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Steve Bannon and his team are treading lightly after President Trump publicly put his chief strategist on notice in an interview Tuesday night.
ASAWIN SUEBSAENG
04.12.17 11:00 AM ET
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According to Trump administration officials speaking on the condition of anonymity to speak freely, Team Bannon was blindsided by Trumps words in the Post, one official close to Bannon said. Of course we didnt know [that] interview was coming, the official continued.
Another official told The Daily Beast on Tuesday that Bannon and other America-First-style nationalists in Trumps ranks are still laying low for a bit more as they figure out a way forward.
Bannon did not respond to a request for comment, but the White House communications office confirmed that the Post quoted Trump accurately, and that the presidents words spoke for themselves.
Bannon and his allies, both working in and outside of the West Wing, have been losing influence in Trumps inner political circle, as reports of infighting between Bannon and Jared Kushner, Trumps son-in-law and senior adviser, spilled over into full public view. Last week, The Daily Beast reported, citing multiple senior Trump administration officials that face-to-face ideological clashing has been nonstop in recent weeks, and that Bannon had called Kushner a globalist and a cuck. One official said Bannon had complained about Team Kushner trying to shiv him and push him out the door. The comments came one day after it was announced that Bannon was removed from the National Security Council.
The news this week comes during heightened speculation of whether Bannons remaining days operating out of his White House war room are numbered. If Bannon were to leaveor get tossed fromthe Trump White House, it would be a colossal loss for his anti-Republican-establishment wing of Trumps senior team which stresses staunchly nationalist principles such as a hardline on immigration and trade. Kushner, Ivanka Trump, and Trumps chief economic adviser Gary Cohn (who, as Axios reports, is nicknamed Globalist Gary by Team Bannon) represent a more moderate, conventional, and centrist-leaning faction.
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)Almost as if this was planned.
Who does it benefit? Putin and the type of capitalists like the Koch Brothers who have more than greed in mind.
tammywammy
(26,582 posts)What WaPo interview are they referencing here?
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Last edited Wed Apr 12, 2017, 02:07 PM - Edit history (1)
treats people, who he has supposedly vetted and hired to do great things........like a stinking, stray dog who just wandered into the Trump organization when they screw up?
Donnie can't even take responsibility for who chooses for jobs..
rickford66
(5,524 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)They use each other as long as they can, and they don't think twice about stabbing each other in the back when they are no longer of use to each other. I can't wait to see what Comrade Bannon does to Comrade Trump in response.
3_Limes
(363 posts)Unfortunately, he needs to find a place for him in the WH. If he gave Bannon the boot, Steve-O would be back at BreitFart the next morning with bags and bags of dirty laundry to air, just as publicly as possible.
Trump is screwed. (And I can't tell you how happy I am about it.)
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)Teams? I thought they were supposed to be all on the same team.