[GiRTh]

Steve Bannon fired as Trump White House's top strategist

White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is the latest top aide of President Donald Trump to leave his post.

Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders confirmed that Friday was his last day.

His exit follows a review of his position by White House Chief of Staff John Kelly.

Mr Bannon, a right-wing nationalist and former head of Breitbart.com, helped shape the "America First" message of Mr Trump's election campaign.

But critics had accused the 63-year-old of harbouring anti-Semitic and white supremacist views.

Mr Bannon is known to have competed for influence in the West Wing against more moderate factions, including members of the Trump family.

Mr Trump raised eyebrows earlier this year when he elevated Mr Bannon to the National Security Council, the main group advising the president on national security and foreign affairs.

But he was subsequently removed from the council in a move that was seen as a sign of National Security Adviser HR McMaster's growing influence over the president.

Mr Bannon has reportedly feuded with Mr McMaster as well as Gary Cohn, the director of the president's National Economic Council and a former Goldman Sachs chief viewed as a globalist.

Mr Cohn, along with President Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and daughter, Ivanka Trump, were viewed as threats to Mr Bannon's White House agenda.

Steve Bannon fired as Trump's White House senior strategist

[Oliver_W]

Cool, one less person who's seen as a Nazi.

[GiRTh]

A senior editor at Bannons old publication Breitbart just tweeted #War

https://twitter.com/joelpollak/statu...95085247324161

I am gonna love it if Breitbart go after Trump. They probably already reckon the White House is now too left wing.

[GiRTh]

With Steve Bannon Gone, Donald Trump Risks Becoming Arnold Schwarzenegger 2.0

President Donald Trump’s decision to part ways with Steve Bannon can be understood as an effort to save his presidency after Charlottesville. It may turn out to be the beginning of the end for the Trump administration, the moment Donald Trump became Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Like Trump, Schwarzenegger ran for high office as a celebrity outsider, promising to reform a corrupt, wasteful and lethargic political system, reaching across party lines.

When he took office in 2003 as Governor of California, “The Terminator” carried the hopes of conservatives in the Golden State, who saw him as a vehicle for their ideas, even if he was not a doctrinaire conservative himself. The faltering California Republican Party looked to Schwarzenegger to reverse its long-term decline, and Republicans elsewhere saw his success as a model from which they could learn as they courted moderate, swing-state voters.

But after struggling with intense media criticism, and after losing a key referendum on reforms to state government, Schwarzenegger gave up on his agenda, and abandoned the political base that had brought him into office. He re-invented himself as a liberal, embracing policies such as California’s controversial cap-and-trade program, which had zero effect on climate change but has chased businesses, jobs, and middle-class families out of the state.

Politically, Schwarzenegger’s gambit was a success. He won re-election in 2006. But his second term was a disaster. When he left office in 2010, the state was in a financial shambles and the California Republican Party had begun a decline from which it still has not recovered.

Bannon was not just Trump’s master strategist, the man who turned a failing campaign around in August 2016 and led one of the most remarkable come-from-behind victories in political history. He was also the conservative spine of the administration. His infamous whiteboard in the West Wing listed the promises Trump had made to the voters, and he was determined to check as many of them off as possible. Steve Bannon personified the Trump agenda.

With Bannon gone, there is no guarantee that Trump will stick to the plan. That is why — too late, in retrospect — conservative leaders wrote to the president Friday to advise him that Bannon and campaign manager-turned-counselor Kellyanne Conway were too valuable to lose. Bannon had delivered for the movement, reportedly convincing President Trump to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accords, and to visit Israel on his first trip abroad.

Bannon was also probably the only person who could deliver honest advice and criticism to the president, because he did not need the job. He is a self-made man, and not a Washington climber. Thus it was that Bannon reportedly told Trump that firing former FBI director James Comey would be more trouble than it was worth. He was right.

Trump voters have been patient, but they will soon know if Donald Trump is really Arnold Schwarzenegger 2.0.

