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. Bannons 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 presidents family.
But the loss of Mr. Bannon, the right-wing nationalist who helped propel some of Mr. Trumps 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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Reason #4: Ivanka and Jared get their way and have even more power.
Steve Bannon was a Naval officer. He’s well aware of how to answer to a military guy.
I highly doubt that has anything to do with it.
>> who was a career military guy and civil servant <<
Sorry, but you can’t be both. It’s gotta be one way or the other.
ABC Steven Miller is there via Sessions. I hope Miller doesn’t go all squishy the way Sessions has.
That, and calling an element of Trump's base "a collection of clowns" and "losers." Elitism has its own special stench.
If Bannon is replaced by a real small government, anti swamp person, then I have no problem with it.
So what are the chances of that happening?
For Trump to succeed, he needs to make such a selection.
Maybe my use of "and" was confusing.
The biggest knock on Bannon was that he looked more than a little similar to Michael Moore. LOL.
Steve Bannon became fabulously wealthy after his brief military career. Successful executives don’t waste their time with a bureaucracy.
No, it’s staff who can function under a controlled structure. If I were Chief of Staff or Communications Director and discovered that Brannon had on his own spoken to a press person...any press about any subject...I’d be in his office demanding his resignation immediately. But that’s the lack of control that personified this White House for six months. Such an operation is total chaos.
I don’t care if you’re a globalist, nationalist, scientologist, geologist or cosmetologist, if you don’t operate within the structure of the organization, you are gone. Today not tomorrow.
Anyone who understands anything about nuclear deterrence knows you cannot have that kind of stuff going around. Our posture was "locked and loaded" and "fire and fury," not "we've got nothing, let's talk about it."
Nuclear deterence is a deep and very complicated subject. For professionals on the subject it starts with Thomas Schelling, Arms and Influence:
If Bannon hadn't read and understood it he should have kept his mouth shut and if he had he should have known to keep his mouth shut.
As Don Corleone said in Godfather 1, you keep this stuff inside the family.
Any word on Jared and Ivanka?
He already resigned before that. He wanted to get a jab in on the way out.
They are sitting comfy today as always.
But LS is claiming kelly aad trump approved the Interview
And then there were two.
Posobiec: Bannon: “I am going to go medieval on enemies of Trump now”
Not that I’ve seen.
I’ll make an assumption, however.
Wherever they are, they’re smug. And celebrating.
It is the Worse Timing in History. This will just Embolden the Leftist media. I just can’t believe s*** like this.
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