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    Steve Bannon out at White House

    Posted By Garth Kant On 08/18/2017


    WASHINGTON — It’s official: Stephen Bannon is leaving the White House.


    The exit of President Trump’s top adviser has been long rumored but it became a reality Friday when the White House press secretary issued this statement:


    “White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Steve Bannon have mutually agreed today would be Steve’s last day. We are grateful for his service and wish him the best.”


    It was not clear whether Bannon resigned or was fired.
    But he remained defiant and optimistic, telling WND earlier this week, “I have not yet begun to fight.”


    A source told the New York Times the departure was Bannon’s idea and that he actually resigned on Aug. 7. The resignation was to be announced at the start of this week, but was reportedly delayed because of the raging controversy over Charlottesville.


    However, CNN claimed a White House source said Bannon was fired, and was forced out after he refused to resign.


    That source said Trump was going to fire Bannon two weeks ago but had second thoughts about firing him and former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus at the same time.
    The source also claimed that Trump was persuaded to keep Bannon by the influential chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., and other conservatives.


    But Meadows reportedly dropped his opposition to dumping Bannon after he gave a freewheeling interview to a left-leaning reporter earlier this week that flatly contradicted some of the president’s positions, such as the viability of a military option against North Korea, which his top adviser ridiculed.


    On Friday, Matt Drudge, the founder of the influential website the Drudge Report, said Bannon “had one hell of a run.”


    Drudge also speculated that Bannon might return to Breitbart News, which he ran as executive chair before joining the Trump presidential campaign.


    Political observers considered Bannon instrumental in forming the anti-illegal immigration and anti-globalization strategies that helped elect the president.


    Trump was said to chafe at that notion, because those were positions he held long before Bannon joined the 2016 election campaign.


    But the president also recognized Bannon’s unique value to his success by creating the position of White House chief strategist especially for him, and making the man who had been his top campaign adviser his top presidential adviser.


    Bannon, however, encountered significant opposition within the White House in his new role. He was often reported to have bitterly feuded behind the scenes with presidential advisers who did not share his policy goals.
    The president’s top adviser is considered to represent the views of the GOP base voters who elected Trump, so jettisoning him has been seen as politically risky for the president.


    But Bannon apparently became increasingly isolated in the White House as conservatives such as former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn were replaced by moderates such as his successor, H.R. McMaster.


    Bannon has long been accused of racism and white nationalism by leftist critics who have provided no evidence that he has ever actually expressed or supported such views, merely citing the strong anti-illegal immigration stance of the former chief of Breitbart News.


    House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., seemed to think Trump fired Bannon to deflect the intense criticism the president has received after accurately claiming, as demonstrated in video footage, that both far-right and far-left groups were responsible for violence that turned deadly last weekend in Charlottesville.


    Pelosi tweeted: “Steve Bannon’s exit does not erase @realDonaldTrump’s long record of lifting up racist viewpoints & advancing repulsive policies.”


    However, Pelosi has been finding racism in unlikely places, issuing a confused call for the National Park Service to revoke a permit for what she called a “white supremacist rally” set for late August in San Francisco.
    It’s actually a prayer rally.


    Joey Gibson, the organizer of the “Patriot Prayer” rally, pointed out that not only is it not a white supremacist rally, he himself is not white.


    “We have about eight speakers and only one speaker is white. We have a couple black speakers, a hispanic (speaker), we have a transexual speaker, we have a woman speaker, it’s very diverse,” Gibson told a San Francisco paper.


    “It’s frustrating because right now we have these politicians who believe it is OK to lie, you know we let them get away with it. She’s going to make such a ridiculous lie, like even the fact that I’m brown, she’s going to say that I’m a white supremacist,” he added.


    “You know what she’s doing,” Gibson continued, “she’s making it more dangerous for San Francisco. She’s trying to rile up her citizens so that they come down there and try to chase us out. She’s using that rhetoric. It’s just going to cause more violence and put more people in danger.”


    Developing story ~

    http://www.wnd.com/2017/08/steve-ban...white-house-2/

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    Steve Bannon Out At White House…

    Posted on August 18, 2017 by sundance


    This was not unanticipated.
    Those who have read CTH in the past two months will have noted the writing was clearly on the wall. Especially in the aftermath of the American Prospect article and the downstream consequence that Secretary of State Tillerson and Secretary of Defense Mattis were fielding questions from media about why Bannon was undermining them -and President Trump- on national security policy via North Korea.


    In the American Prospect article Steve Bannon also undermined U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson directly, and was far out of line with this:

    “I’m changing out people at East Asian Defense; I’m getting hawks in. I’m getting Susan Thornton [acting head of East Asian and Pacific Affairs] out at State.” ~ Steve Bannon


    This type of statement was so over-the-top arrogant, and exhibits a ridiculous level of power-lust and expressed self-importance, I asked the question: ” Who exactly is Steve Bannon to think that he can marginalize the cabinet? And against the division narrative within the White House why the heck would he push that opinion publicly? Is he trying to push the envelope and get fired?“.


    Well, the White House Press Office has confirmed that political strategist Steve Bannon is no longer working at the White House.






