I was going to start a related thread...but I'll just use yours.
YES, removing Bannon from the NSC (which should have NEVER happened in the first place)...is a great move.
The excuse given that Bannon was only there to keep an eye on Flynn anyway, is so disturbing however...as to strain credulity.
The REAL story now, is the apparent backstage power struggle...between Bannon and Kushner.
Power Dynamics At Play In White House - Yahoo
Quote:
After the news broke that President Donald Trump’s chief strategist Steven Bannon had been strong-armed out of the National Security Council (NSC) by his adversaries Wednesday, the announcement had many wondering: If Bannon really was Trump’s most trusted advisor, where did that leave the power in the White House?
Bannon, for his part, claimed he wasn’t worried about losing his influence. “I love a gunfight,” he said, according to Axios. And he won’t be kicked out of the president’s inner circle, nor will he be losing his title.
Still, this bit of news didn’t convince everyone, and many news outlets wrote about the shifting power dynamics in the White House. The two people who reportedly pushed Bannon off the NSC were National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster and Senior Advisor Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law.
Over the past few months, a narrative of clashing forces in the White House has developed by different sources over the past few months.
And that power struggle has, more-or-less, been delineated into two groups: the far-right, anti-establishment renegades (Bannon, counselor Kellyanne Conway, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, advisor Stephen Miller) and the figures who represent more traditionally conservative and moderate-leaning figures (McMaster, Kushner, Trump’s daughter and senior advisor Ivanka Trump).
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What will be fun to watch, is how Brietbart is sure to go after Kushner and protect their own (Bannon) in the coming weeks/months and how much Trump continues to believe what Brietbart writes, which up until now...Trump has taken as gospel every cockamamie conspiracy theory Brietbart spews.
