Trump faces 'open warfare' with Breitbart if Bannon is fired, says former executive of the far-right

[Judi Lynn]

Trump faces 'open warfare' with Breitbart if Bannon is fired, says former executive of the far-right website
West Wing feud between 'nationalist' Bannon and 'globalist' Kushner reportedly comes to a head over Syrian air strikes

Rachel Roberts 2 hours ago





A former Breibart executive has warned it will be “open warfare” against Donald Trump’s team if his son-in-law Jared Kushner forces out Steve Bannon following reports of a fierce West Wing feud.

Chief strategist, Mr Bannon, who founded the far-right Breibart website, was removed from the National Security Council this week amid widespread reports of clashes with senior adviser Mr Kushner, who is married to the President’s daughter Ivanka.

During a discussion on the reported in-fighting between Mr Trump's two closest advisers, former Breibart employee Kurt Bardella said the cold reaction of the nationalistic “Bannonoite” wing of the party to the air strikes against Syria is a clear sign they fear their man is losing his influence over the President.

The Bannonist wing of Mr Trump's supporters are thought to be mostly opposed to military intervention in Syria because they do not see how it advances his pledge to "put America first".

More:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/war-donald-trump-team-steve-bannon-jared-kushner-cuck-globalist-syria-strikes-west-wing-fight-kurt-a7674631.html

[trixie2]

1. Words I would never have expected I would say

Go Jared!

[Lucky Luciano]

6. He went to Jared!! If so, it breaks the back of the Mercer's. nt

[LisaM]

2. Well deserved.

Breitbart enabled fake news helped get this jackass elected.

[gordianot]

3. What is the maximum damage possible to each side?

[Warpy]

4. And Brietbart will discover what a pimple on the ass of the media it is

Yeah, go to it, let's you and him fight.

More popcorn!

[elleng]

5. !!!let's you and him fight!!!

[MBS]

7. Josh Marshall's take: it's all about the Family Kleptocracy

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-inc-making-bannon-an-offer-he-can-t-refuse

. . . Personal political interest is always in tension with ideology for every politician. But there is something qualitatively different here. What is I think being accurately described is an understanding of the "interests of the president" which is entirely separate not only from "ideology" but what we'd likely consider even the broadest sort of political viewpoint and belief. The "interests of the president" here is being popular, having strong poll numbers, 'winning' as Trump himself might put it. Bannon is putting "ideology" ahead of that.

This is superficially like calculations all or most politicians make. But again it's qualitatively different. Here there really is no tension. . . .This . . . is a vision of politics or ideology as a mere product line which is by definition inherently secondary to the interests of the company bottom line.

It goes to the heart of the Family, Brand-driven, Kleptocratic nature of the Trump White House. The core aim is for the President to be popular, to succeed, a goal in key ways even more important to the thirty-something Kushner/Trumps than the 70 year old President. Politics or policy and ideology, whatever you want to call it, is changeable and secondary, just as Trump can shift from authoritarian isolationist to faux values driven internationalist in a day and a half. This is precisely what you'd expect from people who were probably apolitical or perhaps, if pushed, something like Bloomberg Democrats and then became executors of a far-right, blood and soil, racist nationalist political program. Words and policy have no meaning. What matters is protecting and maximizing the value of the new family acquisition: the presidency.