Posted on 08/14/2017 4:18:38 PM PDT by Rockitz
WASHINGTON — Rupert Murdoch has repeatedly urged President Trump to fire him. Anthony Scaramucci, the president’s former communications director, thrashed him on television as a white nationalist. Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, the national security adviser, refused to even say he could work with him.
For months, Mr. Trump has considered ousting Stephen K. Bannon, the White House chief strategist and relentless nationalist who ran the Breitbart website and called it a “platform for the alt-right.” Mr. Trump has sent Mr. Bannon to a kind of internal exile, and has not met face-to-face for more than a week with a man who was once a fixture in the Oval Office, according to aides and friends of the president.
So far, Mr. Trump has not been able to follow through — a product of his dislike of confrontation, the bonds of foxhole friendship forged during the 2016 presidential campaign and concerns about what mischief Mr. Bannon might do once he leaves the protective custody of the West Wing.
Not least, Mr. Bannon embodies the defiant populism at the core of the president’s agenda. Despite his marginalization, Mr. Bannon consulted the president repeatedly over the weekend as Mr. Trump struggled to respond to the neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Va. In general, Mr. Bannon has cautioned the president not to criticize far-right activists too severely for fear of antagonizing a small but energetic part of his base.
But what once endeared him to the president has now become a major liability. After the president waited two days to blame white supremacists for the violence in Charlottesville, there is new pressure from Mr. Trump’s critics to dismiss Mr. Bannon.
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I think these should be called “hopeful headlines”. That is, they are the hopes of the writers.
“In general, Mr. Bannon has cautioned the president not to criticize far-right activists too severely for fear of antagonizing a small but energetic part of his base.”
Pure conjecture. In other words Fake News.
@realDonaldTrump: Made additional remarks on Charlottesville and realize once again that the #Fake News Media will never be satisfied...truly bad people!
That lady is IvankaTrump best friend .
Really .
A spy .?
when did that story cone out .
I would like to read more on that
We'd better hope so, because if it ever becomes real, my faith in the President would be seriously shaken.
Steve Bannon is absolutely the last person President Trump should be considering getting rid of.
I don't see how the President could remain anchored in the populism that elected him if he ousted Bannon. The President's agenda would be cast adrift, IMHO.
What in the world would be the President's ostensible reasoning? It would be an extremely ill-advised and risky move, with no upside, as far as I can tell.
The NYT publishes some seriously outlandish projection and speculation against the Trump administration; it would be a shame if they "got it right" on this story, even accidentally.
I have to remind myself sometimes just how bad the track record—and integrity—of the NY Times really is. Every once in awhile I start to think they're capable of actual journalism—you know, like how even a broken clock is right twice a day...
Trump will fold, he has on everything.
Absolute BS.
Bump!
Well here is that story .
Rupert and Ivanka appear to be fools .
Rupert Murdoch has repeatedly urged President Trump to fire him.The man who paid billions for his big media empire has it in for the new media warrior. Sounds like a bad case of ringworm Rupert.
just seeing the names of the writers is enough to know it is fake news...but fake news that is meant to place added pressure on the president. the media is the enemy.
.... there is new pressure from Mr. Trump’s critics to dismiss Mr. Bannon.
Why are critics always so critical?
Mr. Bannon seems like one of the more sane ones out of the whole batch surrounding the President.
That must have been a real doozy of a strategy session when they planned that article.
The New York Times can be counted on to trash Trump just as sure as the sun shines.
Thrush is the self admitted hack who sent stories bout the Clinton campaign to Podesta for approval. He probably got this story from him.
I don’t think Trump supporters in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Wisconsin really care about Bannon’s Whitehouse status. They want a strong border, a tax cut and work...if they can pass the drug test.
The Slimes is thinking now is the time to call for Bannon’s head because of Charlotteville.
You’re never gonna see Bannon go. He’s one us.
Literally a true Soros operative .
Just research his evil left wing resume .
Pure Evil Soros Plant.
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