Courtesy of the New York Times:
President Trump has told senior aides that he has decided to remove Stephen K. Bannon, the embattled White House chief strategist who helped Mr. Trump win the 2016 election, according to two administration officials briefed on the discussion.
The president and senior White House officials were debating when and how to dismiss Mr. Bannon. The two administration officials cautioned that Mr. Trump is known to be averse to confrontation within his inner circle, and could decide to keep on Mr. Bannon for some time.
As of Friday morning, the two men were still discussing Mr. Bannon’s future, the officials said. 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.
Mr. Bannon had clashed for months with other senior West Wing advisers and members of the president’s family.
Wait, Bannon submitted his resignation on August the 7th?
Does that mean his weird whack-a-doodle interview with the American Prospect reporter was just a way to force Trump's hand and make him accept the resignation?
Now we just need to start betting on how long it will be before Breitbart starts slamming Donald Trump once Bannon returns as its editor in chief.
My guess is almost immediately. But only subtly at first.
Update: Here's an interesting tweet from Robert Costa.
Bannon saw both Palin and Trump as figureheads for pushing his racist, hate filled, isolationist agenda.
President Trump has told senior aides that he has decided to remove Stephen K. Bannon, the embattled White House chief strategist who helped Mr. Trump win the 2016 election, according to two administration officials briefed on the discussion.
The president and senior White House officials were debating when and how to dismiss Mr. Bannon. The two administration officials cautioned that Mr. Trump is known to be averse to confrontation within his inner circle, and could decide to keep on Mr. Bannon for some time.
As of Friday morning, the two men were still discussing Mr. Bannon’s future, the officials said. 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.
Mr. Bannon had clashed for months with other senior West Wing advisers and members of the president’s family.
Wait, Bannon submitted his resignation on August the 7th?
Does that mean his weird whack-a-doodle interview with the American Prospect reporter was just a way to force Trump's hand and make him accept the resignation?
Now we just need to start betting on how long it will be before Breitbart starts slamming Donald Trump once Bannon returns as its editor in chief.
My guess is almost immediately. But only subtly at first.
Update: Here's an interesting tweet from Robert Costa.
Bannon saw both Palin and Trump as figureheads for pushing his racist, hate filled, isolationist agenda.
And he was right, either one would have been just as easy as the other to manipulate.Looking back at my notes from Aug 22, 2011, it's clear Bannon saw Palin as a way of elevating his ideas... and later saw Trump the same way.— Robert Costa (@costareports) August 18, 2017