With Steve Bannon Gone, Donald Trump Risks Becoming Arnold Schwarzenegger 2.0

Dont like posting links to Breitbart but had to cuz they didnt hesitate to big up their former chief and to paint Trump in a negative light. I hope this is the first of many.

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by GiRTh

With Steve Bannon Gone, Donald Trump Risks Becoming Arnold Schwarzenegger 2.0

Dont like posting links to Breitbart but had to cuz they didnt hesitate to big up their former chief and to paint Trump in a negative light. I hope this is the first of many.

If you'd have pasted (bits of/) the article in a quote box, along with the link, fewer people would need to click it

[Samm]

watching the trump organisation fall is UTTER bliss, he'll be impeached by christmas mark my words

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

If you'd have pasted (bits of/) the article in a quote box, along with the link, fewer people would need to click it

Like this -

http://www.thisisbigbrother.com/foru...t=#post9555655

Thanks

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by GiRTh

Like this -

http://www.thisisbigbrother.com/foru...t=#post9555655

Thanks

Somewhat

[GiRTh]

What To Expect From Steve Bannon Now

He will be able to operate openly and freely to inflict as much damage as he possibly can on the “globalists” that remain in the Trump administration.

Steve will do exactly what he has been doing from Day 1 ― try to “bring everything crashing down.” He will continue to use his weapon of choice, Breitbart, to attack his adversaries inside the West Wing ― mainly Jared, Ivanka, Cohn, etc. He will relentlessly attack Congressional Republican leadership like Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell (and Jeff Flake and John McCain). In many ways, I think Steve will feel liberated. Free from the limitations of “serving” or “answering” to somebody. It’s not in Steve’s DNA to work for anybody but himself. He likes being the dictator. Now, he will be able to operate openly and freely to inflict as much damage as he possibly can on the “globalists” that remain in the Trump administration.

If Steve senses that Trump is being co-opted by the Jared/Ivanka/Trump Jr./Cohn base, he (and Breitbart) will turn on Trump and recruit someone else like Attorney General Sessions to replace him. I would think that in some ways, Steve will want Trump to feel the pain of his departure, and it would not surprise me if Breitbart starts playing up more of the things that they’ve avoided touching to this point ― like the Russia investigation.

I think it’s important to keep in mind that Steve’s departure changes nothing about the things that make Donald Trump unfit to be president. It’s Trump who tweets day and night. It’s Trump who has consciously decided to pander to racists and white supremacists. It’s Trump who has engaged in a dangerous game of chicken with North Korea. At the end of the day, while some of the West Wing infighting may calm down, the real root of the problem is in the Oval Office.

What To Expect From Steve Bannon Now

Love this article. Bannon has no loyalty to Trump, he's probably known him less than a year and of course Bannon still has alot of Friends at Breitbart.

Been waiting for Donny to p*ss off the wrong guy and Bannon may just be that guy.

[JTM45]

That's one less actual Racist and dangerous religious extremist in the White house and that can only be a good thing.
There's many more of the same ilk still in there (Gorka, Pence etc.) but it's the main lunatic/racist/incompetent in Chief, Trump himself, that needs to leave the building ASAP. He's alienated himself from nearly the entire Republican party now. Influential Republican Senator Bob Corker has even been questioning Trump’s mental stability.

Apparently some of Bannon's closest allies spoke to political news site Axios today and informed them that Bannon will be using his propaganda tool Breitbart to destroy everyone he considers to be “globalists” which include “HR McMaster, Dina Powell, Gary Cohn, and Jared and Ivanka”.
This could be extremely detrimental to Trump himself as many of his lunatic-right supporters get their 'news' from Breitbart and take everything they say as gospel.

It's really just a question of whether Trump will jump or be pushed now. It's a shame there won't be a really high cliff in front of him when one of the two inevitably happens.
I think he also thinks that his Mueller problems will dissapear with his Presidency but apparently they most certainly wont and charges that were shelved when he became immune due to becoming President will be back on the table. Another Trump bankruptcy imminent ? I'm still hoping we'll see him wearing an orange jumpsuit and living behing bars at some point. Nobody deserves it more than him.

