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Bannon Out: What You Really Need To Know
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In
this video, Luke Rudkowski of WeAreChange gives you the latest
breaking news on Steve Bannon who was reportedly fired from the White
House. We talked with Lee Stranaham former lead investigative
journalist for Breitbart who was personally hired by Steve Bannon but
now works for http://thepopulist.us/
Bannon Speaks: "I'm Going To War For Trump"
18
August, 2017
Update:
that was quick. As Breitbart's Charlie Spiering reports, Bannon jas
returned to Breitbart News as Executive Chairman of Breitbart News
"and chaired our evening editorial meeting"
Siren Steve Bannon returned to Breitbart News as Executive Chairman of Breitbart News and chaired our evening editorial meeting
As
The Hill adds, Bannon reclaimed the title of Breitbart's executive
chairman and directed the outlet’s Friday editorial meeting, the
website said in a statement on Friday.
“The
populist-nationalist movement got a lot stronger today,” said
Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow. “Breitbart gained an
executive chairman with his finger on the pulse of the Trump agenda.
As
chairman, Bannon oversaw massive growth of the populist website
before leaving to be chairman of Trump’s campaign. Bannon never
settled into his role as chief strategist in the White House, where
he feuded bitterly with ideological rivals like Trump’s son-in-law
Jared Kushner, economic adviser Gary Cohn and national security
adviser H.R. McMaster.
Breitbart
eagerly accepted Bannon back into the fold. “Breitbart’s pace of
global expansion will only accelerate with Steve back,” said
Breitbart president Larry Solov. “The sky’s the limit.”
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While
Breitbart has warned of war 'against' Trump - should he break from
the policies upon which he was elected - former White House Chief
Strategist Steve Bannon has spoken for the first time since being
fired today.
In
an interview with Bloomberg, Bannon said he was "going to war"
for Trump...
“If
there’s any confusion out there, let me clear it up.
I’m
leaving the White House and going to war for Trump against his
opponents... on Capitol Hill, in the media, and in corporate
America,”
So,
war it is!
Presumably,
being outside The White House allows him more freedom to pursue his
tactics. The question is - given the narrative being spun is he
resigned by mutual agreement - does Bannon stil have Trump's ear? And
if so, will Cohn, Kelly, and Kushner stand for it? We already knowhis agenda is anything but in line with theirs.
Notably
The White House formally launched a probe of China's intellectual
property practices tonight - invoking Section 301 just as Bannon had
said.
With
regard his internal adversaries, at the departments of State and
Defense, who think the United States can enlist Beijing’s aid on
the North Korean standoff, and at Treasury and the National Economic
Council who don’t want to mess with the trading system, Bannon was
ever harsher...
“Oh,
they’re wetting themselves,” he said, explaining that the Section
301 complaint, which was put on hold when the war of threats with
North Korea broke out, was shelved only temporarily, and will be
revived in three weeks.
As for other cabinet departments, Bannon has
big plans to marginalize their influence.
“That’s
a fight I fight every day here,” he said. “We’re still
fighting. There’s Treasury and [National Economic Council chair]
Gary Cohn and Goldman Sachs lobbying.”
“We
gotta do this. The president’s default position is to do it, but
the apparatus is going crazy. Don’t get me wrong. It’s like,
every day.”
Bannon
dismissed the far-right as irrelevant:
“Ethno-nationalism—it's
losers. It's a fringe element. I think the media plays it up too
much, and we gotta help crush it, you know, uh, help crush it more.”
“These
guys are a collection of clowns,” he added.
And
finally, Bannon scoffed at The Democrats...
“...the
longer they talk about identity politics, I got ’em. I want them to
talk about racism every day. If the left is focused on race and
identity, and we go with economic nationalism, we can crush the
Democrats.”
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Kurt
Bardella, a Republican communications specialist who worked for
Bannon at Breitbart but later denounced him, predicts the strategist
would "feel liberated" by his departure.
"Now,
he will be able to operate openly and freely to inflict as much
damage as he possibly can on the ‘globalists’ that remain in the
Trump Administration."
"They're Going Thermonuclear": Breitbart Declares "War" On The White House
18
August, 2017
The
love affair between Breitbart, whose former head Steve Bannon was
just fired by Donald Trump, just turned to hate, as confirmed by Joel
Pollak, a Breitbart Editor, who moments ago tweeted one word:
As
Axios' Jonathan Swan explains, "Joel is a Breitbart editor.
They're going thermonuclear, I'm told. "
Joel is a Breitbart editor. They're going thermonuclear, I'm told. Story tk on Axios. twitter.com/joelpollak/sta…
Separately,
as iBankCoin reports, investigative journalist and former Breitbart
employee, Lee Stranahan, offered a quick quip on today’s news that
Bannon has resigned from the White House, suggesting that Steve would
‘unleash the beast’ through his online publication and call out
those working against the Trump agenda in the White House.
Dear @POTUS :
You have not yet figured out who your real enemies in the White House are. Best of luck without Bannon. #FireMcMaster
You have not yet figured out who your real enemies in the White House are. Best of luck without Bannon. #FireMcMaster
Stranahan
has been a long time loyalist to Bannon and ardent opponent to
several people inside Trump’s White House, namely McMaster, Powell
and Cohn. The theory he’s putting forth is that Bannon will have
more power outside the White House than inside. While that might be
true for Steve, I fail to see how fomenting more internal strife
inside the Trump White House will be constructive at this point.
Nevertheless,
it’s about to get real interesting soon. Watch
Asfor what Steve Bannon's next steps would be, Axios reports that it
"will be all about the billionaire Mercer family."
I'm
told Bannon, who visited New York this week, met with Bob Mercer and
together they will be a well-funded force on the outside.
Bannon
has felt liberated since it became clear he was being pushed out,
according to friends. He's told associates he has a "killing
machine" in Breitbart News, and it's possible he returns to lead
their editorial operation.
A
source familiar with Breitbart's operations told me they would go
"thermonuclear" against "globalists" that Bannon
and his friends believe are ruining the Trump administration, and by
extension, America.
Watch
for Breitbart's Washington Editor Matt Boyle to be a central figure
in this war — which has already begun — against White House
officials like HR McMaster, Dina Powell, Gary Cohn, and Jared and
Ivanka.
Then
again, Trump may be spared. As Politico's Robert Costa tweets, "One
theme I'm picking up: Bannon believes next battle is *not* w/ Trump
but w/ Kushner/Cohn/Dina/HR McMaster. "Save Trump," as one
R put it."
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