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He already knew in late July

artappraiser — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 02:52:42 +0000

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He already knew in late July & things were fine for slow exit BUT THEN, real estate buddies complained! and then...Bannon Was Set for a Graceful Exit. Then Came Charlottesville.

By Jeremy W. Peters & Maggie Habrmann @ NYTimes.com, Aug. 20

WASHINGTON — John F. Kelly, the new White House chief of staff, told Stephen K. Bannon in late July that he needed to go: No need for it to get messy, Mr. Kelly told Mr. Bannon, according to several people with firsthand knowledge of the exchange. The two worked out a mutually amicable departure date for mid-August, with President Trump’s blessing.

But as Mr. Trump struggled last week to contain a growing public furor over his response to a deadly, race-fueled melee in Virginia, Mr. Bannon clashed with Mr. Kelly over how the president should respond. Give no ground to your critics, Mr. Bannon urged the president, with characteristic truculence.

At the same time, New York real estate investor friends told Mr. Trump that the situation with Mr. Bannon was untenable: Steve Roth on Monday, Tom Barrack on Tuesday and Richard LeFrak on Wednesday.

By Thursday, after Mr. Bannon undercut American policy toward North Korea in an interview published by a left-leaning magazine, Mr. Trump himself had concluded that Mr. Bannon was too much of a liability.

This account is based on interviews with a dozen White House aides, associates of the president’s and friends of Mr. Bannon’s.

A former Naval officer, Mr. Bannon speaks often in the language of combat — of escalating conflict to “nuclear” levels and driving his enemies “ballistic.” But in the end, he had lost the war against a list of enemies that included nearly everyone in the West Wing. They included not just the adversaries whose conflicts with Mr. Bannon were widely aired — Gary D. Cohn, the president’s chief economic adviser; Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, the national security adviser; Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter; and Jared Kushner, his son-in-law.

Also against him was Mr. Kelly, who was outraged by the indiscretion Mr. Bannon displayed in the interview with The American Prospect, according to three senior administration officials. And Mr. Bannon could no longer turn to Mr. Trump, whose confidence in him had eroded over a period of months, to ask for a reprieve.

By Friday, when he was forced from his job as Mr. Trump’s chief strategist, Mr. Bannon had found himself wholly isolated inside a White House where he once operated with such autonomy that he reported only to the president himself. [.....]

Which made me check Rove's

artappraiser — Sat, 19 Aug 2017 19:53:58 +0000

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Made me check Rove's twitter, where I found that the day before he tweeted the Bush statements on Charlottesville, he tweeted a "thoughtful piece on an important topic" and the article was titled "Fire Steve Bannon"

Thoughtful piece on an important topic
Fire Steve Bannon https://t.co/WFr9FEwHYp
— Karl Rove (@KarlRove) August 15, 2017

very helpful to read this new

artappraiser — Sat, 19 Aug 2017 19:42:06 +0000

In reply to Trump Tells Aides He Has Decided to Remove Stephen Bannon (Leaker Olympics?)

very helpful to read this new piece @ The Hill, compares Rove and Bannon, and the whole inside/outside the swamp thing, by former Rove associate White House political director to former President George W. Bush. and currently still pretty powerful as Matt Schlapp is chairman of the American Conservative Union and CPAC.

OPINION | Bannon's real political enemies are in the 'resistance,' not the White House

@ FiveThirtyEight, analysis:

artappraiser — Sat, 19 Aug 2017 15:57:35 +0000

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@ FiveThirtyEight, analysis:

Trump’s Populism Isn’t Popular — But That’s On Him, Not Bannon

By Nate Silver, Aug. 18

Bannon May Be Out, But Nationalism Probably Isn’t

By Perry Bacon, Jr., Aug. 18

Emergency Politics Podcast: What Does Bannon’s Exit Mean?

(I haven't listened to the latter yet.)

I really really love the last

artappraiser — Sat, 19 Aug 2017 03:54:31 +0000

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I really really love the last one, it's yuge. Prolly coming soon to a website easily accessible to all, no paywall.

Edit to add: splains everything, everything!

KELLY FIRED BANNON CUZ HE IS

NCD — Sat, 19 Aug 2017 03:32:40 +0000

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KELLY FIRED BANNON CUZ HE IS ON THE COMET PIZZA PAYOLA COURTESY OF INTERNATIONAL BANKERS AND SOROS !!!! ISRAEL TOO!!!

Trump is being drugged by Clintonite Moles in Secret Service/CIA!!!!!!!!!

Anthony Scaramucci retweeted

artappraiser — Sat, 19 Aug 2017 03:23:07 +0000

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Anthony Scaramucci retweeted this Ryan Lizza tweet from earlier this evening:

Bannon's comments to The Weekly Standard suggest Scaramucci had a point.
— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) August 18, 2017

it's at the top of Scaramucci's feed here, 4 hrs. ago

The original New Yorker piece is here.

A reminder that Tuesday Mr.

artappraiser — Sat, 19 Aug 2017 02:46:21 +0000

In reply to Trump Tells Aides He Has Decided to Remove Stephen Bannon (Leaker Olympics?)

A reminder that Tuesday Mr. Bannon reached out to the editor of a liberal publication to talk about how much he agreed with him on trade with China and about how the U.S. should handle North Korea.

Don't know why, neither does Mr. Kuttner as of this evening, he's still puzzled. Though I've hear him insist on the teevee this evening that he thinks Bannon may still maintain direct input to Trump.

I not seen/heard anyone pick up on this meme of a reach out to the other end of the spectrum on policy.

Just sayin' and we'll see (funny didn't Trump just say that recently too?)

ah but but but I was just

artappraiser — Sat, 19 Aug 2017 02:33:59 +0000

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ah but but but I was just reminded this evening by Maddow's show that Mercer just loves him some Clinton conspiracy theories and he is the one that may be paying a lot of the bills here. Maybe they'll have to go back to Vince Foster, as the more recent ones are getting real tiresome, but they'll think of something to keep the paymaster happy?

*Reminder: Hilary's book due out Sept. 12. They can't just let her have control of the narrative, no way.

Whatever the losers, clowns,

NCD — Sat, 19 Aug 2017 02:28:37 +0000

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Whatever the losers, clowns, trolls and Russian bots do, they have irreversibly moved beyond the ddddeeeeefleeecccccttttttionnnn point where, even in their warped twisted Limbaughtomized minds, they can blame this epic tRumpster fire on Hillary or Obama.