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Report: Trump Won't Fire Bannon Out Of Fear
The future of Steve Bannon's continued employment in the White House as Donald Trump's top political strategist has been an open question for months. But the former Breitbart News head Bannon has time and again avoided a dismissal even as calls for it intensified after Trump’s reactions and statements to the protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend.
The president’s decision to keep Bannon, who called his former news website a platform for the so-called “alt-right,” has perplexed many as Bannon’s faced accusations of being a white nationalist.
The possible reason Trump has opted to keep Bannon on may be relatively simple: fear.
The struggling billionaire president is reportedly scared that if he did send Bannon packing that he could become a vocal critic of the administration once free of its political inner-workings, Reuters reported late Tuesday.
"The president obviously is very nervous and afraid of firing him," an unnamed source close to the White House told Reuters.
The supposed fear stems from Bannon’s influence over a nationalist Trump base that many have claimed handed him the White House last year, as evidenced by Trump’s campaign promises of cracking down on immigration and renegotiating global trade deals that were labeled as more isolationist by critics.
There are also reports that even Bannon’s allies in the White House are moving away from him, like senior policy adviser Stephen Miller and presidential assistant Julia Hahn, according to The Daily Beast.
The fear could be real or not as many political operatives tend to gravitate toward media jobs following their departure, like former Press Secretary Josh Earnest, who is regularly appearing on MSNBC. CNN even announced after former Trump Press Secretary Sean Spicer stepped down that it would not be hiring him.
Indeed, there’s a chance that rather than outright firing Bannon, Trump could demote him to avoid upsetting the aforementioned base, according to the report.
It’s a base that includes white supremacists and nationalists, as well as neo-Nazis, groups that Trump did not immediately condemn Saturday following the death of counter-protester Heather Heyer while saying the violence in the college town was on “many sides.”
Two days later, Trump specifically derided the hate groups in a press conference and condemned bigotry of any kind.
But Trump later walked back those comments during another press conference Tuesday, during which he said the “alt-left” had also been responsible for the violence and accused the media of not accurately reporting it. Those comments brought new criticism on Trump and his administration, with reports indicating that the president was supposed to stick to discussing his much-anticipated plan to revamp the country’s infrastructure but instead veered off on his own.
Trump also said Tuesday that Bannon was a “friend” and “not a racist,” and that “we would see about Mr. Bannon,” who he denied speaking with over the weekend before and during the political fallout from the initial response to Charlottesville.
For now, Bannon’s job appears to be safe, according to The New York Times on Wednesday, which also reported that the idea Bannon is pulling Trump’s strings is wrong.
But the political infighting and media backstabbing that has taken place between Bannon and national security adviser and Lieutenant Gen. H.R. McMaster—and previously White House senior adviser and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner—has bubbled up so much that it could be greatly affecting the president’s agenda.
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Report: Trump Won't Fire Bannon Out Of Fear
© REUTERS/Carlos Barria White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon (R) and National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster arrive for a joint news conference between U.S. President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in the Oval…
The future of Steve Bannon's continued employment in the White House as Donald Trump's top political strategist has been an open question for months. But the former Breitbart News head Bannon has time and again avoided a dismissal even as calls for it intensified after Trump’s reactions and statements to the protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend.
The president’s decision to keep Bannon, who called his former news website a platform for the so-called “alt-right,” has perplexed many as Bannon’s faced accusations of being a white nationalist.
The possible reason Trump has opted to keep Bannon on may be relatively simple: fear.
The struggling billionaire president is reportedly scared that if he did send Bannon packing that he could become a vocal critic of the administration once free of its political inner-workings, Reuters reported late Tuesday.
"The president obviously is very nervous and afraid of firing him," an unnamed source close to the White House told Reuters.
The supposed fear stems from Bannon’s influence over a nationalist Trump base that many have claimed handed him the White House last year, as evidenced by Trump’s campaign promises of cracking down on immigration and renegotiating global trade deals that were labeled as more isolationist by critics.
