Bannon: Trump ‘Insurgency’ Forces McConnell To Up Game
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has suggested Republicans fear Donald Trump’s “insurgency” because it will rid the party of its “cronies.” The Breitbart executive chair also commented in a Sunday radio interview with John Catsimatidis he believed his grassroots movement had prompted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to “up his game” over issues […]
Steve Bannon Praises Islam in New Book
Steve Bannon now says he’s OK with Islam. The Breitbart leader and former Trump strategist praises Islam in a new book about his life, despite criticizing the religion for years and helping put the man who called for a Muslim ban in the White House. Even so, Bannon likens radical Islam to communism and says […]
Why is Bannon Out As Trump’s Strategist?
White House chief political strategist Steve Bannon is reportedly no longer occupying his senior position in President Donald Trump’s administration, according to reports by The New York Times and ABC News. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders released aa statement saying that Bannon and Chief of Staff John Kelly had “mutually agreed” Friday would […]
Who is Steve Bannon? Trump Strategist Gone
In a White House defined by chaos, tumult and turnover, Steve Bannon became the latest person to depart President Donald Trump’s team Friday afternoon. The New York Times reported he was on his way out, writing that two unnamed officials said Trump “told senior aides that he has decided to remove” Bannon from the key […]
Steve Bannon is out after critics spent months calling for his firing
White House aide Stephen Bannon is out of the White House, reports Reuters. BREAKING: Trump tells aides he has decided to remove Stephen Bannon as chief strategist: @NYTimes https://t.co/GU7soleIU7 pic.twitter.com/zdtTOebZQ9 Watch the video — Reuters Top News (@Reuters) August 18, 2017 Conservative blogger Matt Drudge tweeted that Bannon had “one hell of a run.” “We […]
Why Bannon Won’t Condemn the Charlottesville Violence
By Monday evening, the paroxysm of extremist violence at a Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, had been condemned by President Donald J. Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, not to mention a coalition of congressional Republicans and Democrats that included both conservative Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Vermont socialist […]
Pope advisors attack Trump’s aide Steve Bannon and US religious right
Rome (dpa) – Donald Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon and Christian extremists that have sided with the US president have a dangerously “fundamentalist” world view, according to two confidantes of Pope Francis. In a Sunday comment on Italian daily La Repubblica, church historian Alberto Melloni said the papal aides have laid bare “an unprecedented conflict” […]
Breitbart News, Donald Trump’s Pravda, Is in Crisis
Close Earlier this year, reporter Lee Stranahan was in the White House press room when another journalist asked him which outlet he worked for. “Breitbart News,” Stranahan answered, recalling the exchange in a recent phone conversation. The other journalist laughed, thinking this had to be a joke. Breitbart, after all, was largely known, whether justly […]
Steve Bannon dropped from National Security Council
Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump’s chief strategist, has lost his seat on the powerful National Security Council (NSC) in a high-level shakeup, US officials said on Wednesday. Trump’s elevation of Bannon to a permanent spot on the NSC had been widely criticised as injecting politics into White House deliberations on sensitive defence, foreign policy, and […]
Does Bannon’s Rhetoric Make America Less Safe?
An expert on jihadists says recent comments by chief White House political strategist Stephen Bannon apparently has refocused militants’ attention on the United States, raising danger levels, Think Progress reported Wednesday. Bannon’s picture wound up on the front page of al Qaeda-affiliated al Masra, which highlighted his negative remarks on Islam and nationalist policies that […]