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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSteve Bannon Readies His Revence - the war on Kushner is about to go nuclear
On the morning he was being ousted as Donald Trumps chief strategist last Friday, Steve Bannon had already turned the page. Why do you sound unfazed? a friend asked Bannon as news of his demise ricocheted across the web. Because, Bannon replied, were going to war. Hours later, Bannon was calling into the editorial meeting at Breitbart News, rallying his troops to continue the battles he waged inside the White House. We have a duty to the country to be the vanguard of The Movement, he told his staff, according to one person on the call. Bannons main targets are the West Wings coterie of New York Democrat globalistsIvanka Trump, Jared Kushner and former Goldman Sachs president Gary Cohnas well as the hawks, comprised of National Security Adviser H.R McMaster and his deputy, Dina Powell. He wants to beat their ideas into submission, Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow told me. Steve has a lot of things up his sleeve.
The chaotic, war-torn West Wing of the past six months will be prologue, but the coming struggles will be as personal as they are ideological, waged not with leaks but with slashing Breitbart banners. On Sunday, Breitbart took renewed aim at McMaster, with a headline claiming he advocated Quran Kissing. But most of all, theres a deep animosity between Bannon and Kushner, amplified by a lack of respect. Bannon finds Kushners political instincts highly questionable. He said Jared is a dope, one Bannon ally recalled. The two clashed fiercely on personnel decisions and policy debates, both domestic and international, many of which Bannon lost. But Bannon, who was the only West Wing advisor to publicly support the presidents response to the violence in Charlottesville, is especially galled at being scapegoated as an anti-Semite in its wake. Its one of the attacks he takes most personally because its not true, a Breitbart staffer told me. Bannons allies lay out a more complicated backstory. Bannon, they say, lobbied Trump aggressively to move Americas embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, but was blocked by Kushner. And, according to three Bannon allies, Bannon pushed a tougher line against the Palestinians than Kushner did. In May, when Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visited the White House, Bannon stayed home. Im not going to breathe the same air as that terrorist, Bannon texted a friend.
In the final weeks, Bannon was relentlessly tarred as a prime West Wing leaker, but Bannons allies make a similar case about Kushner. Specifically, they believe that Kushner cultivated a relationship with Matt Drudge, who frequently pushed anti-Bannon headlinesThe Total Eclipse of Steve Bannon; Bannon Is the Real Presidentin the weeks leading up to Trumps decision to defenestrate him. Bannon also told friends that he believed Kushner encouraged Fox News chairman Rupert Murdoch to lobby Trump to fire him. Last week, The New York Times reported that Murdoch told Trump over a private dinner with Kushner that Trump needed to jettison his chief strategist. The Bannon camp believes that Murdoch was especially receptive to Kushners lobbying because Murdoch is worried about the rise of Sinclair Broadcasting as a competitor to Fox, and blames Bannon for Trumps decision so far not to block the Sinclairs $3.9 billion takeover of Tribune Media in May.
The chaotic, war-torn West Wing of the past six months will be prologue, but the coming struggles will be as personal as they are ideological, waged not with leaks but with slashing Breitbart banners. On Sunday, Breitbart took renewed aim at McMaster, with a headline claiming he advocated Quran Kissing. But most of all, theres a deep animosity between Bannon and Kushner, amplified by a lack of respect. Bannon finds Kushners political instincts highly questionable. He said Jared is a dope, one Bannon ally recalled. The two clashed fiercely on personnel decisions and policy debates, both domestic and international, many of which Bannon lost. But Bannon, who was the only West Wing advisor to publicly support the presidents response to the violence in Charlottesville, is especially galled at being scapegoated as an anti-Semite in its wake. Its one of the attacks he takes most personally because its not true, a Breitbart staffer told me. Bannons allies lay out a more complicated backstory. Bannon, they say, lobbied Trump aggressively to move Americas embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, but was blocked by Kushner. And, according to three Bannon allies, Bannon pushed a tougher line against the Palestinians than Kushner did. In May, when Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visited the White House, Bannon stayed home. Im not going to breathe the same air as that terrorist, Bannon texted a friend.
In the final weeks, Bannon was relentlessly tarred as a prime West Wing leaker, but Bannons allies make a similar case about Kushner. Specifically, they believe that Kushner cultivated a relationship with Matt Drudge, who frequently pushed anti-Bannon headlinesThe Total Eclipse of Steve Bannon; Bannon Is the Real Presidentin the weeks leading up to Trumps decision to defenestrate him. Bannon also told friends that he believed Kushner encouraged Fox News chairman Rupert Murdoch to lobby Trump to fire him. Last week, The New York Times reported that Murdoch told Trump over a private dinner with Kushner that Trump needed to jettison his chief strategist. The Bannon camp believes that Murdoch was especially receptive to Kushners lobbying because Murdoch is worried about the rise of Sinclair Broadcasting as a competitor to Fox, and blames Bannon for Trumps decision so far not to block the Sinclairs $3.9 billion takeover of Tribune Media in May.
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Meanwhile, the next phase has already begun. On Sunday, the websites lead story was based on a Daily Mail report that said Ivanka was behind Bannons removal. Trumps daughter Ivanka pushed out Bannon because of his far-right views clashing with her Jewish faith, the article noted. Another piece was headlined: 6 TIMES JAVANKAS DISPLEASURE WITH POTUS LEAKED TO PRESS. In his feud with Kushner, Bannon may have a powerful ally: Reince Priebus, also recently departed from the White House with a quiver of grudges. Recently, according to several sources, Bannon has told friends he wants Priebus to give his account of the James Comey firing to special prosecutor Robert Mueller. According to a source close to Priebus, the former chief of staff believes that the decision was made during an early May weekend in Bedminster, where Kushner, Ivanka Trump, and Stephen Miller were with the president. Trump returned to the Oval Office on Monday, May 8 and told other aides he intended to fire Comey.
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Steve Bannon Readies His Revence - the war on Kushner is about to go nuclear (Original Post)
womanofthehills
Aug 2017
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Skittles
(153,160 posts)1. Bannon is batshit insane
a real fucking nutcase
tanyev
(42,552 posts)2. I don't understand how Bannon thinks he wins with this strategy, but hey, whatever.
Mopar151
(9,983 posts)3. Best days are far behind him.
Years of heavy hitting can lower I.Q. 20 points. I worked for an alcoholic genius and his family - the old man the best of the lot, horrid, offensive, miserly. He was losin'it in a major way, and the kids n' mom were not up to their end. I can't imagine that hot mess in the white house.