Bannon Gets Boot From White House
And Boom the Dead Pool has been activated again and Steve Bannon the Chief Strategist to the President has been removed from his post by President Trump. Details and facts are murky coming out as Bannon’s people are saying he submitted his resignation, but either way it has been confirmed he is no longer a member of the President’s administration.
First of all this is another victory for Steve of Whiskey Congress as he predicted on the most recent episode of Whiskey Congress that Bannon was on his way out, and earlier episodes where Jim had picked Jeff Sessions.
While some see this as a victory for the left and non-Alt-Right supporters, its only the beginning. While Bannon may no longer have direct access to the president, he will most likely return to Breitbart where he will have a massive audience to focus his energy on. I suspect he will be rather gracious to the President, and will still champion a nationalist agenda that energizes the alt-right and similar groups.
The question is what direction does Trump go. Does he double down on Bannon’s agenda claiming it as his own to satisfy his base, or does he move more to the center and bring back his party and those in the middle that have been wary of him since the campaign.
Top presidential adviser and white nationalist bomb-thrower Steve Bannon is out of a White House job, a new report said Friday.
President Trump’s chief of staff John Kelly wrapped up a review of the West Wing staff and was expected to can the former Breitbart editor, the voice of the alt-right who has the president’s ear, Drudge reported.
“Bannon had one hell of a run,” Matt Drudge tweeted.
Bannon had been on the outs with Trump before, but the president now suspects he was one of the main leakers in the administration, trashing his colleagues in the press.
The notoriously thin-skinned president also resented the publicity Bannon had been getting as the supposed mastermind of Trump’s campaign and upset victory.
One White House source told Axios, “His departure may seem turbulent in the media, but inside it will be very smooth. He has no projects or responsibilities to hand off.”
Bannon in recent days gave interviews to publications including the New York Times in which he defended Trump’s controversial comments in the wake of the racial violence in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend.
A source close to Bannon added: “This week is a good window into what Bannon outside the [White House] would look like: A strong defense of POTUS and ‘fire and fury’ for enemies of the Trump agenda. Get ready for Bannon the barbarian.”
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Steve is an affordable multifamily housing professional that is also the co-founder of Whiskey Congress. Steve has written for national publications such as The National Marijuana News and other outlets as a guest blogger on topics covering sports, politics, and cannabis. Steve loves whiskey, cigars, and uses powerlifting as an outlet to deal with the fact that no one listens to his brilliant ideas.
