(JTA) — Stephen Bannon, whose advice to President Donald Trump was that “darkness is good,” was thrust out into the light of the sunshiny day enveloping Washington, D.C., on Friday: He is no longer Trump’s strategic adviser. It’s not clear yet what led to Bannon’s departure: He alone among Trump’s senior advisers favored the president’s…
While some of the president’s closest advisers were disgusted with his comments this week on Charlottesville, chief strategist Steve Bannon was thrilled, according to friends and associates who spoke to him afterward. “Steve was proud of how [Trump] stood up to the braying mob of reporters,” one person who spoke to Bannon told the Axios…
Following Anthony Scaramucci’s accidental interviewonversation with the New Yorker, one might think Trump administration staffers would have set rules of engagement with reporters. But Steve Bannon sounded off to the American Prospect without asking to go off the record. In the most surprising twist from the interview, Bannon appeared to distance himself from the “alt-right,”…
White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon was supportive of President Trump’s decision at a Tuesday press conference to double down on his earlier claim that neo-Nazis were just as blameworthy as counter-protestors during the unrest in Charlottesville, the political news site Axios reported. “Steve was proud of how [Trump] stood up to the braying mob…
In an August 15 speech, the President of the United States equated actual American Nazis with liberal counter-protestors. Throughout his campaign and his nascent administration, President Donald Trump has ideologically and materially aided neo-Nazis and other hate groups with anti-Semitic goals and values. When asked if he thought the alt left was the same as…
Seven Democratic members of Congress have signed a letter asking President Trump to fire White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon and aides Stephen Miller and Sebastian Gorka in response to the violence that occurred after a white nationalist rally last week in Charlottesville, Va. The letter states that “Americans deserve to know that white nationalists,…
Anthony Scaramucci might have left the White House after a short and troubled tenure, but that’s not stopping him from telling President Trump to fire Steve Bannon. “If it was up to me, he would be gone,” said Scaramucci, also known as the “Mooch,” on Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” on CBS. “But it’s not up…
Steve Bannon’s spat with H.R. McMaster is showing no signs of letting up, with the national security adviser refusing to explicitly say that he’s willing to work with the chief White House strategist. “I get to work together with a broad range of talented people. And it is a privilege every day to enable the…
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