There are also reports that even Bannon’s allies in the White House are moving away from him, like senior policy adviser Stephen Miller and presidential assistant Julia Hahn, according to The Daily Beast.
The fear could be real or not as many political operatives tend to gravitate toward media jobs following their departure, like former Press Secretary Josh Earnest, who is regularly appearing on MSNBC. CNN even announced after former Trump Press Secretary Sean Spicer stepped down that it would not be hiring him.
Indeed, there’s a chance that rather than outright firing Bannon, Trump could demote him to avoid upsetting the aforementioned base, according to the report.
It’s a base that includes white supremacists and nationalists, as well as neo-Nazis, groups that Trump did not immediately condemn Saturday following the death of counter-protester Heather Heyer while saying the violence in the college town was on “many sides.”
Two days later, Trump specifically derided the hate groups in a press conference and condemned bigotry of any kind.
But Trump later walked back those comments during another press conference Tuesday, during which he said the “alt-left” had also been responsible for the violence and accused the media of not accurately reporting it. Those comments brought new criticism on Trump and his administration, with reports indicating that the president was supposed to stick to discussing his much-anticipated plan to revamp the country’s infrastructure but instead veered off on his own.
Trump also said Tuesday that Bannon was a “friend” and “not a racist,” and that “we would see about Mr. Bannon,” who he denied speaking with over the weekend before and during the political fallout from the initial response to Charlottesville.
For now, Bannon’s job appears to be safe, according to The New York Times on Wednesday, which also reported that the idea Bannon is pulling Trump’s strings is wrong.
But the political infighting and media backstabbing that has taken place between Bannon and national security adviser and Lieutenant Gen. H.R. McMaster—and previously White House senior adviser and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner—has bubbled up so much that it could be greatly affecting the president’s agenda.
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这下Bannon走定了，不是周末就是一周内。
Report: Trump Won't Fire Bannon Out Of Fear
© REUTERS/Carlos Barria White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon (R) and National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster arrive for a joint news conference between U.S. President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in the Oval…
The future of Steve Bannon's continued employment in the White House as Donald Trump's top political strategist has been an open question for months. But the former Breitbart News head Bannon has time and again avoided a dismissal even as calls for it intensified after Trump’s reactions and statements to the protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend.
The president’s decision to keep Bannon, who called his former news website a platform for the so-called “alt-right,” has perplexed many as Bannon’s faced accusations of being a white nationalist.
The possible reason Trump has opted to keep Bannon on may be relatively simple: fear.
The struggling billionaire president is reportedly scared that if he did send Bannon packing that he could become a vocal critic of the administration once free of its political inner-workings, Reuters reported late Tuesday.
"The president obviously is very nervous and afraid of firing him," an unnamed source close to the White House told Reuters.
The supposed fear stems from Bannon’s influence over a nationalist Trump base that many have claimed handed him the White House last year, as evidenced by Trump’s campaign promises of cracking down on immigration and renegotiating global trade deals that were labeled as more isolationist by critics.
There are also reports that even Bannon’s allies in the White House are moving away from him, like senior policy adviser Stephen Miller and presidential assistant Julia Hahn, according to The Daily Beast.
The fear could be real or not as many political operatives tend to gravitate toward media jobs following their departure, like former Press Secretary Josh Earnest, who is regularly appearing on MSNBC. CNN even announced after former Trump Press Secretary Sean Spicer stepped down that it would not be hiring him.
Indeed, there’s a chance that rather than outright firing Bannon, Trump could demote him to avoid upsetting the aforementioned base, according to the report.
It’s a base that includes white supremacists and nationalists, as well as neo-Nazis, groups that Trump did not immediately condemn Saturday following the death of counter-protester Heather Heyer while saying the violence in the college town was on “many sides.”
Two days later, Trump specifically derided the hate groups in a press conference and condemned bigotry of any kind.
