EPISODE · Jan 10, 2018 · 42 MIN
Steve Bannon Replaced
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Steve Bannon was replaced as executive chairman of Breitbart News Network on Tuesday, ending his relationship with the far-right website that he helped become widely influential and that in turn abetted his rise as a political adviser and would-be kingmaker.Bannon’s departure — just days after his public criticisms of former White House colleagues led to a spectacular falling-out with President Trump and his allies — was a humbling denouement for a figure who had reached the uppermost levels of power only a year ago. It leaves him with no evident platform to promote his views and no major financial backer for his preferred candidates.His departure from Breitbart followed what appears to have been a vote of no confidence from a key supporter and investor in the website, Rebekah Mercer, Mercer’s ire by making critical comments about Trump and his family to author Michael Wolff in a book, Bannon is quoted as saying that Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, engaged in “treasonous” behavior by secretly meeting with Russian representatives during the campaign to get unflattering information about Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton.“The groundskeeper at the country club didn’t do a good job, so the president got a new groundskeeper,” Newt Gingrich said, describing Bannon’s exit from the White House. When asked if he was calling Bannon a groundskeeper — those who tend to the greens and fairways at golf courses Yes.”If you decide that you’re so important that you can take on the president’s daughter, son-in-law, and two sons, and you lose, it has a lot of consequences" WP.
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Steve Bannon was replaced as executive chairman of Breitbart News Network on Tuesday, ending his relationship with the far-right website that he helped become widely influential and that in turn abetted his rise as a political adviser and would-be kingmaker.Bannon’s departure — just days after his public criticisms of former White House colleagues led to a spectacular falling-out with President Trump and his allies — was a humbling denouement for a figure who had reached the uppermost levels of power only a year ago. It leaves him with no evident platform to promote his views and no major financial backer for his preferred candidates.His departure from Breitbart followed what appears to have been a vote of no confidence from a key supporter and investor in the website, Rebekah Mercer, Mercer’s ire by making critical comments about Trump and his family to author Michael Wolff in a book, Bannon is quoted as saying that Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, engaged in “treasonous” behavior by secretly meeting with Russian representatives during the campaign to get unflattering information about Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton.“The groundskeeper at the country club didn’t do a good job, so the president got a new groundskeeper,” Newt Gingrich said, describing Bannon’s exit from the White House. When asked if he was calling Bannon a groundskeeper — those who tend to the greens and fairways at golf courses Yes.”If you decide that you’re so important that you can take on the president’s daughter, son-in-law, and two sons, and you lose, it has a lot of consequences" WP.
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