[Shaun]

RIP you bloated hatemonger

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by JTM45

That's one less actual Racist and dangerous religious extremist in the White house and that can only be a good thing.
There's many more of the same ilk still in there (Gorka, Pence etc.) but it's the main lunatic/racist/incompetent in Chief, Trump himself, that needs to leave the building ASAP. He's alienated himself from nearly the entire Republican party now. Influential Republican Senator Bob Corker has even been questioning Trump’s mental stability.

Apparently some of Bannon's closest allies spoke to political news site Axios today and informed them that Bannon will be using his propaganda tool Breitbart to destroy everyone he considers to be “globalists” which include “HR McMaster, Dina Powell, Gary Cohn, and Jared and Ivanka”.
This could be extremely detrimental to Trump himself as many of his lunatic-right supporters get their 'news' from Breitbart and take everything they say as gospel.

It's really just a question of whether Trump will jump or be pushed now. It's a shame there won't be a really high cliff in front of him when one of the two inevitably happens.
I think he also thinks that his Mueller problems will dissapear with his Presidency but apparently they most certainly wont and charges that were shelved when he became immune due to becoming President will be back on the table. Another Trump bankruptcy imminent ? I'm still hoping we'll see him wearing an orange jumpsuit and living behing bars at some point. Nobody deserves it more than him.

Bannon bought in Gorka and Kellyanne Conway. I hope those two are next on General Kelly's firing list.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Samm

watching the trump organisation fall is UTTER bliss, he'll be impeached by christmas mark my words

Samm
its not falling
Its Corrections.

No impeaching
8Years deal.


Why the FECK
have your SAD Dems
not put anyone up
as New Leader,


H.Clinton FAILED 100%

[arista]

Originally Posted by GiRTh

Bannon bought in Gorka and Kellyanne Conway. I hope those two are next on General Kelly's firing list.

Yes Girth
Gorka
is TOUGH
and liked by D. Trump.


I think a Gorka Robot
could sort out a Factory slow UP

Why no Dems leader yet??????

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by arista

Yes Girth
Gorka
is TOUGH
and liked by D. Trump.


I think a Gorka Robot
could sort out a Factory slow UP

Why no Dems leader yet??????

Gorka is a joker. His degree comes from as dodgy a university as Trump University yet he insists on being called 'Dr', he claims to be a 'expert' on the middle east but admits he cant speak any of the languages and has never lived there. Donny likes him cuz he's smug, arropgant, runs one liners and insults the anchors when interviewed on CNN. Gorka is totally unqualified for the role and I would bet is on General Kelly's radar, for sure.

Sebastian Gorka, Trump's combative new national security aide, is widely disdained within his own field

[JTM45]

Originally Posted by arista

Samm
its not falling
Its Corrections.

No impeaching
8Years deal.
[/B]

So if it's not ''falling'' (i guess you meant 'failing') then you see this as a successful Presidency ? Worrying.

What are you on about ''8 years deal'' ? Trump won't even last the first four. I'd be amazed if he's still there by this Christmas!

To get re-elected he would need the full support of the Republican Party. There's very few Republicans who still support him. He'd also need enough people to vote for him. His approval rating is at a record low. No President in the entire History of the US has been so unpopular. Even if he could last 'til the next election (which he 100% will not!) he couldn't possibly win.

It's highly likely that he'll be in prison by the time of the next election.

Agreed Girth! Gorka (racist scum!) and Kellyanne (liar supreme!) need to be fired ASAP!!!

[GiRTh]

Chief Strategist Steve Bannon Out at White House: ‘Get Ready for Bannon the Barbarian’

White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon — the former Breitbart News executive chairman who helped guide then-candidate Donald Trump’s flagging presidential campaign to a historic victory — is on his way out of the White House, with a source close to Bannon telling Axios: “Get ready for Bannon the barbarian.”