But Trump later walked back those comments during another press conference Tuesday, during which he said the “alt-left” had also been responsible for the violence and accused the media of not accurately reporting it. Those comments brought new criticism on Trump and his administration, with reports indicating that the president was supposed to stick to discussing his much-anticipated plan to revamp the country’s infrastructure but instead veered off on his own.
Trump also said Tuesday that Bannon was a “friend” and “not a racist,” and that “we would see about Mr. Bannon,” who he denied speaking with over the weekend before and during the political fallout from the initial response to Charlottesville.
For now, Bannon’s job appears to be safe, according to The New York Times on Wednesday, which also reported that the idea Bannon is pulling Trump’s strings is wrong.
But the political infighting and media backstabbing that has taken place between Bannon and national security adviser and Lieutenant Gen. H.R. McMaster—and previously White House senior adviser and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner—has bubbled up so much that it could be greatly affecting the president’s agenda.
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There's a weary sameness now to the coverage of President Donald Trump, not that it's the fault of the people doing the covering.
How many times can you ask and answer the same questions? Is he a hypocrite? Does he lie?
He is, and he does. Hypocrisy oozes from him like pus from a septic infection.
And what were once silly mendacities about crowd sizes or being secretly bugged by Barack Obama have now become uglier, more seditious things, reminiscent of his racist lie about the Obama family's secret conspiracy to conceal the fact that their son was born abroad — somewhere, you know, black and Muslim — and therefore was ineligible for the presidency.
Trump said there was plenty of blame to go around for what happened in Charlottesville over the weekend. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
Were Trump still merely one of the business world's foremost mountebanks, or a cheapjack TV star, the matter would be settled, and unremarkable. There are many such people, and it's easy to turn your back and ignore them.
But Donald Trump is a man of unequalled power. He can, and probably will, attack other countries. He occupies an office Americans hold in almost religious regard.
So each new lie, each putrid outburst, every carefully coded racist or sexist utterance, has to somehow be squared with the title he holds.
Put bluntly, the slight minority of Americans who voted for Trump are getting exactly what they asked for.
Surely to goodness some of them must be looking in the mirror and reflecting on the small part they played in unleashing tribal hatreds in their Shining City on the Hill.
They wanted a man who would courageously stand up and shout "radical Islamic terror," a term the pusillanimous establishment politicians tried to avoid, for fear of further encouraging religious hatred.
Well, they got him. And he shouted that phrase to the heavens. But when a clean-cut young racist, one of those people who complain that America's "white European" (read: Christian) heritage is threatened, murderously aimed his powerful car at a crowd, seeking to advance a political agenda, precisely as the "radical Islamic terrorists" have been doing lately in Europe, what did Trump have to say?
Asked if it was terrorism, he oozed this reply: "You can call it terrorism. You can call it murder. You can call it whatever you want. … Is it murder? Is it terrorism? Then you get into legal semantics."
Uh-huh. By Trump's method of crudely defining and categorizing people, it was radical Christian terror, or at least radical terror by a man raised in a Christian family. But of course that cannot exist, because no real Christian would do such a thing.
The white supremacists and neo-Nazis, according to Trump, were attacked by the "very, very violent" members of what he called the "alt-left." (Joshua Roberts/Reuters)
Trump then returned to his original reaction: that there was plenty of blame to go around for what happened in Charlottesville over the weekend, when hundreds of neo-Nazis, angry people "of European descent" and garden-variety racists marched into the university town yelling about Jews and the need to maintain white ascendancy.
Trump, to the utter astonishment of decent-minded Americans, actually conflated this herd of swine with the protesters who met them. It was an exercise in moral equivalence, a semantic trick conservatives despise when the left uses it.
It reminded me of the oily pronouncements Yasser Arafat and his satraps used to issue whenever a nail-packed bomb would erupt in a Tel Aviv discotheque or a Jerusalem pizzeria, leaving the corpses and body parts of children and teens strewn knee-deep on the street.
We denounce all violence of all kinds by all sides, they would say.
