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Wow, Trump turns on Bannon big time. A bad idea on Trump's part since former associates like Bannon could have dirt galore on Trump, impeachment level dirt. Trump's peevish and vindictive nature could be his undoing -



>>> Trump attacks Steve Bannon: 'He not only lost his job, he lost his mind'


•The president downplays Bannon's role in his campaign and electoral win, saying "Steve is learning that winning isn't as easy as I make it look."

•Bannon earlier called a meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer "treasonous."


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Jacob Pramuk

CNBC.com



https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/03/trump-disavows-steve-bannon-he-not-only-lost-his-job-he-lost-his-mind.html


President Donald Trump savaged his former chief strategist Steve Bannon on Wednesday, contending that "he not only lost his job" but also "lost his mind" when he left the White House.

On Wednesday, excerpts from an upcoming Michael Wolff book showed that Bannon called a June 2016 meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer "treasonous" and "unpatriotic." Bannon, who did not join the Trump campaign until August 2016, also said there was "zero" chance that then-candidate Trump did not meet with the attendees.

In a statement Wednesday, the president said Bannon — the nationalist firebrand — "had very little to do" with his electoral victory in 2016. Trump added that "Steve is learning that winning isn't as easy as I make it look."

"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," Trump said of Bannon, the executive chairman of right-wing news outlet Breitbart News.

"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," he added.

Bannon served as Trump campaign chief executive during the final months of the election. He is credited with helping to hone Trump's nationalism and economic populism as a candidate and president.

Bannon left the White House in August and eventually returned to Breitbart. He championed Republican Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, who defeated incumbent Sen. Luther Strange in the GOP primary before losing to now-Democratic Sen. Doug Jones in a special election in December.

In his statement Wednesday, Trump said Bannon "had everything to do with the loss of a Senate seat in Alabama held for more than thirty years by Republicans." Trump first supported Strange, then supported Moore over Jones.

Bannon had heavily criticized the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower, which the president's eldest son helped to set up. Attendees included Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, Trump advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner and campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

The meeting has figured in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election and whether the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow. <<<