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On Politico Steve Bannon’s disappearing act
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Bannon’s internal retreat has coincided with distance from other White House aides — most surprisingly Miller, a personal and ideological ally of many years. The two are “no longer working together in any substantive way,” according to a top White House aide.

Miller has followed a divergent path, integrating himself into the White House’s staff and building a strong relationship with less-ideological figures like McMaster and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, with whom he has developed an increasingly close relationship as the two have collaborated on dozens of presidential speeches and policy initiatives.

Kushner and Bannon, by contrast, have a rocky relationship that bottomed in April when the Daily Beast reported that Bannon had described Kushner as a “globalist” and a “cuck” who was “trying to shiv him and push him out the door.”

One White House aide said Kushner’s embrace of Miller has been fueled in large part by Kushner’s desire to further isolate Bannon. A spokesman for Kushner declined to comment.

But no one threatens Bannon’s job security more than the man whose winning campaign he managed, particularly now that Bannon is back in the headlines thanks to the publication this week of Bloomberg Businessweek reporter Joshua Green’s book, “The Devil’s Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency,” which depicts Bannon as a driving force behind Trump’s campaign and the early stages of his administration.

The president is "livid" about the book, according to the Washington-based insider, who said that he is "back to giving Bannon the cold shoulder" as a result.

Bannon, said the same source, is simply exhausted: "He doesn't look well."
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Steve Bannon: the wilderness weeks.
 
Bizarre stuff

White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has given an unusual interview in which he claimed there was no military solution for North Korea, the far right was a “collection of clowns” and the left’s focus on racism would allow him to “crush the Democrats”.

Bannon, who has been called the mastermind behind Donald Trump’s nationalist agenda, made the controversial and unsolicited remarks to Robert Kuttner, co-founder and co-editor of the American Prospect, a leftwing political magazine, in an interview published Wednesday....
Steve Bannon brands far right 'losers' and contradicts Trump in surprise interview
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I think he might have a point, in that maybe they (the ones with the nazi flags and the stupid costumes on) are basically "a collection of clowns" and if they get to dominate the headlines and everyone's energy for the next couple of years that might serve people like Bannon quite well in the longer term.

'Regarding the Democrats, Bannon said: “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.”
 
bimble said:
I think he might have a point, in that maybe they (the ones with the nazi flags and the stupid costumes on) are basically "a collection of clowns" and if they get to dominate the headlines and everyone's energy for the next couple of years that might serve people like Bannon quite well in the longer term.

'Regarding the Democrats, Bannon said: “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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You can't help but smell a big fat rodent when Bannon calls up out of the blue a journo he's never spoken to before who writes for a left wing magazine. He may be trying to deflect some media flak from Trump or he may have some other agenda of his own if reports about a distancing between him and Trump are true, but you can't take anything he says at face value.
 
"Steve Bannon has resigned from his role as White House chief strategist, ABC News has learned.".
Pushed or sacked, good.
 
bimble said:
"Steve Bannon has resigned from his role as White House chief strategist, ABC News has learned.".
Pushed or sacked, good.
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Makes sense that Bannon gave that interview to the American Prospect in which he was actually far more reasonable sounding on Charlottesville than Trump, he must have known it was coming.
 
Trump doesn't need Bannon anymore as a way of securing any Breitbart-reading hard right base, he's said everything necessary to win their loyalty himself this past week.
 
bimble said:
"Steve Bannon has resigned from his role as White House chief strategist, ABC News has learned.".
Pushed or sacked, good.
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I hope his liver leapt up through his throat and strangled his brain, before using his blackened cinder of a heart as a punching bag.
 
Breitbart saying he decided to resign ages ago:
"A person close to Mr. Bannon insisted the parting of ways was his idea, and that he had submitted his resignation to the president on Aug. 7, to be announced at the start of this week, but it was delayed in the wake of the racial unrest in Charlottesville, Va.."

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bimble said:
Trump doesn't need Bannon anymore as a way of securing any Breitbart-reading hard right base, he's said everything necessary to win their loyalty himself this past week.
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It is worth pointing out that the only difference between Bannon most weeks and Bannon this week was that this week he called the alt-right "losers".
 
agricola said:
It is worth pointing out that the only difference between Bannon most weeks and Bannon this week was that this week he called the alt-right "losers".
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He also (same interview) took the piss out of Trump's bombast re NK, undermining and contradicting the Boss.
 
He has a loyal and currently very outraged following on his old website, who are right now banging their keyboards in fury asking how trump could have betrayed them like this, but whether there's anything you could do with that lot is another question.
 
'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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J Ed said:
Why? Trump is bad because he is Trump, not because of the people around him.
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Bannon being Chief Strategist scared me a lot more than trump being president, because Bannon has ideas ideology and aims that i find repugnant and frightening, Trump hasn't got any of those encumberances far as I can see.
Also a good day because I'm enjoying seeing who is suffering at the news.
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Chief strategist is just a phrase. If you think anyone other than Trump tacking and pulling towards whoever he happens to see as friends at this or that point in time is happening - even with Bannon - is what's going on then you're wrong. Bannon might have the vision to break the democrats but he is nothing without trump.
 
You think he'll disappear (back) into obscurity. I hope so. Would take a huge amount of funding to do anything else.
 
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