Steve Bannon Resigns from Breitbart
Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
January 10, 2018
After using the word “treason” to refer to a meeting at Trump Tower with a Russian lawyer in a quote from this new “Fire and Fury” book, Steve Bannon has been forced out of the company that he built.
There is literally no way that if this man’s mind had been sound that he wouldn’t have seen this coming.
Steve Bannon has stepped down as executive chairman of Breitbart News. SiriusXM has now also cancelled his radio show, as “the agreement is with Breitbart.”
The big picture: Trump got his scalp. He forced everyone inside and close to the White House to make a binary choice: “it’s me or Steve.” For everyone, including some of Bannon’s close allies, it was an easy choice. Almost everyone abandoned Bannon.
Between the lines:
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This was the Mercers forcing his hand. It wasn’t just Bannon’s quotes to Wolff but how he mishandled the fallout. He took five days to issue a weak apology, which fell flat.
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Right up until today Steve was telling associates everything was going to be fine (but he always does that when he’s under the gun.) But his associates knew this was coming. The Mercers had turned against him months ago.
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Per source close to the White House: “God, I can’t believe the whole movement just collapsed on this guy. He’s done.”
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Per a former WH ally of Bannon’s: “I’ve gone from being sympathetic to Steve to believing he’s a genuinely bad guy, totally duplicitous. It’s a shame. He has a lot of talent. But his self-destructive streak is unlike anything I’ve ever seen.”
Steve destroyed his entire life and any legacy that he might leave.
For what?
Honestly, he could have come out against Trump by attacking him on immigration and/or foreign policy and no one would have blamed him. I mean, a few people might have blamed him, but he wouldn’t have destroyed his entire life.
Then the really crazy part is that after the book was published, he could have rushed a statement saying “blah blah blah taken out of context, I support the President and think the Russia stuff is a hoax” – and no one would have even blamed him. Trump is basically claiming that the entire book is made up, calling it “a work of fiction,” so Bannon saying that Wolff misquoted him for defamation purposes would have been easily accepted – even if he did actually say the stuff it would have been accepted, even by Trump.
So it’s a bizarre thing all around. It can only be viewed as the man purposefully destroying himself, and I’m not sure why. It’s just some kind of weird personal thing.
I mean, you could come up with an infinite number of conspiracy theories here. Like, he could have been threatened into doing this, I guess. Or he could have been the victim of some kind of Mossad program to drive him insane. I guess it is interesting to think about that, given how shocking the entire situation is, but the bottom line is that it is what it is.
RIP Steve
