Full text of today’s official WH statement on Bannon has been published by all the news organizations now, including Breitbart and Fox. Says Sarah Huckabee Sanders handed out the statement before a press conference today.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/01/03/donald-trump-furious-steve-bannon-not-only-lost-his-job-he-lost-his-mind/
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/03/read-president-donald-trumps-full-statement-on-steve-bannon.html
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/01/03/trump-slams-bannon-after-criticism-says-ex-chief-strategist-lost-his-mind.html
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-text/trump-statement-on-former-white-house-strategist-bannon-idUSKBN1ES1QD
.... ”Steve pretends to be at war with the media, which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at the White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was. It is the only thing he does well. Steve was rarely in a one-on-one meeting with me and only pretends to have had influence to fool a few people with no access and no clue, whom he helped write phony books.....
OUCH!!
I love POTUS, but I’m not sure how I feel about this statement.
I will say this, because I think Bannon and Breitbart need our SUPPORT because they’re only one of a few really anti globalist grass roots media outlet. I don’t like trying to discredit them, it’s like shooting ourselves in the foot.
However, I think it’s interesting that after Bannon left/fired, some things were actually able to get done in those six months like working on the tax reform and passing it.
I wonder if he was the one causing a lot of friction within the WH the first six months and also the discord with congress and the WH?
I’m not placing all the blame on Bannon, but it’s clear he really screwed the pooch with Moore in Ala.
Yeah, that’s going to leave a mark.
Thanks for posting those links. Hopefully now we can get past the shock stage which has some denying Trump said this about Bannon and deal with the reality of it.
I may not know him as well as others, but to me Trump does not seem like the kind of man who will take criticism of his family (blood) lightly, no matter how accurate such criticism may be. And I’m not talking about Bannon’s previous words against Kushner.
Bannon calling Trump Jr. “treasonous” in his latest book is probably what engendered this response from Trump. I may not have used such harsh language (describing Jr’s meeting) but it was clearly a mistake for him to have done so, at least after the fact.
But Trump Sr. will truck no criticism of his family that’s the bottom line here. Nothing more complicated than that. No “3D chess” no “backroom deal” between him and Bannon to “troll the media”.
Just a guy pissed off at another guy for insulting his kid.