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by Aidan McLaughlin | 7:16 am, January 4th, 2018
Steve Bannon lost the support of Rebekah Mercer, the GOP megadonor and part-owner of Breitbart, after crowing about his presidential ambitions, according to a Washington Post report.
The WaPo report, which came in the wake of Michael Wolffs new book on the Trump White House of which excerpts dropped like bombs on Wednesday detailed President Donald Trumps scathing response to Bannons quotes in the book, as well as the cease and desist letter the president sent to his former chief strategist. Buried in the report, however, is a revealing piece of information:
Bannon has in recent weeks also alienated his main financial backer, Rebekah Mercer, WaPo reports, after he told several other major conservative donors that he would be able to count on the Mercers financial support should he run for president, a person familiar with the conversations said.
The person said Mercer now does not plan to financially support Bannons future projects and that she was frustrated by his moves in Alabama and some of his comments in the news media that seemed to stoke unnecessary fights.
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SweetieD
(1,660 posts)he got in. Bannon is a slimeball but doesn't have the name recognition or conman/carnival barker/showmanship qualities Trump had. He is delusional if he thinks he could be president.
MythosMaster
(445 posts)trump kicked it away, now any mythomaniac thinks they can run.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Still haven't gotten over Pelosi's refusal to address the Bush problem.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)We just elect evil. With the help of Russians.