Trump unleashes on Bannon. Kind of hard to mend fences on this.
President Donald Trump unleashed on his former chief strategist and campaign chairman Wednesday, issuing a long and unusual statement questioning Stephen K. Bannon?s mental stability, honesty and political influence.
?Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind. Steve was a staffer who worked for me after I had already won the nomination by defeating seventeen candidates, often described as the most talented field ever assembled in the Republican party.?
Trump continued, ?Now that he is on his own, Steve is learning that winning isn?t as easy as I make it look. Steve had very little to do with our historic victory, which was delivered by the forgotten men and women of this country. Yet Steve had everything to do with the loss of a Senate seat in Alabama held for more than thirty years by Republicans. Steve doesn?t represent my base ? he?s only in it for himself.?
The statement from Trump came after Bannon criticized Trump and his family in recent interviews, mocking the president?s intellect, criticizing the operations of the White House and torching Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner and Donald Trump Jr. His most recent comments ? published in excerpts from a book by journalist Michael Wolff published online Wednesday ? came two weeks after a Bannon profile in Vanity Fair that infuriated the president and his senior aides.
President Donald Trump unleashed on his former chief strategist and campaign chairman Wednesday, issuing a long and unusual statement questioning Stephen K. Bannon?s mental stability, honesty and political influence.
?Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind. Steve was a staffer who worked for me after I had already won the nomination by defeating seventeen candidates, often described as the most talented field ever assembled in the Republican party.?
Trump continued, ?Now that he is on his own, Steve is learning that winning isn?t as easy as I make it look. Steve had very little to do with our historic victory, which was delivered by the forgotten men and women of this country. Yet Steve had everything to do with the loss of a Senate seat in Alabama held for more than thirty years by Republicans. Steve doesn?t represent my base ? he?s only in it for himself.?
The statement from Trump came after Bannon criticized Trump and his family in recent interviews, mocking the president?s intellect, criticizing the operations of the White House and torching Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner and Donald Trump Jr. His most recent comments ? published in excerpts from a book by journalist Michael Wolff published online Wednesday ? came two weeks after a Bannon profile in Vanity Fair that infuriated the president and his senior aides.
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