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Chief strategist Steve Bannon exits Trump White House
RT,
18
August, 2017
Former
Breitbart executive Steve Bannon is the latest casualty of White
House power struggles. US President Donald Trump’s chief strategist
has departed at the urging of the chief of staff, retired General
John Kelly.
Kelly
and Bannon “have mutually agreed today would be Steve’s last
day,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a
statement. “We are grateful for his service and wish him the best.”
JUST IN: White House on Bannon: "John Kelly and Steve Bannon have mutually agreed today would be Steve's last day." http://abcn.ws/2w9uoQR
Bannon
joined the Trump presidential campaign as chief executive in August
2016, and went on to become President Trump’s “chief strategist,”
a position created specifically for him, while former GOP chairman
Reince Priebus was appointed chief of staff.
The
president’s critics have called for Bannon’s removal almost from
the very beginning, accusing the former Breitbart News chief
executive of being a racist, white supremacist, and Islamophobe.
I can tell you this, firing Bannon was never part of Trump's plan. Great work to everyone in #TheResistance!
Now back to #ImpeachTrump!
Bannon
is a former US Navy officer who worked at Goldman Sachs in the 1980s
and was one of the founders of Breitbart, a conservative news outlet.
Earlier
this week, when reporters asked Trump about Bannon and his alleged
support for white nationalism, Trump called him a friend.
“He
is not a racist, I can tell you that. He’s a good person,” Trump
said at a press conference on Tuesday. “I think the press treats
him very unfairly.”
It
was the same phrasing he used about his former national security
adviser, General Michael Flynn, who resigned under media pressure in
February.
'Economic war with China is everything' – Trump’s chief strategist Steve #Bannon in candid interview https://on.rt.com/8km6
On
Wednesday, the left-leaning publication American Prospect published
an interview in which Bannon talked about the US “trade war” with
China and dismissed the prospects of military confrontation with
North Korea. Bannon also described white nationalists as “losers”
and “a fringe element” that needs to be crushed.
A
number of conservatives sent an a letter to Trump endorsing Bannon on
Friday morning, the Washington Times reported.
“While
others may come and go in the White House, we feel sure that with
Steve and Kellyanne at your side, you will always hear the voices of
those of us who have supported you through thick and thin, despite
the efforts by some to ‘manage’ you and your message,” said the
letter, signed by the leaders of Tea Party Patriots, Americans for
Limited Government, UrbanCure, the American Family Association,
ConservativeHQ.com, and the Center for Security Policy.
Bannon
is the latest casualty of the purge of Trump’s senior staff that
began in late July with the departure of press secretary Sean Spicer,
followed by Priebus and communications director Anthony Scaramucci,
who was on the job for only 11 days.
Kelly,
a retired Marine who previously headed the Department of Homeland
Security, was appointed the new chief of staff to “restore order,”
according to reporters covering the White House.
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