Where Bannon appears
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… family, who were in turn determined to have him protect them. “The daughter will take down the father,” said Bannon, in a Shakespearian mood. Within the West Wing there was much replaying of alternative scenarios. If you wanted to get rid...
candidates were Powell and Cohn, the Jarvanka favorites; OMB director Mick Mulvaney, one of the Bannon picks; and Kelly. In fact, Kelly—who would soon abjectly apologize to Priebus for the basic lack of courtesy in the way his dismissal was...
…tual analysis of his largely off-the-cuff speeches, random remarks, and reflexive tweets during the campaign. Bannon doggedly went through the Trump oeuvre highlighting possible insights and policy proscriptions. Part of Bannon’s authority...
…iculing his opponent’s slow pace. He performed. “This man never takes a break from being Donald Trump,” noted Bannon, with a complicated sort of faint praise, a few weeks after joining the campaign full time. It was during Trump’s early int...
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…and then could you say a little bit about the current dynamic of what's going on at the moment in the States. Bannon: Outside of Fox News and the Drudge Report, we're the third-largest conservative news site and, quite frankly, we have a bi...
…ly true during the hard days following Billy Bush: when virtually everybody, including the candidate himself, Bannon, Conway, and his children, believed the campaign would implode, Giuliani barely allowed himself a break from his nonstop, p...
on and public defender of the Clinton White House. Bannon judged Comey-Mueller to be as threatening to the Trump White House as Monica Lewinsky and Ken Starr were to the Clinton White House, and he saw the model for escaping a mortal fate i...
…f all, the advice he was getting. “He’s not only crazy,” declared Tom Barrack to a friend, “he’s stupid.” But Bannon, along with Priebus, had strongly opposed the Comey firing, while Ivanka and Jared had not only supported it, but insisted...
any moment, and it pleased him that Bannon’s pronouncements and views would consistently be fully formed and ever available, a bracing, unified-field narrative. As well, he could turn him off, and Bannon would be tactically quiet until turn...
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Bannon last night who was saying how much Trump liked deputy crown prince: "Real guy's guy, he loved him. Thinks they can do stuff...
…B5-7C2FA9C1D18C Message: One of my favorites. : Replying to @ThisWeekABC @jonkarl Jon Karl was eaten alive by Bannon. Don't have guests on like Bannon if you don't have an interviewer who can match wits. Bannon is an awful man - a dishonest...
…lly just another effort to show that Trump was working and not just on a holiday. So why bother? What’s more, Bannon told Kelly, he could see the signs: the arrow on the Trump pressure cooker was climbing, and before long he’d blow. The new...
… had helped create the disruptiveness that seemed to so joyously shatter the status quo for so many. But now, Bannon thought, that novelty was finally wearing off. For Bannon, the Strange-Moore race had been a test of the Trump cult of pers...
… a federal court order to take down a monument of the Ten Commandments in the Alabama judicial building.) For Bannon, the president’s political thinking had been obtuse at best. He was unlikely to get anything from McConnell—and indeed Trum...
… into which he poured his anti-intelligence-community theories. During the early part of the transition, when Bannon and Kushner had seemed joined at the hip, this was part of their bond: an effort to disintermediate Flynn and his often pro...
…fective way to move him, which was to use the media. Hence each man became an inveterate and polished leaker. Bannon and Kushner studiously avoided press exposure; two of the most powerful people in government were, for the most part, entir...
10 GQLDMAN he Jarvanka side of the White House increasingly felt that rumors leaked by Bannon | and his allies were undermining them. Jared and Ivanka, ever eager to enhance their status as the adults in the room, felt personally wounded by...
One told us, “Bannon needs money to bankroll his political agenda. Epstein has plenty of money, and craves power and access.” Bannon made an early-morning beeline to Epstein, even though Bannon may have burned bridges when he savaged Ivanka...
…em,” said the president, with certain satisfaction and obvious truth. OOK Ok Ten days later, a large table of Bannonites was having dinner at the Bombay Club, a high- end Indian restaurant two blocks from the White House. One of the group—A...
