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Steve Bannon returns to Breitbart after leaving White House post - The Boston Globe

posted onAugust 19, 2017
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Article snippet: Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories Ousted White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon returned to the conservative Breitbart News website Friday and said he’ll be “going to war” for President Trump, vowing to intensify from the outside the fight he has waged against opponents of his brand of populist conservatism. “If there’s any confusion out there, let me clear it up: I’m leaving the White House and going to war for Trump against his opponents — on Capitol Hill, in the media, and in corporate America,” Bannon said Friday in an interview with Bloomberg News hours after his departure was announced. Bannon led the evening editorial meeting at Breitbart, where he resumed his role as executive chairman, the website said in a statement. President Trump decided to dismiss his embattled chief strategist, an architect of his 2016 general election victory, in a major White House shake-up that follows a week of racial unrest. Trump had been under mounting pressure to dispatch with Bannon, who many officials view as a political Svengali but who has drawn scorn as a leading internal force encouraging and amplifying the president’s most controversial nationalist impulses. Fourteen. Catorce. Quatorze. Quattordici. Say it however you want — that’s the number of high-profile political appointees who have come and gone since January. In a statement, press secretary Sarah Sanders said, “... Link to the full article to read more

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