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Article snippet: Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon in a new statement praised said in a statement provided to Axios, referring to Trump Jr. Bannon added that his support for claimed Bannon called the 2016 meeting between Trump Jr. and a group of Russians "treasonous." "They’re going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV," Bannon is quoted as saying in the book, referring to the investigation into Russia's election interference. Trump tore into Bannon after excerpts of Michael Wolff's book, "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," were released. Trump accused Bannon of losing his mind. Bannon in the statement to Axios sought to further explain his comments. "My comments about the meeting with Russian nationals came from my life experiences as a Naval officer stationed aboard a destroyer whose main mission was to hunt Soviet submarines to my time at the Pentagon during the Reagan years when our focus was the defeat of 'the evil empire' and to making films about Reagan's war against the Soviets and Link to the full article to read more