    On timing
    , it makes sense Mr. Bannon would exit today given the full national security meeting in Camp David attendance by: President Trump, VP Pence, General John Kelly, HR McMaster, Secretary Tillerson, Secretary Mattis, Secretary Mnuchin, ODNI Dan Coats, CIA Director Pompeo, AG Jeff Sessions, Ambassador Haley, Joint Chief Chairman General Dunford, etc.


    Can you imagine the awkwardness of Steve Bannon being in the room, amid the administration team, given the nature of his public outline? No way.

    (Via Reuters) A source close to Bannon said he was not expected to resign on his own. “Bannon is going to make them fire him,” the source said. “He’s not going to officially resign. He’s still been doing the work. He’s been working on projects.”


    The New York Times, however, cited a person close to Bannon as saying he had submitted his resignation on Aug. 7 and that it was to be announced this week, but had been delayed by the fallout from a rally by white nationalists in Virginia over the weekend.

    Bannon damaged his standing by giving an interview to the liberal American Prospect this week in which he was seen to be undercutting Trump’s position on North Korea.


    Bannon told associates he thought he was talking to an academic and thought he was off the record. He has told friends he could go back to Breitbart News outlet if he were to leave the White House. (link)

    Both Steve Bannon, and Kellyanne Conway came into the Donald Trump campaign as an outcome of billionaire Robert Mercer and his politically active daughter, Rebekkah Mercer, switching support from Senator Ted Cruz to Donald Trump after the GOP Primary. Bannon and Conway joined team MAGA mid-August for the final two months of the 2016 campaign.






    Most of the predictable angst toward President Trump for Bannon’s release will most likely come from Breitbart and Bannon allies within the “conservative” sphere of Ted Cruz media and associated support groups.
    In the final analysis, Steve Bannon was staff, always staff; simply staff.


    Political Strategist Bannon did not create any of President Trump’s policies or platform issues. The political policy from President Trump is directly from President Trump.


    As I said before:

    President Trump is the wave, the Tsunami wave. Steve Bannon is the surfer…. you already know how this story ends.



    https://theconservativetreehouse.com...t-white-house/


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    I don't know Steve Bannon and can't speak for his character or issue positions. But if Trump pushed Bannon out over pressure from the socialist press over Charlottesville where the Dems caused violence by ordering police to mix the protesters together... if that's what happened Trump is completely lost and can never win these battles against the left.

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    Just Announced: Steve Bannon is back to head Breitbart. Chaired the evening meeting.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ALIPAC View Post
    I don't know Steve Bannon and can't speak for his character or issue positions. But if Trump pushed Bannon out over pressure from the socialist press over Charlottesville where the Dems caused violence by ordering police to mix the protesters together... if that's what happened Trump is completely lost and can never win these battles against the left.

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    Reading Steve Bannon's whiteboard gave us great insight into his thinking. His list generally aligns with Alipac on illegal immigration. He is one of the only conservative Republicans that had the President's ear. Trump is surrounded by elite liberal globalists. He is surrounded by open border thinking.


    General Kelly is not on our side on certain issues. DACA for one. The fight is on to remove Stephen Miller and Sebastian Gorka.
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    'Populist Hero’ Stephen K. Bannon Returns Home to Breitbart

    https://www.alipac.us/f9/populist-hero%92-stephen-k-bannon-returns-home-breitbart-349805/
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    Question being asked by some - Would most of those in the Trump White House be uncomfortable in a Hillary Clinton Whitehouse?
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    Quote Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeach View Post
    Question being asked by some - Would most of those in the Trump White House be uncomfortable in a Hillary Clinton Whitehouse?
    My answer: Probably not.

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    August 18, 2017 3:24PM EDT

    US: Bannon’s Exit Opens Door for Policy Reversals


    Reduce Toxic Impact of White Nationalist Politics


    (Washington, DC) – The Trump administration should use the announced departure of Stephen Bannon as chief White House strategist to quickly distance its civil rights and immigration policies from white nationalist politics, Human Rights Watch said today. The White House announced that Chief of Staff John Kelly and Bannon have “mutually agreed” that August 18, 2017 will be Bannon’s last day.



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    White House Senior Advisor Steve Bannon attends a roundtable discussion held by U.S. President Donald Trump with auto industry leaders at the American Center for Mobility in Ypsilanti Township, Michigan, March 15, 2017.

    © 2017 Reuters“Steve Bannon’s departure from the White House could reduce the toxic influence of white nationalist politics in the White House, but only if coupled by a real shift in administration policies on civil rights and immigration,” said Jasmine L. Tyler, US Program advocacy director at Human Rights Watch. But President Donald Trump himself needs to shift his rhetoric and commit his administration to protecting the human rights of everyone in the United States, across the racial spectrum, if he hopes to regain credibility and distance himself from the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who have embraced him.”

    Human Rights Watch opposed Bannon’s appointment because of his longstanding affinity for the white nationalist movement and has repeatedly called for his removal.

    Going forward, the Trump administration needs to uphold the fundamental values of equality and nondiscrimination, Human Rights Watch said. The Trump administration should reverse its decision to eviscerate the mandates and budgets of US civil rights institutions; end its attempt to exclude white nationalism from the federal government’s Countering Violent Extremism programs; and end immigration and refugee policies based on anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant sentiment.

    https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/08/18/...licy-reversals


    The author of this article obviously feels the firing of Steve Bannon could bode well for illegal immigrants and immigrants from terrotrist countries.



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