Trump Tells Aides He Has Decided to Remove Stephen Bannon

New York Times ^ | August 18, 2017 | MAGGIE HABERMAN

[MayflowerMadam]

Reason #4: Ivanka and Jared get their way and have even more power.

[ObozoMustGo2012]

Steve Bannon was a Naval officer. He’s well aware of how to answer to a military guy.

I highly doubt that has anything to do with it.

[Hawthorn]

>> who was a career military guy and civil servant <<

Sorry, but you can’t be both. It’s gotta be one way or the other.

[MayflowerMadam]

ABC Steven Miller is there via Sessions. I hope Miller doesn’t go all squishy the way Sessions has.

[King of Florida]

After what he said about North Korea, I knew he was on borrowed time. Not wise of him.

That, and calling an element of Trump's base "a collection of clowns" and "losers." Elitism has its own special stench.

[FreeReign]

To me, it always seemed that something didn't smell quite right about Bannon. But I liked Briebart so assumed that Bannon was okay.

If Bannon is replaced by a real small government, anti swamp person, then I have no problem with it.

So what are the chances of that happening?

For Trump to succeed, he needs to make such a selection.

[Alberta's Child]

He was both. He was a military guy, and now he's a civilian employee.

Maybe my use of "and" was confusing.

[Alberta's Child]

The biggest knock on Bannon was that he looked more than a little similar to Michael Moore. LOL.

[Alberta's Child]

Steve Bannon became fabulously wealthy after his brief military career. Successful executives don’t waste their time with a bureaucracy.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

No, it’s staff who can function under a controlled structure. If I were Chief of Staff or Communications Director and discovered that Brannon had on his own spoken to a press person...any press about any subject...I’d be in his office demanding his resignation immediately. But that’s the lack of control that personified this White House for six months. Such an operation is total chaos.

I don’t care if you’re a globalist, nationalist, scientologist, geologist or cosmetologist, if you don’t operate within the structure of the organization, you are gone. Today not tomorrow.

[AndyJackson]

The second I heard the statement about no military solution to NK I figured he was a goner.

Anyone who understands anything about nuclear deterrence knows you cannot have that kind of stuff going around. Our posture was "locked and loaded" and "fire and fury," not "we've got nothing, let's talk about it."

Nuclear deterence is a deep and very complicated subject. For professionals on the subject it starts with Thomas Schelling, Arms and Influence:

If Bannon hadn't read and understood it he should have kept his mouth shut and if he had he should have known to keep his mouth shut.

As Don Corleone said in Godfather 1, you keep this stuff inside the family.

[Mase]

Any word on Jared and Ivanka?

[proust]

He already resigned before that. He wanted to get a jab in on the way out.

[Drew68]

It's over. The swamp won.

[proust]

They are sitting comfy today as always.

[RummyChick]

But LS is claiming kelly aad trump approved the Interview

[oincobx]

And then there were two.

[txhurl]

Posobiec: Bannon: “I am going to go medieval on enemies of Trump now”

[SE Mom]

Not that I’ve seen.

I’ll make an assumption, however.

Wherever they are, they’re smug. And celebrating.

[heights]

It is the Worse Timing in History. This will just Embolden the Leftist media. I just can’t believe s*** like this.