Or: We do not condone it, but we understand it.
(Israeli authorities used more or less the same language after some atrocity by extremist settlers or soldiers).
It was meant to be clever, and reassuring to their base, but to anyone with a shred of decency, it stank of incitement.
Prominent members of Trump's own party are turning from him in disgust over the Charlottesville episode. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters)
Trump's weekend reaction to Charlottesville was no different. True, his advisers persuaded him later to issue an anodyne denunciation of the white supremacists who adore him so deeply (many in Charlottesville wore his demagogue-y "Make America Great Again" cap), but he quickly and angrily returned to moral equivalence by Tuesday.
The white supremacists and neo-Nazis, according to Trump, were attacked by the "very, very violent" members of what he called the "alt-left," who, he said, arrived "swinging clubs," intent on criminal mayhem.
Well. It is true the so-called Antifa movement does not follow the teachings of Gandhi, or Martin Luther King, counting on meekness and absorption of violence, or pacifism, to defeat violence. Some of them push back, hard.
But Antifa tactics fall far short of driving a car into a crowd, and they don't show up with assault rifles on their backs and bandoliers of ammo (although they might consider it, just for self-preservation, because sooner or later some of those heavily armed far-right "militia" types will open fire in the name of white European-heritage rights).
Trump also questioned why Charlottesville would want to remove the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, who led the fight to preserve slavery.
Who will be next, Trump asked? Jefferson? Washington?
That was actually a good question. Both of those former presidents owned slaves. Jefferson sired a child on one, which had to qualify as rape, given a slave's inability to form proper consent.
But expunging history, as some on the left demand, is impossible. The correct path is to let its artifacts stand and serve as reminders. Auschwitz, for example, has not been bulldozed.
Recently, the New Yorker ran an analysis piece suggesting that Americans are so divided and filled with loathing for each other that a civil conflict is probably inevitable.
I tend to agree. And if that does happen, it will without question have been egged on by the current president.
Prominent members of his own party – House Speaker Paul Ryan, Sen. Marco Rubio, Sen. John McCain, Sen. Lindsey Graham, along with a slew of lesser-known Republicans – are turning from him in disgust over the Charlottesville episode.
Trump either ignores them, or issues threats and insults.
Deeply conservative writers like Charles Krauthammer call him a disgrace to the office. Trump yells, "fake news!"
The captains of industry on two of his business advisory councils distanced themselves, so Trump, after lashing out at a few of them, shrugged and disbanded the councils.
Soon enough, he will be alone, surrounded only by his admiring fellow racists. But he will still be governing from the Oval Office.
It bears repeating. Americans got what they asked for. And it oozes.
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Apple boss Tim Cook joins Donald Trump condemnation
Apple chief executive Tim Cook has become the latest boss to criticise President Donald Trump over his response to the white nationalist rallies in Virginia.
Mr Cook said he did not agree there was a "moral equivalence" between white supremacists and "those who oppose them".
Mr Trump has disbanded two business councils after top bosses resigned.
Mr Cook said Apple will also make donations to human rights charities.
In an email to staff obtained by BuzzFeed News Mr Cook said: "I disagree with the president and others who believe that there is a moral equivalence between white supremacists and Nazis, and those who oppose them by standing up for human rights.
"Equating the two runs counter to our ideals as Americans."
He added that "in the wake of the tragic and repulsive events in Charlottesville, we are stepping up to help organisations who work to rid our country of hate".
Apple will donate $1m to both the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League. It will also match two-for-one any staff donations to these and several other human rights groups until 30 September, Mr Cook said.
On Wednesday, Mr Trump said he was scrapping two business councils after more bosses quit over his handling of the violent clashes in Virginia.
Business leaders left the White House manufacturing council after the backlash against how he reacted to the far-right rally last weekend.
The clashes culminated in a woman's death and nearly 20 wounded when a car ploughed into a crowd of anti-fascist protesters.
Mr Trump's reaction has sparked outrage and generated global headlines.
