Steve Bannon

Trump Orders Isis Plan, Gives Bannon Role In Revamped National Security Council

... already been playing a major role in directing Trump's foreign policy, administration officials say, and joined the president in the Oval Office on Saturday for his calls with Putin and several other world leaders. In their call, Putin and Trump discussed Ukraine and Syria, and they agreed to build stronger economic ties between the United States and Russia, according to a statement issued by the Kremlin. They said they would arrange an in-person meeting, but Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the Interfax news agency that the two presidents did not specifically talk about a lifting of the sanctions the Obama administration imposed against Russia over Russian interference in the U. S. presidential election and Moscow's military intervention in Ukraine. Eliminating the sanctions is a priority for Moscow, but Trump is under pressure in the United States to maintain them and said Friday that he thought it was premature to consider ...

No, Steve Bannon, The Media Won’t Keep Its Mouth Shut

... of former Obama aide and consultant Anita Dunn, who in 2009 said, "We're going to treat them (the press) the way we would treat an opponent. As they are undertaking a war against Barack Obama and the White House." She was, the Fox crew conceded, talking about one media entity alone, namely theirs. CNN's New Day focused on the "ruptured relationship" with Mexico, as David Gregory put it. "There seems to be no need for this to be so provocative with Mexico but that's the way he's started," said David Gregory. MSNBC's Morning Joe delved into the import tax side of the Trump Mexican plan. Steve Rattner argued that import taxes would constitute revenue that merely makes up for what you lose in cutting the corporate tax rate. And Mika Brzezinski noted how during Sean Hannity's interview with Trump last night, courtesan Hannity readily agreed with Trump that torture of terrorist suspects works. That puts both of them at total odds ...

The Chaos Presidency, Brought To You By Steven Bannon

... the hell is going on? By the time you read this, I’m pretty sure everything I’ve said will be out of date. It’s chaos. Most executive orders, including those signed by President Trump earlier in the week, such as his declaration that a border wall with Mexico will be built, have little immediate impact. Consider that President Obama signed an executive order directing the closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention center his first week in office. The detention center remains open. But the chaos generated by this order seems entirely foreseeable and indeed could’ve been easily avoided by including a provision exempting those with green cards or valid visas acquired prior to the order’s signing. [1] Press Secretary Sean Spicer tried to pass off the order as a reaction to an “imminent threat,” but this is clearly an ex post facto justification. Actions to prevent imminent threats flow from Homeland Security upward, not the Oval Office down. If you could do ...

Steve Bannon’s War On The Press

... in the press has fallen to a historic low, many lower courts have become less favorable to reporters, and the Supreme Court hasn’t taken on a major press case in more than a decade. “Like so much of our democracy, the freedom of the press is only as strong as we, the public, demand it to be,” Anderson and West wrote. Fortunately, large numbers of Americans are rallying behind the media just when their support is most needed. The unprecedented protest marches all across the country last weekend demonstrated the existence of a huge and active popular resistance, which is urging the press to hold Trump to account. While Bannon may be tempted to portray the marchers as out-of-touch intellectual-property lawyers and globalists, their sheer numbers belie such a description. (According to some accounts , Saturday’s marches were the biggest political demonstration in American history.) As Trump’s Presidency gets under way, marches ...

As Steve Bannon Rose To Power, His Ex-wife Struggled With Drugs And Violence In Miami

... residences on early forms. In 2006, she and Bannon moved into a $1.3 million apartment in a luxury Manhattan high-rise. The couple sold the home in 2008 and divorced the next year. That divorce file isn't available, but Miami-Dade court records suggest Clohesy might have been dating another man since 2007. Describing himself as Clohesy’s boyfriend of two years, a Miami man named Pedro Garcia Jr. twice accused her of domestic violence in 2009. Following a physical altercation that March, Clohesy was arrested and ordered by a judge to stay away from Garcia. Court records show prosecutors ultimately dismissed the misdemeanor battery charge. The two apparently patched things up, and in October 2009, Clohesy moved into Garcia’s condo on the third floor of a building off the 79 th Street Causeway, just east of Biscayne Boulevard. But only two weeks later, Garcia filed for a restraining order, saying Clohesy had ...