Axios first reported that Bannon, who was brought on to the campaign in August to replace Paul Manafort as campaign chairman, was expected to depart from the White House imminently.

Soon after, the Drudge Report issued a siren on the site’s front page, declaring: “Bannon Out at White House” adding that he was “moving on after an impressive run.”

Meanwhile, the New York Times also reported that President Trump had decided to remove Bannon, but Trump and senior White House officials were debating “when and how to dismiss” Bannon.

The Times reported that a person close to Bannon insisted that a departure was Bannon’s idea and that a resignation had been submitted on August 7 — but the protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, had delayed his departure.

The White House later partly confirmed the reports: “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,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement. No further details were immediately available.

Bannon was widely reported to have feuded with a number of the globalists White House officials within Trump’s administration, as he sought to get Trump to stick to the campaign promises that had helped carry him to his win in November.

The Times reported that Bannon had clashed with members of Trump’s family. Axios reported that Bannon was suspected of leaking about colleagues and that Trump “resents the publicity Bannon has been getting as mastermind of the campaign.”

However, while it was unclear what Bannon’s next move would be, a source close to Bannon told Axios: “Get ready for Bannon the barbarian.”

Chief Strategist Steve Bannon Out at White House: ‘Get Ready for Bannon the Barbarian

Dont like posting another link to Breitbart but there are now a bunch of negative Trump admin stories on their front page, including this one. It looks like they had a bunch of stories ready to go!!!

Love this bit

helped guide then-candidate Donald Trump’s flagging presidential campaign to a historic victory

Donny's not gonna like reading that.

[GiRTh]

Bannon: 'The Trump Presidency That We Fought For, and Won, Is Over.'

With the departure from the White House of strategist Stephen K. Bannon, who helped shape the so-called nationalist-populist program embraced by Donald Trump in his unlikely path to election, a new phase of the Trump presidency begins. Given Trump’s nature, what comes next will hardly be conventional, but it may well be less willfully disruptive – which, to Bannon, had been the point of winning the White House.

“The Trump presidency that we fought for, and won, is over,” Bannon said Friday, shortly after confirming his departure. “We still have a huge movement, and we will make something of this Trump presidency. But that presidency is over. It’ll be something else. And there’ll be all kinds of fights, and there’ll be good days and bad days, but that presidency is over.”

Bannon says that he will return to the helm of Breitbart, the rambunctious right-wing media enterprise he ran until joining the Trump campaign as chief executive last August. At the time, the campaign was at its nadir, and Trump was trailing Hillary Clinton in the polls by double digits.

Although his influence with the President waxed and waned, Bannon’s standing in the Trump circle was always precarious. Among the senior advisors competing with Bannon in trying to shape Trump’s agenda, and his tone, were the President’s daughter, Ivanka, and son-in-law, Jared. Bannon pointedly voiced criticism of those in the President’s sphere whom he considered to be globalists, or liberals (or both), and the President himself plainly bristled over the early attention that Bannon got from the press (including a TIME magazine cover, which is said to have particularly irked Trump).

Bannon says that his departure was voluntary, and that he’d planned it to coincide with the one-year anniversary of his joining the Trump campaign as chief executive, on August 14, 2016.

“On August 7th , I talked to [Chief of Staff John] Kelly and to the President, and I told them that my resignation would be effective the following Monday, on the 14th,” he said. “I’d always planned on spending one year. General Kelly has brought in a great new system, but I said it would be best. I want to get back to Breitbart.”

Bannon says that with the tumult in Charlottesville last weekend, and the political fallout since, Trump, Kelly and he agreed to delay Bannon’s departure, but that he and Kelly agreed late this week that now was the time for Bannon to leave.

