Trump advisers signal the knives are out for Bannon

[Julian Englis]

Source: CNN

Two senior Trump advisers -- one inside the White House and another who recently departed -- signaled Sunday that the knives are out for Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump's controversial chief strategist.

The comments come as a source inside the White House tells CNN that White House chief of staff John Kelly has soured on Bannon, a political operative with deep ties to the 'alt-right' and the former head of the conservative news site Breitbart.

Bannon is seen as pursuing his own agenda, which does not fit mesh with the power structure Kelly is putting in place, the source added.

National security adviser H.R. McMaster was asked three times by NBC's Chuck Todd on Sunday whether he can work with Bannon in the White House. McMaster dodged the question each time and eventually left it an open question as to whether Bannon is motived by advancing the President's agenda.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/13/politics/trump-advisers-bannon/index.html?sr=twCNN081317trump-advisers-bannon

[SummerSnow]

1. Trump will never get rid of Bannon

[Dave Starsky]

10. Won't happen.

Trump would be Julius Ceasared on the golf course by his own advisors if he even suggested such a thing.

I'm not buying it. Bannon and Trump are both in the WH for as long as they want to be.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. Mercer-Bannon-Mercer have a lot of dirt on tRump & rent news site pixels by the billions. . . nt

[FarPoint]

20. Exactly...

This is another diversion/ piviot tactics always a good to scam by tRump Train.

[FreepFryer]

2. Most of all, chilling use of historical phrase "the knives" to describe internal fascist struggles.

https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007885

[mahina]

3. Please take Miller and Gorky with him, the other white power fascists.

[Blue Owl]

4. Let him rot like his own liver

n/t

[Dopers_Greed]

5. If it's what you say

I Love it especially later in summer

[SunSeeker]

14. LOL

[dlk]

6. More "Palace Intrigue" That's Just a Distraction

There will just be another deplorable to take his place until this entire administration (Pence, Ryan, and McConnell included) is expunged.

[DFW]

11. But that's a big part of the problem

Ryan and McConnell are not part of the administration, and can't be expunged in the same manner that a president is impeached and removed from office. They are he majority leaders of the two houses of Congress, which are supposed to be part of our system of checks and balances, not rubber stamps for any loony tunes notions that might emanate from an unbalanced occupant of the White House.

[sharp_stick]

7. What a dysfunctional shit show

We're six months in to this administration and it's falling apart in spectacular fashion. We're experiencing why Trump is so able to run a business into the ground like no one else.

[DFW]

8. It seems more like "Bannon is motivated by SETTING the president's agenda"

It's natural that such a stance would not sit well with WH staff who care more about the country than some right-wing's loon's agenda--if any such staff remain in the White House, that is.

[janx]

9. It's far too late for this.

The "alt-right" contingent is fully embedded in Trump's presidency and a large part of what got him elected in the first place. It expanded during his campaign. Its goal was to take over the already dysfunctional and crazy Republican party, and it essentially has.

The horse is out of the barn, toothpaste out of the tube, genie out of the bottle.

[bearsfootball516]

12. Don't know if cutting Bannon is possible

Unless he wants to lose the Breitbart coalition.

[keithbvadu2]

15. If Bannon is ousted... Does he go back to Breitbart?

If Bannon is ousted... Does he go back to Breitbart?

Trump had to tell Breitbart to knock off the propaganda against Jewish Jared.

Bannon (a lover spurned) might not be nice anymore.

[SergeStorms]

23. He's never LEFT Breitbart.

From Wikipedia:

"It has been also reported that the Trump administration retroactively granted Bannon a blanket exemption from federal ethics rules that would allow him to communicate with editors at Breitbart News,[123] which according to former Breitbart consultant Kurt Bardella would be proof of the administration's intent to allow him to continue being "the de facto editorial director of Breitbart."

So the white nationalists are well entrenched in the White House, and it's highly doubtful Bannon will be be shown the door.

[Scarsdale]

13. tRump's agenda? WHAT agenda?

Remember in the campaign, tRump Jr. was sent to ask Kasich if he would like to be The most powerful VP in history? He would essentially run the WH. Kasich was stunned, asking what exactly tRump would be doing while Kasich was pretending to be president Jr. smirked and replied "He will be making America great again" Donnie Two Scoops did not want the job, just the adoration, and prestige. He wanted to golf, travel free to his resorts and do NOTHING.

[Progressive dog]

17. Bannon isn't good enough for them to work with

but they'll continue to work for Trump. I don't care which of Trump's advisers are left standing, none of them are obeying the oath they all swore to protect the Constitution.

[DeminPennswoods]

18. Bannon proposed raising taxes on the rich

a big no-no with the GOP.

[NastyRiffraff]

19. Trump is stuck with Bannon

one way or another. He knows too much and he won't hesitate to turn against Trump if he's fired. He has no loyalty, to anyone or anything.

[wishstar]

21. Only way he leaves is if he retains top campaign manager role rather than being in WH

so he can arrange campaign events and continue writing Trump's awful campaign speeches and continue directing the right week fake distraction media stories- paid by Mercers rather than on WH payroll

[EllieBC]

22. Won't happen. "The Base" will lose their minds if Bannon is kicked out.

His power may be diminished by Kelly but he won't be booted.