BIngo Bango, bye-bye Bannon

Friday, Aug 18, 2017 3:06 PM EDT
Steve Bannon’s revenge: Breitbart News and other conservatives swiftly declare “war” on Donald Trump
Trump was reportedly afraid to fire Steve Bannon, now we'll find out if those fears were justified
Matthew Sheffield

As with many senior advisers of President Donald Trump, leaks about Steve Bannon’s impending firing were in the news for months. More recently, several outlets reported that Trump had been reluctant to remove his nationalist adviser from his post because he was afraid of what Bannon and his allies might do in retaliation.

“The president obviously is very nervous and afraid of firing him,” a White House insider told Reuters earlier this week. As Trump’s popularity tanks, he could be hesitant to alienate his hard-right base by firing one of their own.

Conservative groups are not taking the forced departure of Trump’s White House chief strategist lightly. After the news was broken by conservative powerhouse Matt Drudge on Friday, many on the right reacted angrily.

Bannon’s ouster was not on “friendly” terms, according to CBS reporter Margaret Brennan:

"I'm told through my reporting that it wasn't quite so friendly," @margbrennan says of Steve Bannon's WH ouster https://t.co/FAzTpNV2eM pic.twitter.com/ck9ZOdYlXC

— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 18, 2017

Before Bannon was ousted, many conservatives issued public and private warnings that they would be displeased with such an outcome. As the Washington Times reported, a large group of conservative organizations issued a letter urging the White House to keep Bannon, along with fellow White House adviser Kellyanne Conway.


When the word broke on Friday, many Trump fans took to Twitter to blast the decision. Senior Breitbart editor Joel Pollack was among them, declaring “war” and saying that the president was on the path to becoming a liberal now.

#WAR

— Joel B. Pollak (@joelpollak) August 18, 2017

Breitbart editor declares war following Bannon's exit, then Twitter does its thing: pic.twitter.com/SbwhZdWGsL

— Alex Kantrowitz (@Kantrowitz) August 18, 2017

With Steve Bannon Gone, Donald Trump Risks Becoming Arnold Schwarzenegger 2.0 – Breitbart https://t.co/7StOUgXiL7

— Joel B. Pollak (@joelpollak) August 18, 2017

http://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/898594783735697411

The Swamp Strikes Back – Steve Bannon Out!

— Mark Dice (@MarkDice) August 18, 2017

STEVE BANNON OUT! Media is the most powerful branch of government.

— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) August 18, 2017

If @realDonaldTrump didn't like the media giving Steve Bannon all credit, instead of firing him, he should've hired 10 more like him.

— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) August 18, 2017

Now that he’s departing the White House, Bannon is expected to return to Breitbart, the publication he ran before formally joining up with Trump in 2016. Once safely ensconced within his old haunts, he may pursue a feud against Drudge, his one-time ally, according to a Buzzfeed report:

Sources who have spoken to Bannon say the nationalist firebrand is expected to return to his old news site Breitbart. And one person close to Bannon says he has his eye on who he believes helped accelerate his ouster: Matt Drudge.

“Matt Drudge worked to remove Steve Bannon, that is the reality,” said former Trump campaign adviser Sam Nunberg, who regularly talks with Bannon. “And I hope Matt is happy because his work helped Bannon not be in the West Wing, but it helped Democrats and people that didn’t vote for Trump be in the West Wing.”

Nunberg is specifically frustrated with the continued presence and influence of chief economic adviser Gary Cohn, National Security Adviser HR McMaster, and the duo he derisively calls Javanka, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. Bannon has openly feuded with Cohn, and Breitbart has for weeks been waging a battle against McMaster.

Kushner developed a relationship with Drudge dating back to the campaign, and Bannon allies also blame the son-in-law for his ouster. People close to Bannon say Bannon privately hoped Kushner would “go down” over the intensifying Russia investigation.