Bannon may have resigned, but it was clear from the time that Kelly became chief of staff that Bannon’s remaining time in the West Wing was going to be short. Kelly undertook a study of the West Wing’s operating system, and let it be known that he kept hearing about Bannon as a disruptive force and a source of leaks aimed at undermining his rivals. One of those, with whom Kelly is deeply in sympathy, is National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster, who clashed forcefully with Bannon over such policies as strategy for the war in Afghanistan.

It is plainly Bannon’s view that his departure is not a defeat for him personally, but for the ideology he’d urged upon the president, as reflected in Trump’s provocative inaugural address, in which he spoke of self-dealing Washington politicians, and their policies that led to the shuttered factories and broken lives of what he called “American carnage.” Bannon co-authored that speech (and privately complained that it had been toned down by West Wing moderates like Ivanka and Jared).

“Now, it’s gonna be Trump,” Bannon said. “The path forward on things like economic nationalism and immigration, and his ability to kind of move freely … I just think his ability to get anything done – particularly the bigger things, like the wall, the bigger, broader things that we fought for, it’s just gonna be that much harder.”

Bannon assigns blame for the thwarting of his program on “the West Wing Democrats,” but holds special disdain for the Washington establishment – especially those Republicans who have, he believes, willfully failed to provide Trump with meaningful victories.

And, he believes, things are about to get worse for Trump. “There’s about to be a jailbreak of these moderate guys on the Hill” – a stream of Republican dissent, which could become a flood.

Bannon says that he once confidently believed in the prospect of success for that version of the Trump presidency he now says is over. Asked what the turning point was, he says, “It’s the Republican establishment. The Republican establishment has no interest in Trump’s success on this. They’re not populists, they’re not nationalists, they had no interest in his program. Zero. It was a half-hearted attempt at Obamacare reform, it was no interest really on the infrastructure, they’ll do a very standard Republican version of taxes.

“What Trump ran on – border wall, where is the funding for the border wall, one of his central tenets, where have they been? Have they rallied around the Perdue-Cotton immigration bill. On what element of Trump’s program, besides tax cuts – which is going to be the standard marginal tax cut – where have they rallied to Trump’s cause? They haven’t.”

Bannon believes that those who will now try to influence Trump will hope to turn him in a sharply different direction.

“I think they’re going to try to moderate him,” he says. “I think he’ll sign a clean debt ceiling, I think you’ll see all this stuff. His natural tendency – and I think you saw it this week on Charlottesville – his actual default position is the position of his base, the position that got him elected. I think you’re going to see a lot of constraints on that. I think it’ll be much more conventional.”

But Bannon believes that Trump, with the help of Stephen K. Bannon, has already effected a lasting realignment of American politics.

As for himself, Bannon says the fight is just beginning.

“I feel jacked up,” he says. “Now I’m free. I’ve got my hands back on my weapons. Someone said, ‘it’s Bannon the Barbarian.’ I am definitely going to crush the opposition. There’s no doubt. I built a ****ing machine at Breitbart. And now I’m about to go back, knowing what I know, and we’re about to rev that machine up. And rev it up we will do.”

Bannon: 'The Trump Presidency That We Fought For, and Won, Is Over.'

[Samm]

Originally Posted by arista

Samm
its not falling
Its Corrections.

No impeaching
8Years deal.


Why the FECK
have your SAD Dems
not put anyone up
as New Leader,


H.Clinton FAILED 100%

he's not getting a second term

[JTM45]

Wow!!!!
It does look like Breitbart have almost been preparing for this.

Felix Sater, ex Russian mafia and long-time Trump friend who has been talking to the FBI recently has told close friends this week that he believes that both he and Trump are definitely going to prison. Great news!

Longtime republican strategist (and prominent Trump critic) Rick Wilson has also posted on Twitter today hinting that a huge Trump/Russia bombshell is about two weeks away! He added on the end of his tweet ''I'm going to gloat like a mofo''.
He's known for the accuracy of his information.

The future's looking brighter for decent people and extremely cloudy for dishonest, treasonous scumbag Donald Trump. This makes me happy!