Bannon in limbo as Trump faces growing calls for the strategist's ouster
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[url]https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/us/politics/steve-bannon-trump-white-house.html[/url]
[quote]Rupert Murdoch has repeatedly urged President Trump to fire him. Anthony Scaramucci, the president’s former communications director, thrashed him on television as a white nationalist. Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, the national security adviser, refused to even say he could work with him.
For months, Mr. Trump has considered ousting Stephen K. Bannon, the White House chief strategist and relentless nationalist who ran the Breitbart website and called it a “platform for the alt-right.” Mr. Trump has now relegated Mr. Bannon to a kind of internal exile, and has not met face-to-face for more than a week with a man who was once a fixture in the Oval Office, according to aides and friends of the president.
So far, Mr. Trump has not been able to follow through — a product of his dislike of confrontation, the bonds of foxhole friendship forged during the 2016 presidential campaign and concerns about what mischief Mr. Bannon might do once he leaves the protective custody of the West Wing.
Not least, Mr. Bannon still embodies the defiant populism at the core of the president’s agenda. Despite his marginalization, Mr. Bannon consulted the president repeatedly over the weekend as Mr. Trump struggled to respond to the neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Va. In general, Mr. Bannon has cautioned the president not to criticize far-right activists too severely for fear of antagonizing a small but energetic part of his base.
But what once endeared him to the president has now become a major liability. After the president waited two days to blame white supremacists for the violence in Charlottesville, there is new pressure from Mr. Trump’s critics to dismiss Mr. Bannon.[/quote]
How highly raised must the bus be for how many people Trump's tossed under it at this rate?
How long until Trump is the only remaining man in the White House?
[QUOTE]Not least, Mr. Bannon still embodies the defiant populism at the core of the president’s agenda. Despite his marginalization, Mr. Bannon consulted the president repeatedly over the weekend as Mr. Trump struggled to respond to the neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Va. [B]In general, Mr. Bannon has cautioned the president not to criticize far-right activists too severely for fear of antagonizing a small but energetic part of his[/B][/QUOTE]
[I]This motherfucking guy...[/I]
If anything, at least, it's good that enough people were pressuring the president to directly respond anyways.
[QUOTE=Uber22;52573581]How long until Pence is the only remaining man in the White House?[/QUOTE]
Fixed that for you.
[QUOTE=Uber22;52573581]How long until Trump is the only remaining man in the White House?[/QUOTE]
I don't think the babysitters - Mattis and Kelly - are going anywhere.
go to hell, bannon
[QUOTE=RikohZX;52573565]How highly raised must the bus be for how many people Trump's tossed under it at this rate?[/QUOTE]
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[quote]In general, Mr. Bannon has cautioned the president not to criticize far-right activists too severely for fear of antagonizing a small but energetic part of his base.[/quote]
Jesus, that explains all the tapdancing around it and it makes perfect sense coming from Bannon. The President is way too easily influenced, and Bannon won't be the last person to manipulate him, but I'll be glad to see him go.
Bannon is the one who's ACTUALLY evil.
he belongs in the darkest corner of hell. though, judging by his skin, it looks like he's been there before.
Not going to lie, every time I read Bannon's name anymore, this just comes to mind.
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The part at 9:38
[QUOTE=milktree;52573934]Bannon is the one who's ACTUALLY evil.
he belongs in the darkest corner of hell. though, judging by his skin, it looks like he's been there before.[/QUOTE]
Bannon looks as if he sleeps under a table and subsists on toenails
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