weapons, was being reviewed by the companys leadership, according to people familiar with the talks a move that White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders publicly encouraged at Thursdays White House news briefing.
But it was the rare statement from Rebekah Mercer, daughter of investor Robert Mercer, that hit hardest and, combined with Trumps fury, has left Bannon isolated from the two power centers that elevated him from a fringe commentator to an office in the White House.
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And when it's about the $$$$, it is not necessarily about the facts or truth.
There may be another underlying plot as to why this all happened when it did, but at first blush, it looks like Trump out-Bannoned, Bannon on this one.
Where there's smoke, there fire. There is no smoke coming out of Sessions' chimney.
Since schizophrenia hits when young, there surely would be some information available if true for Bannon.
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