FULL STATEMENT: Bannon says he’s ‘going to war for Trump’ after White House exit pic.twitter.com/e61m6bb74O— Josh Caplan (@joshdcaplan) August 18, 2017
I hope to God this is true:
In an interview with Bloomberg News, Bannon issued the following warning:
“If there’s any confusion out there, let me clear it up: I’m leaving the White House and going to war for Trump against his opponents — on capitol hill, in the media, and in corporate America,” Bannon said Friday in an interview hours after his departure was announced by the administration.
Breitbart News is reportedly plotting to go ‘thermonuclear’ against ‘globalists’ inside the Trump administration ...
Bannon may be personally gearing up to take on the Drudge Report’s Matt Drudge.
According to former Trump aide Sam Nunberg, Bannon believes Drudge ‘accelerated’ his White House exit driven by continuous negative coverage. Buzzfeed reports: Sources who have spoken to Bannon say the nationalist firebrand is expected to return to his old news site Breitbart.
And one person close to Bannon says he has his eye on who he believes helped accelerate his ouster: Matt Drudge.
“Matt Drudge worked to remove Steve Bannon, that is the reality,” said former Trump campaign adviser Sam Nunberg, who regularly talks with Bannon. “And I hope Matt is happy because his work helped Bannon not be in the West Wing, but it helped Democrats and people that didn’t vote for Trump be in the West Wing.”
Nunberg is specifically frustrated with the continued presence and influence of chief economic adviser Gary Cohn, National Security Adviser HR McMaster, and the duo he derisively calls Javanka, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.
Bannon has openly feuded with Cohn, and Breitbart has for weeks been waging a battle against McMaster.
Kushner developed a relationship with Drudge dating back to the campaign, and Bannon allies also blame the son-in-law for his ouster.
People close to Bannon say Bannon privately hoped Kushner would “go down” over the intensifying Russia investigation. But a source close to Kushner said anyone who thinks you can tell Matt Drudge what to do and have influence over him does not understand Matt Drudge.
Media relationships are important in the White House, Nunberg said, and the fact that Drudge hasn’t given Breitbart a hyperlink in months, and didn’t like Bannon.
“It’s not lost on Steve or Breitbart staff that Drudge was out for Steve,” Nunberg said.MORE:
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