Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon stepped down Tuesday as executive chairman of Breitbart News, a swift and stunning fall for a leading figure on the American right who was recently rebuked by President Donald Trump and abandoned by his key financial backer.
Trump publicly broke with Bannon in dramatic fashion last week, suggesting his former top adviser had “lost his mind” in response to critical comments Bannon made about members of the Trump family and campaign in Michael Wolff’s incendiary new book, “Fire and Fury.”
Breitbart's announcement came on the same day that Trump discussed comprehensive immigration reform at the White House and said he would attend the elite World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, later this month, and just weeks after he signed a bill cutting taxes for corporations and the wealthy — all moves that cut against Bannon’s nationalist, populist vision and show how his influence has waned since he was hailed as the mastermind behind Trump's 2016 victory.
“I’m proud of what the Breitbart team has accomplished in so short a period of time in building out a world-class news platform," Bannon said in a statement on Tuesday. Breitbart CEO Larry Solov said Bannon “is a valued part of our legacy, and we will always be grateful for his contributions, and what he has helped us to accomplish.”
Bannon also lost his Sirius radio show and seems to be completely without a job at this point.
And without his ties to the White House, his money from the Mercer family, or his Breitbart media platform, Bannon is now essentially a non-entity whose his former political influence is now just a memory.
This has to please the Republican establishment to no end, as Bannon was a huge supporter of Right Wing challengers.
I think this is only the first casualty from Michael Wolff's book, and the final casualty may be Donald Trump himself.
Now he can go back to his first love, making crappy political movies like The Undefeated. No matter the fancy the packaging, it was still a pig with lipstick.
ReplyDeleteNow he can make The Defeated.
DeleteBannon looks like he is an expert in addiction. He can always find a career in counseling others about addiction.
Breitbart over ate and used drugs, he may or may not have quit when he died, but his negative life contributed to his early demise.
Why doesn't Bannon man up and start telling the truth?
Otherwise he can only go down and it looks like he may be at the bottom.
If we don’t provide even the bare minimum in evidence-based treatment, this crisis will keep getting worse.
To understand why America’s opioid epidemic keeps getting worse, just look at this map https://www.vox.com/2018/1/10/16872012/opioid-epidemic-medication-addiction-map
StableBoy is at it again,calling Senator Feinstein sleasy.I guess hell will freeze over before he will grow up and cease and deist the name calling.at least he wins the least mature president award.
ReplyDeleteWolff was on the View and Meghan was ranting about these low life journalist that write books,like Game Change that was lies about her daddy. I think she took that job just so she can yak about her daddy every day.
Tough toenails, Meghan, that looney toon is his legacy.
DeleteMeghan is a pain in the ass to watch on The View! She's got an attitude and uppity mannerisms. Plus, I'm tired of her directing everything toward her Dad - John McCain.
DeleteAlso, am shocked she got married - cannot imagine what it is like living with her! The poor guy!
Meghan only has Daddy's legacy, she must dis Game Change.
DeleteIs she planning on taking over daddy's senate seat when he kicks the bucket?
DeleteSteve will write a book since he is now person non grata.
ReplyDeleteI don't trust bannon as far as u can throw the mackinaw bridge,i don't think we have seen the last of him.
ReplyDeleteMaybe he is going to run his revolution to destroy America underground.
OT. Darrell Issa announces his retirement, and will not run for Congress again. Aww... Does this mean no more hearings on Hillary, Benghazi and her emails?
ReplyDeleteI don't think many are going to miss Issa! Way past time he was put out to pasture!
Deletethe republicans are not going to give up on Hillary. there seems to be some kind of problem with the republicans and they just don't know what to do! so waste a few million dollars to find-nothing!
DeleteSadly, I'm sure he will be paid for writing op-eds.
ReplyDeleteI'm still one that believes a LOT of what Bannon has said is true....and, that it will come out more and more as time moves along. Trump is far worse an asshole than Bannon! The Republicans are making HIM out to be worse than Trump! Tain't the case in my humble opinion.
ReplyDeletebannon will be just fine. the republicans are f@#$%^ing themselves. they don't get that they are kicking themselves out of congress-and i'm sure bannon has a lot of other stories to tell.
DeleteSenate Dems issue scathing report: ‘Trump stands practically idle’ against Putin’s threat to US democracy
ReplyDelete...The report details how the Kremlin attempted to influence politics in 19 European nations, which Senate Democrats say foreshadowed Russian meddling in the 2016 election won by Trump — who has dismissed intelligence and law enforcement findings on the topic as “fake news.”
“Never before has a U.S. president so clearly ignored such a grave and growing threat to U.S. national security,” the report warns.
Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) said he hoped the report would show Americans the “true scope and scale” of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s efforts to undermine western democracies.
“While President Trump stands practically idle, Mr. Putin continues to refine his asymmetric arsenal and look for future opportunities to disrupt governance and erode support for the democratic and international institutions that the United States and Europe have built over the last 70 years,” Cardin said.
'Today I'm releasing a #RussiaReport documenting Vladimir Putin's 20-year attack on democratic institutions in his own country and Europe. To protect against what the Kremlin did to the U.S. in 2016, we need to first understand Putin's pattern.'
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/senate-dems-issue-scathing-report-trump-stands-practically-idle-against-putins-threat-to-us-democracy/
https://twitter.com/SenatorCardin
WATCH: Angry Trump fumes about Wolff book again — and vows to ‘take a strong look’ at libel laws
In a quick talk with reporters just before his cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Trump once again attacked author Michael Wolff and said his book’s success showed the need to strengthen libel laws in the United States so that he can more easily sue people who write unflattering things about him.
“We are going to take a strong look at our country’s libel laws so that when somebody says something that is false and defamatory about someone, that person will have meaningful recourse in our courts,” the president said. “And if somebody says something that’s totally false and knowingly false, that the person that has been abused, defamed, libeled, will have meaningful recourse.”
Instead of letting his statement end there — or even elaborating on what “taking a strong look” at libel laws would entail — Trump continued to rant about how difficult it is for public figures to sue writers in the United States.
“Our current libel laws are a sham and a disgrace and do not represent American values or American fairness,” the president claimed. “So we’re going to take a strong look at that. We want fairness. You can’t say things that are false, knowingly false and be able to smile as money pours into your bank account. We’re going to take a very, very strong look at that. And I think what the American people want to see is fairness.”
Watch the video below.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/watch-angry-trump-fumes-about-wolff-book-again-and-vows-to-take-a-strong-look-at-libel-laws/
http://www.politicususa.com/2018/01/10/depressed-trump-holds-cabinet-meeting-tantrum-libel-laws.html
DeleteThe White House likes to hold cabinet meetings for Donald Trump when he is depressed, so Trump held a cabinet meeting where he praised himself for the great job that he is doing and tantrumed about the nation’s libel laws.
DeleteVideo:
http://www.politicususa.com/2018/01/10/depressed-trump-holds-cabinet-meeting-tantrum-libel-laws.html
And all the while racking up 6-7 provable lies per day since he was inaugurated.
DeleteWhat a slimy POS.
Trump, and his fellow Republicans, look like total idiots in kissing the ass of their leader at that large conference table. I've never witnessed anything so ridiculous.
DeleteWell he can look at the laws all he wants, the president doesn't write the laws, Congress does.
DeleteAlso with all his juvenile name calling of anyone that criticizes his stupidity, he may regret taking a "strong look at this".
he libels constantly. crooked Hillary. funny how he only cares about the law when he wants it. liar. does he know the concept of free speech? God. he pisses me off. can he go one day acting like a real person? one day acting like an adult and not a spoiled little brat?
DeleteGod forbid.
ReplyDeleteThe president predicted that “the media will ultimately support Trump because if Trump doesn’t win in three years, they’re all out of business.”
“You guys will be out of business,” he warned members of the media who were present.
Watch the video below from CNN.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/trump-praises-himself-for-meeting-with-dems-my-performance-got-great-reviews-the-ratings-were-fantastic/
out of business? is he the only person on the planet? doesn't his ego have an end to it?
DeleteIt’s Real Fuckin’ Obvious Why GOP Didn’t Want Us To Read The Fusion GPS Transcript
ReplyDeleteLet’s be clear about one thing right now. Senator Dianne Feinstein is a hero and a fucking boss for releasing that giant Fusion GPS transcript, which we spent six hours reading and blogging on Tuesday. Is she kinda too conservative for a lib state like California? SHE IS. Is she also MURDERING HER REPUBLICAN COLLEAGUES, WITH MURDER? That too!
On MSNBC Tuesday night, Lawrence O’Donnell chuckled as he remembered his time working in Congress, saying Feinstein is the LAST senator you’d expect to do something so bold. Rachel Maddow reported that RUMOR HAS IT Feinstein reached her “fuck you” point after Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and craven Trump suck-up Lindsey Graham made the first criminal referral of the entire Russia investigation, without consulting her, and it was to INVESTIGATE CHRISTOPHER STEELE, the nice spy who uncovered a lot of the Trump-Russia conspiracy and was so worried about the national security implications of what he found that he, a Brit, insisted on going to the American FBI to say “PIP PIP ACHTUNG!” or however they say “Danger!” in England. To be clear, Chris Steele The British Spy is a greater goddamn American patriot than Grassley or Graham or House Intel Committee chair Devin Nunes will ever fuckin’ be.
