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 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...”
Their chance of getting any of those things is lessened if Bannon is ousted.
Pretty much.
they’ve moved on from McMaster back to Bannon again. There’s a pattern here: (person found objectionable), back to Bannon; (person found objectionable), back to Bannon. (person found objectionable) back to Bannon.
The White House is full of Obama minions but it seems only the Trump supporters are the ones getting fired. If Bannon goes, I’ll see it as evidence that the Swamp is draining Trump.
So far Bannon has been the most trustworthy, IMHO and please remember I really am only going by appearances.
Yep - fake is what fake does...they actually use Rupert Murdoch as an example......
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