Former Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro previewed what a White House war with Breitbart and Bannon may play out on Friday:

Bannon is deeply vengeful, and supremely ambitious. He has already held the most powerful job he will ever have — unless, of course, his new job is to destroy Trump from the outside. And he set the groundwork for that job over the past week.

[…]

Bannon’s play for Trump’s populist and alt-right bases will be partially successful. Outside the White House, Bannon can be more powerful than he was inside: if Trump doesn’t do what Bannon likes, Bannon will declare that he was ousted because the globalist insiders have taken over, and Trump has sold out the base. Bannon will attempt to claim the leadership of the movement he believes he built.
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http://www.salon.com/2017/08/18/ste...rvatives-swiftly-declare-war-on-donald-trump/



This is going to be fun. Bannon way overplayed his importance, and Trump couldn't stand that.
 
Perfection said:
Going to war for Trump not against him.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-18/bannon-says-he-s-going-to-war-for-trump-after-white-house-exit?utm_content=politics&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&cmpid==socialflow-twitter-politics
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While Trump (at this moment) might not be the target, his already floundering and ineffective administration will be. The biggest burr under Bannon/Breitbart's saddle at the moment is that despite all Bannon's leaking and a daily rant from Breitbart they couldn't get McMaster fired. Expect the first battle of the war to be an absolute no holds barred McMaster must go or there will be fire in the streets campaign from Breitbart. What has been missing is Bannon's direct hand in the writing at Breitbart. That toilet will be swirling again almost immediately.
 
Bannon was a nobody. Leaving the white house, he remains a nobody. He is not the cause of your typing; his exile will not be the end of your typing.
 
Perfection said:
An even circusier circus
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But to someone looking in, this circus has been nothing but a circus. America is letting white nationalists dictate the national conversation and Trump is still pretty secure in his office. Non-Westerners used to think that the former was a European thing. Now the USA is leading the charge. All the sound and fury and things have only continued to go backwards. Sad!
 
Perfection said:
Going to war for Trump not against him.
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He's going to war for what the Trump presidency means . . . to Bannon.

On his way out the door, he declared the Trump presidency (which he, Bannon, engineered), over.

He's not going to be warring for Trump per se, but for his own idea of what Trump's presidency was supposed to be about.

That only corresponds in relatively small measure with what Trump thinks the Trump presidency is supposed to be about.

So Breitbart's efforts will be a pressure on Trump as much as any kind of service of him.
 
uppi said:
You mean the presidency is supposed to be about something else than a giant ego-trip for Trump?
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It is for the people who put so much effort into backing him. Trump is supposed to "take the country back" for them. Which means taking the country away from all the people who aren't just like them. But they didn't calculate in that Trump can't stand to share the spotlight with anyone, and that he's highly unstable in general. So he wouldn't be the good little puppet they wanted.
 
According to a BBC article I read this week (and which now I can't locate), there are four things which make Trump angry - being criticised, contradicted, seemingly being lied to and one other I've can't remember. I'd have thought that people grow out of the first two by adulthood, let alone 50 years later still.
 
Naskra said:
Bannon was a nobody. Leaving the white house, he remains a nobody. He is not the cause of your typing; his exile will not be the end of your typing.
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When Pence replaces Trump, the typing will be just as shrill. But that will be the normal culture war, and will be about the normal things we get so angry about.

Trump really is a special type of awful. The world is full of cat people arguing with dog people about how we structure society for our pets. And the alt-Right was insisting that their senile raccoon with a bowel-disorder is actually a pet that deserves a seat at the table and that we should mold ourselves around taking care of them.

We'll get rid of the demented, fanged animal that craps everywhere, and we'll go back to arguing whether dogs need leashes and whether the cat was pooping in my garden.
 
looks to me like Bannon had to leave, Trump's sending more soldiers into war and part of the base wont be happy... Bannon couldn't stay, but he's not publicly resigning over the policy change
 
Hey it's not a circus, it's more like apprentice reruns, just firing everybody. #thecobra #you'refired
 
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