White House Strategist Steve Bannon Sets Up Fight With News Media

... to remain calm. FOLKENFLIK: Rhodes says the media has to hold to the same principles and standards as ever. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING). RHODES: There's always a tendency at the start of an administration - and this one I think in some ways is actually no different - to try to take messages directly around the press. FOLKENFLIK: As president, Trump's tweets are being treated as breaking news by cable channels. No new administration has had so many ways to circumvent the media, and none in recent memory has criticized journalists so bluntly and so routinely. Here Trump was Wednesday with ABC's David Muir. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING). PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. Pro-life people, and they say the press doesn't cover them. DAVID MUIR: I don't want to compare crowd sizes again. TRUMP: No, you shouldn't. MUIR: I. TRUMP: But let me just tell you. What they do say is that the press doesn't cover them. FOLKENFLIK: The Republican public relations consultant Kurt Bardella says Bannon concluded that the media would be a perfect foil for Trump. Bardella worked daily for Bannon as a consultant for Breitbart News. KURT BARDELLA: What they're ...

Stephen Bannon’s Quiet Power Grab

... The Washington Post reports. The move marks the latest in a string of events signaling Bannon’s ascent to power in the West Wing. In the little over a week since Trump delivered his divisive inaugural address dripping within populist rhetoric, the president has signed a slew of executive orders written by Bannon and White House advisor for policy Stephen Miller, notably, Friday’s immigration order that incited a swift backlash. CNN reports that before the order was issued, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly and the Department of Homeland Security reached the conclusion that Trump’s executive action did not apply to green card holders from the seven countries—Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, Libya, Iran, and Iraq—but Bannon and Miller overruled that decision, and said that the D. H. S. would allow entry to green card holders on a case-by-case basis. (During an interview with NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday, Priebus ...

Steve Bannon Personally Overruled Dhs Decision Not To Include Green Card Holders In Travel Ban

... personally overruled DHS decision not to include green card holders in travel ban: CNN. Stephen K. Bannon of Breitbart News (You Tube). Don't miss stories. Follow Raw Story. Follow @rawstory. Steve Bannon, a senior adviser to President Donald Trump, personally overruled a decision by the Department of Homeland Security not to include green card holders in the president’s temporary ban on travel from Muslim countries. Protests erupted at airports across the country over the weekend after DHS agents began enforcing an executive order signed by Trump by detaining legal permanent residents who were returning from abroad. On Saturday, a federal judge stayed the detentions and ordered the green card holders to be released, but CNN reported that the mayhem could have been avoided if the White House had listened to the guidance of DHS lawyers in the first place. Documents obtained by CNN showed that DHS initially determined that “lawful permanent residents are not included and may continue to travel to the ...

Bannon Was Registered To Vote In Two States

... actually living on his property, as is required under the registration rules of the Florida Division of Elections. Bannon did not cast a ballot in Florida, according to state records. Trump specifically mentioned voters registered in two states on Wednesday while calling for a “major” investigation of alleged voter fraud nationwide. “I will be asking for a major investigation into VOTER FRAUD, including those registered to vote in two states, those who are illegal and…even those registered to vote who are dead (and many for a long time),” he tweeted. "Depending on results, we will strengthen up voting procedures!”. Trump reignited national debate over voter fraud this week when he falsely claimed that he lost the 2016 presidential election’s popular vote due to fraud by “illegals.". Democratic presidential nominee  Hillary Clinton  won the popular vote by more than 2.8 million votes, but Trump won the Electoral College. Several lawmakers have since disputed the president's claims ...

Steve Bannon Hires Breitbart Writer Julia Hahn, One Of Paul Ryan’s Fiercest Critics, As A White House Aide

... elect Hillary Clinton,” according to The Washington Post on Monday. “She’ll be Bannon’s Bannon and make Bannon look moderate,” said conservative writer and editor at large of the Weekly Standard William Kristol when talking to The Post. “Her tendency is to fight and fight, often to the extreme.”. The Post also claims that “a number of House Republicans” confided to the newspaper that they believe Bannon’s hiring of Hahn is a sign that he could go on the attack against them if they defy Trump’s will. “This is obviously a provocative act and clearly an intentional act,” said Peter Wehner, an official who has worked for three Republican presidents and is a personal friend of Ryan’s. “Bannon is willing to napalm the bridges with congressional Republicans.” He also added that many Republican congressmen are making the mistake of believing that “Bannon and Trump aren’t taken seriously even though Bannon and Trump are operating in ...

Trump's Immigration Fiasco Might Be More Premeditated Than We Think

... tidbit that makes me wonder if the chaos attending the rollout was quite as unintended as we think. Friday night, DHS arrived at the legal interpretation that the executive order restrictions applying to seven countries — Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Sudan and Yemen — did not apply to people who with lawful permanent residence, generally referred to as green card holders. The White House overruled that guidance overnight, according to officials familiar with the rollout. That order came from the President's inner circle, led by Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon. Their decision held that, on a case by case basis, DHS could allow green card holders to enter the US. The decision to apply the executive order to green card holders, including those in transit, is almost insane. Whatever else he is, ...