‘Propagandist Loses Job for Telling the Truth Is One Hell of a Headline’
Steve Bannon Tuesday afternoon “stepped down” – some say was “canned” – as executive chairman of Breitbart, the far right wing website he ran that he once touted as the “platform for the alt-right.” Rumors had been swirling he would soon be out over his comments published in Michael Wolff‘s book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.” Among them, that Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with the Russians during his father’s campaign, inside Trump Tower no less, was “treasonous” and “unpatriotic.” “They’re going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV,” Bannon says in the book.
Support for Bannon tumbled. Rebekah Mercer, the billionaire financier that had “poured money” into Breitbart, pulled her support from Bannon and distanced herself from him. President Trump reportedly has been calling conservatives demanding they choose: Bannon or Trump. And Trump won.
Not only did Bannon lose his gig at Breitbart, he lost his radio gig at SiriusXM:
Oh, and possibly his bed:
The New Republic last year wrote, “Steve Bannon is absolutely culpable for Breitbart’s racism, sexism, and anti-Semitism,” although with his ouster it’s not like those points of view will disappear from Breitbart.
Unsurprisingly, many on Twitter are ecstatic. After all, some feel Bannon has done great damage to the nation. He’s normalized the alt-right, he’s advanced white nationalism inside the White House, and he’s advanced an anti-women, anti-liberal, and anti-Muslim racist agenda.
Here are some of the best tweets celebrating Bannon’s downfall.
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