Bannon: The Trump presidency is 'over'

[highplainsdem]

Source: The Hill

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is declaring the impact of the Trump presidency "over."

“The Trump presidency that we fought for, and won, is over,” he told the Weekly Standard on Friday. “We still have a huge movement, and we will make something of this Trump presidency. But that presidency is over."

In an interview with the conservative outlet, Bannon said President Trump's administration would "be much more conventional" in the wake of his departure.

Bannon said his absence from the White House will likely make it “much harder” for Trump to pave a way forward on issues like “economic nationalism and immigration.”

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Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/347182-bannon-the-trump-presidency-is-over

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Actual link to primary source, not secondary filter

http://www.weeklystandard.com/bannon-the-trump-presidency-that-we-fought-for-and-won-is-over./article/2009355

Primary sources are recommended.

[laserhaas]

3. Many out there...posting police

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/08/18/steve-bannon-fired-trump-presidency-we-fought-for-and-won-over/582094001/

Posting Briebart etc., is also frowned upon;
which encourages alt source

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. You just posted another secondary filter. "pisting" much?

Even hard right sites are allowed when it is primary information that is useful and informative to DU readers, such as the direct interview, unfiltered by others. Even so, Weekly Standard is not hard right.

It's in the Terms of Service. Worth reading.

[janx]

6. Thanks--

again!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. You're welcome, janx. . . . nt

[laserhaas]

2. Yup! The Dominos are starting to fall

The party is over (hopefully, the GOP Party)

[AlexSFCA]

4. it could be a provocation to push trump harder to the right

[Sunlei]

8. Republicans will drag out their terrorist RWing when they need their votes again.

[ginnyinWI]

9. Like he's doing anything now?

Zero minus zero equals zero.

[Rural_Progressive]

10. Everyone repeat after me

There are more of us than there are of them.
There are more of us than there are of them.
There are more of us than there are of them.
There are more of us than there are of them.
There are more of us than there are of them.
There are more of us than there are of them.
There are more of us than there are of them.
There are more of us than there are of them.

Repeat as needed

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. The US is liberal & progressive. Gerrymandering, voter suppression & collusion stop this showing in

Gerrymandering, voter suppression & collusion stop the American predominant liberalism and progressivism from showing up in a majority of elections.

[Rural_Progressive]

16. No. that's an exucuse

If all of the liberal and progressive people in this country showed up, in spite of "Gerrymandering, voter suppression & collusion" we would prevail.

That's the truth. Hopefully what has happened has gotten enough people's attention that they'll show up in the necessary numbers.

[HopeAgain]

11. This split could hurt both

This part of the base could end up having to choose between the two, splitting them in half. Trump still has the Fox news people who don't read Breitbart and the hardcore Breitbarts weren't completely sold on Trump.

Plus, everybody knows how easy Trump is to distract with a pissing match.

[Curtis]

12. I don't buy it

This all seems to be theater for the masses so more people will look and say, week he got rid of Bannon so Trump ain't that bad. It's all theater people.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. Theater? Bring it! More theater like this. Trump is running out of stooges. He's maybe 6 Senators

Trump is maybe only six Senators away from being convicted in the Senate if articles of impeachment are brought from the House.

The Trump (Republican) Presidency is crumbling.

No more judicial confirmations. This is the last year of the Trump (Republican) Presidency.

The only people in tRump's inner circle he hasn't fired are Pence and himself — and he can't fire Pence:

[Curtis]

19. I'll go with everything you said

I just think this Bannon thing is a theatrical attempt for him to save face, which he can't do.

[Thomas Hurt]

15. Meh, the arrogant prick is just saying that the "presidency" that inhabited his...

paranoiac fantasies will not happen because he is not there to hold Donnie's hand.

Also Donnie is quite capable, as we have seen, of being a complete fascist whackjob.

[C Moon]

17. And the trash that Trump loaded into his cabinet

...are leaving with WAY too much sensitive information.
That's scary, I think.

[flibbitygiblets]

18. I see this as a taunt to Donnie: "You owe me; do what I say or else!"

And that's not going to go over well; no one tells tRump what to do (except Pootie, of course).

Bannon seems to be under the mistaken impression that the Trump Admin was actually en route to getting anything done legislatively.

[Kennah]

20. Only a death match between Bannon and Trump can settle this (n/t)

[SWBTATTReg]

21. and why are we even paying attention to either of these 2 f***s?

Whatever they say is worthless or a lie.

[Canoe52]

22. Thinks highly of himself, he does.

[physioex]

23. He's got a Sugar Daddy....EOM

[FakeNoose]

24. Reading between the lines

Bannon isn't rooting for the end of Donald Trump's presidency.

I think Bannon will do everything he can to keep Cheeto in the White House. So this is not any kind of split between them, but Bannon is just deflecting as much as he can. Once the spotlight is off of him he'll be able to get a lot more nasty stuff done to help Trump hang onto the Presidency.

This quote here is saying that Trump will tone down his rhetoric, and become more what the Republicans want him to be (whatever that is.) The nasty shit will continue - through Bannon - but not at the White House.

The investigation by Robert Mueller has pretty much stayed away from Bannon (so far.) I think he wants to steer clear of all of that but there's no reason to believe that Bannon's hands are clean. He's probably complicit with the Russians, just like all the Trumps are.