And what was that criminal referral about? This, presumably!
https://wonkette.com/628122/its-real-fuckin-obvious-why-gop-didnt-want-us-to-read-the-fusion-gps-transcript
Feinstein is the true HERO in D.C. currently. Thank God, she released the information. She's far better than Donald Trump ever thought of being!
Deletehttp://www.politicususa.com/2018/01/10/house-democrat-proposed-stable-genius-act-medical-exams-presidential-candidates-requirement.html
DeleteOh my!
ReplyDeleteAlaska is warming so quickly that weather algorithms can’t keep up
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/alaska-is-warming-so-quickly-that-weather-algorithms-cant-keep-up/
There is no climate change. Ask California.
DeleteMaybe he and Palin can come up with a new grift; another ‘documentary‘ about her like ‘The Undeafeated.’ That might generate a few bucks from the rubes.
ReplyDeleteNow Steve Bannon and Sarah Palin will be in competition for opening super markets in podunk red towns. These types of people don’t go away.
ReplyDeleteNon-Entity Steve Bannon's Net Worth as of 2018: $20 Million!
ReplyDeleteMost of that will be reserved for lawsuits, trumptard.
DeleteYeah, he surely looks prosperous.
Deletehttps://crooksandliars.com/2017/08/steve-bannons-florida-house-meth-and-porn
He doesn't have much to be worried about. I wish they'd go after Trump in lawsuits like they are doing Bannon.
DeleteTrump is an idiot and Bannon is not - look at their backgrounds as to their educations, military duty, ranks, livelihood, accomplishments and value as human beings. Trump inherited his where Bannon did not! Bannon worked for his and earned it!
So much of the commentary is about how Bannon looks! There is a lot more to review about people than 'how' they appear physically. If you go solely by that, you will usually find yourself to be wrong!
Deletehe can go away now.
Delete11:04
DeleteiF PEOPLE LOOK LIKE ALCOHOLICS OR DRUG ADDICTS BECaUSE THEY are ALCOHOLICS AND DRUG ADDICTS - AND THEY ARE IN POSITIONS OF POWER AND influence then they are fair game.
Doctors, nurses, pilots etc all get drug tested. So should these assholes in DC.
Recently I attended an event for high school students where a local minister told the students to "dress like what you want to be."
ReplyDeleteLooks as though Bannon is taking that advice.
Fox News Says It Won’t Be Saving Bannon From Unemployment
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politicususa.com/2018/01/10/fox-news-saving-bannon-unemployment.html
Republicans Have Four Convicted Criminals Running For Congress In 2018
ReplyDeleteThree of them are bragging about it.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/joe-arpaio-2018-election_us_5a563b5ae4b03417e8743168?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
What would you do if you were confronted by that face on a dark street?
ReplyDeleteWhen I worked for years, I always got a kick out of employees/co-workers judging a client/customer by their physical appearance. They usually found they were judged incorrectly and later found they enjoyed working with them (and learning things from them!).
ReplyDeletea sloppy appearance can indicate a sloppy mind. the refusal to bathe often indicates mental illness. not taking care of yourself just shows you don't care. i expect the people i work with not to look and smell dirty.
DeleteThe rich guys behind the scenes have taken the money away for the guy to undermine the middle class and America. Any other despot needs a job and money?
ReplyDeleteWhen Donald upsets the people behind the scenes, he'll get the boot too.
I'm sure bannon has a savings account from years of mingling and plotting. He will have time to take care of himself and clean up. He may have attorney fees if Mueller talked to him. The attorneys will end up with all the money from the circus coming to town. Everyone in the clown car is so sensitive and paranoid. He could write a juicy tell all!
ReplyDeleteYou can bet that it's in offshore accounts, too.
DeleteDoes he pay child support? How does his wife feel about him?
ReplyDeletewho would want that? does he even bathe?
DeletePutin may have another job for him.
ReplyDeletei'll put a dollar in his cofveve cup.
ReplyDeleteha!!!
DeleteI'd squeeze out a turd to go in his cup.
DeleteWill someone please have an Intervention for Steve Bannon? Bannon's looks just scream alcoholic.
ReplyDeleteI hope I see this idiot in the Wal-Marrt parking lot begging for wine money.
ReplyDeleteWhere are all the tweets and contacts to hire him. Like that woman who flipped the Bird yo dumpf.
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