Posted on 08/18/2017 9:46:56 AM PDT by reaganaut1
President Trump has told senior aides that he has decided to remove Stephen K. Bannon, the embattled White House chief strategist who helped Mr. Trump win the 2016 election, according to two administration officials briefed on the discussion.
The president and senior White House officials were debating when and how to dismiss Mr. Bannon. The two administration officials cautioned that Mr. Trump is known to be averse to confrontation within his inner circle, and could decide to keep on Mr. Bannon for some time.
As of Friday morning, the two men were still discussing Mr. Bannon’s future, the officials said. A person close to Mr. Bannon insisted the parting of ways was his idea, and that he had submitted his resignation to the president on Aug. 7, to be announced at the start of this week, but it was delayed in the wake of the racial unrest in Charlottesville, Va.
Mr. Bannon had clashed for months with other senior West Wing advisers and members of the president’s family.
But the loss of Mr. Bannon, the right-wing nationalist who helped propel some of Mr. Trump’s campaign promises into policy reality, raises the potential for the president to face criticism from the conservative news media base that supported him over the past year.
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Most obviously, that information is incorrect.
They have the money. The other perennial attraction, due to human nature, is power. Washington, D.C. has power in spades.
“Bannon will fight the Left on the outside now”
Yes; I hope that’s the strategy. Now Bannon can go ghetto on DJT’s enemies without having to worry about what he says might reflect on the White House since he’ll no longer be an employee. I LOVE to hear Corey Lewandowski interviewed, and he never holds back. Hoping this is what’s in store with Bannon leaving.
Sounds good. Sometime your allies can do better on the outside. And Bannon likely will still have access to the WH.
Man, Trump is going to change everyone in his administration before four years are up. I cannot remember so many changes in just the first year.
LOL! Funny how many here are really never-Trumpers.
He said it came from his WH sources
Btw...gorka probably next. Wonder if miller can survive
Right winged nationalist. Guess that is a new term I have to start describing myself by besides Christian, Conservative, patriot, southerner, freedom loving American, etc. etc.
I know LOL they are a nasty bunch.
Bannon more than any other person steered Trump onto the ideological course that got him elected, and he has done his best to keep him on that course. With Bannon gone and Trump's relations with Sessions worse than ever, most of the advice Trump will get will be from "moderates", establishment Republicans, and his own liberal family members.
That would explain why Bannon would leave. When you don’t report directly to the president anymore and now have to answer to a chief of staff, you have no power.
What about Bannon's big blackboard with a list of the total Trump agenda on it? Is someone going to erase it?
I like Bannon, but I disagree with the way you characterize him. Trump was a juggernaut long before Bannon joined his campaign last August. If there is one person in Trump’s campaign who deserves the most credit for his victory (and this is a big IF), I think it’s Kellyanne Conway.
Yeah, I always trust Maggie and the Slimes.
(Hmmm, great name for a punk rock group!)
Now the loudest voices whispering in the President's ears will be globalists like McMaster and liberals like Ivanka.
Unless Bannon goes ghetto on DJT & his administration. I do not rule out that possibility.
Both appear to be team players, I wouldn’t be concerned about them, unless appearances are not reality.
chief of staff
I hope that this is just a rumor, but every news source Left, Right, and in the middle is running with it.
True that. I know one guy that is living it and can’t get out.
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