At recent dinner w Murdoch, Kushner and Kelly, Trump was told by Murdoch that Bannon has to go

[sunonmars]

As we expected, we know Trump is not running the show.......puppet.

Link to tweet

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/us/politics/steve-bannon-trump-white-house.html

Rupert Murdoch has repeatedly urged President Trump to fire him. Anthony Scaramucci, the president’s former communications director, thrashed him on television as a white nationalist. Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, the national security adviser, refused to even say he could work with him.

For months, Mr. Trump has considered ousting Stephen K. Bannon, the White House chief strategist and relentless nationalist who ran the Breitbart website and called it a “platform for the alt-right.” Mr. Trump has sent Mr. Bannon to a kind of internal exile, and has not met face-to-face for more than a week with a man who was once a fixture in the Oval Office, according to aides and friends of the president.

So far, Mr. Trump has not been able to follow through — a product of his dislike of confrontation, the bonds of a foxhole friendship forged during the 2016 presidential campaign and concerns about what mischief Mr. Bannon might do once he leaves the protective custody of the West Wing.

Not least, Mr. Bannon embodies the defiant populism at the core of the president’s agenda. Despite being marginalized, Mr. Bannon consulted with the president repeatedly over the weekend as Mr. Trump struggled to respond to the neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Va. In general, Mr. Bannon has cautioned the president not to criticize far-right activists too severely for fear of antagonizing a small but energetic part of his base.

But what once endeared him to the president has now become a major liability. After the president waited two days to blame white supremacists for the violence in Charlottesville, there is new pressure from Mr. Trump’s critics to dismiss Mr. Bannon.

[Weekend Warrior]

1. Trump only hires the best!!!

[sunonmars]

2. Makes you wonder what Bannon has got on Trump that Trump cannot fire him?

[ProudLib72]

3. Bannon is influential and has influential friends

some of whom have already threatened tRump of reprisal should he fire Bannon. If he does fire Bannon, I predict that his poll numbers drop below 30%.

[Chasstev365]

4. The Mercers are an example!

[dhol82]

6. Then we have to consider where Pence relates to all this

Don't see the Kochs or the Mercers as Dominionists
Will we end up with president Orrin Hatch?

[GeoWilliam750]

8. Rupert Murdoch

May well be the only person keeping President Trump in power. If Murdoch turns against President Trump, President Trump will fall in less than a month.

Rupert strongly influences the Republican base that elected President Trump, and Fox News just put this up:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029458756

Rupert fired the first shot.

[TheBlackAdder]

15. Some pro-Bannon goons said they would mercilessly trash Trump if Bannon were to get sacked.

This was a little while back. I forget who the dipshits were who said it.

[dhol82]

5. I worry about what Bannon will do when he feels cornered

He is in control now. What happens when the Donnie tries to dump him?

[GeoWilliam750]

9. If Bannon turns on President Trump

He will also find himself in conflict with Rupert Murdoch. It is hard to see how Bannon wins that conflict.

[dhol82]

10. A cornered rat is a dangerous thing

He still has Breitbart as a fighting force.

[badhair77]

7. Stephen Miller must go, too.

I want to see them escorted from the White House like the Mooch.

[nocalflea]

11. Gee, what's Rupert worried about ?

Murdoch and News Corp have dumbed down and divided our nation. He helped bring us Trump, he needs to leave with Trump.

[sunonmars]

12. Trumps a puppet, these guys run the place it seems.

[nocalflea]

16. Murdoch and the Mercers nay have Trump by the short hairs, but Putin has Trump by the balls.

[GeoWilliam750]

13. Four people in the room?

Who leaked the story?

[sunonmars]

14. Moneys on Kushner