‘When He Was Fired, He Not Only Lost His Job, He Lost His Mind’
It didn’t take long for President Donald Trump to blast his former BFF, the man credited with helping him win the White House. In a lengthy statement Trump calls Bannon a “staffer,” instead of his former campaign CEO and his White House Chief Strategist. Earlier today in an excerpt from a new book Bannon is quoted as calling the Trump campaign a money laundering operation, and Trump Jr’s meeting with a Russian lawyer “treasonous.”
Clearly the president is not pleased.
“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,” Trump says in a statement, according to Bloomberg. Bannon worked as Trump chief strategist from January through August on 2017.
“When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind,” Trump continues, admitting he indeed fired his former strategist. Bannon had told reporters he had resigned weeks beforeleaving the White House.
“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.”
In truth, Bannon was Trump’s campaign CEO, not a staffer.
“Now that he is on his own,” Trump continues, “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.
Steve pretends to be at war with the media, which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at the White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was. It is the only thing he does well. Steve was rarely in a one-on-one meeting with me and only pretends to have had influence to fool a few people with no access and no clue, whom he helped write phony books.
We have many great Republican members of Congress and candidates who are very supportive of the Make America Great Again agenda. Like me, they love the United States of America and are helping to finally take our country back and build it up, rather than simply seeking to burn it all down.
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