His announcement on Twitter came as the heads of 3M, Campbell Soup, Johnson & Johnson and United Technologies announced their resignations on Wednesday.
Denise Morrison of Campbell Soup was the eighth CEO to resign from a White House business panel
Mr Trump said: "Rather than putting pressure on the businesspeople of the Manufacturing Council & Strategy & Policy Forum, I am ending both."
Before Mr Trump's announcement, the Strategy and Policy Forum announced it was a joint decision to disband the council.
Businesses have been under pressure to distance themselves from Mr Trump over his handling of the clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Why did they leave?
On Monday, Mr Trump belatedly condemned the white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups that rallied in a small Virginia town on Sunday.
But in a rancorous news conference on Tuesday he backtracked and again blamed left-wing counter-protesters for the violence too.
JPMorgan chief executive Jamie Dimon, a member of the Strategy and Policy Forum, released a separate statement on Wednesday saying he strongly disagreed with Mr Trump's recent statements, adding that "fanning divisiveness is not the answer".
"Constructive economic and regulatory policies are not enough and will not matter if we do not address the divisions in our country. It is a leader's role, in business or government, to bring people together, not tear them apart," he said.
Denise Morrison of Campbell Soup said she could not continue to participate in the advisory panel after Mr Trump's comments. Activists had called on Campbell Soup, among other firms, to take action.
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Apple chief executive Tim Cook has become the latest boss to criticise President Donald Trump over his response to the white nationalist rallies in Virginia.
Mr Cook said he did not agree there was a "moral equivalence" between white supremacists and "those who oppose them".
Mr Trump has disbanded two business councils after top bosses resigned.
Mr Cook said Apple will also make donations to human rights charities.
In an email to staff obtained by BuzzFeed News Mr Cook said: "I disagree with the president and others who believe that there is a moral equivalence between white supremacists and Nazis, and those who oppose them by standing up for human rights.
"Equating the two runs counter to our ideals as Americans."
He added that "in the wake of the tragic and repulsive events in Charlottesville, we are stepping up to help organisations who work to rid our country of hate".
Apple will donate $1m to both the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League. It will also match two-for-one any staff donations to these and several other human rights groups until 30 September, Mr Cook said.
On Wednesday, Mr Trump said he was scrapping two business councils after more bosses quit over his handling of the violent clashes in Virginia.
Business leaders left the White House manufacturing council after the backlash against how he reacted to the far-right rally last weekend.
The clashes culminated in a woman's death and nearly 20 wounded when a car ploughed into a crowd of anti-fascist protesters.
Mr Trump's reaction has sparked outrage and generated global headlines.
His announcement on Twitter came as the heads of 3M, Campbell Soup, Johnson & Johnson and United Technologies announced their resignations on Wednesday.
Denise Morrison of Campbell Soup was the eighth CEO to resign from a White House business panel
Mr Trump said: "Rather than putting pressure on the businesspeople of the Manufacturing Council & Strategy & Policy Forum, I am ending both."
Before Mr Trump's announcement, the Strategy and Policy Forum announced it was a joint decision to disband the council.
Businesses have been under pressure to distance themselves from Mr Trump over his handling of the clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Why did they leave?
On Monday, Mr Trump belatedly condemned the white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups that rallied in a small Virginia town on Sunday.
But in a rancorous news conference on Tuesday he backtracked and again blamed left-wing counter-protesters for the violence too.
JPMorgan chief executive Jamie Dimon, a member of the Strategy and Policy Forum, released a separate statement on Wednesday saying he strongly disagreed with Mr Trump's recent statements, adding that "fanning divisiveness is not the answer".
"Constructive economic and regulatory policies are not enough and will not matter if we do not address the divisions in our country. It is a leader's role, in business or government, to bring people together, not tear them apart," he said.
Denise Morrison of Campbell Soup said she could not continue to participate in the advisory panel after Mr Trump's comments. Activists had called on Campbell Soup, among other firms, to take action.
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