by Tony Lee
14 Aug 2017
But, as Trump himself has admitted numerous times, his movement is bigger than Trump. And getting rid of Bannon would be the strongest signal to his voters that Trump has sold them out, proving that Rubio was right when he mocked Trump as a con man during the 2016 campaign.
Fox News and Wall Street Journal boss Rupert Murdoch has reportedly “repeatedly urged” President Donald Trump to kick White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon to the curb.
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman reported on Monday that Murdoch’s latest demand to get rid of Bannon
came at a recent dinner with White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner before Trump headed off to Bedminster, New Jersey.
Kushner, who has tried multiple times to shiv Bannon and remove him from the White House,
“has been in open warfare” with Bannon since the spring, according to Haberman, and
has clearly sided with his fellow Democrats and globalists in the West Wing and outside the White House.
As the Times noted,
Bannon “embodies the defiant populism at the core of” Trump’s agenda, and Trump forged a “foxhole friendship” with Bannon during the 2016 campaign when Bannon stood by Trump when nearly everyone else ran as far away from Trump as possible, especially after the release of the Access Hollywood tapes.
Murdoch has always been at odds with Bannon
on key issues like illegal immigration and increases in foreign guest-worker visas.
Murdoch, though, as Joshua Green noted in his book Devil’s Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump and the Storming of the Presidency,
initially mocked Trump and his movement. He thought the idea of Trump presidency was so absurd that he dissed Trump and his daughter Ivanka right to their faces at a lunch
Murdoch now apparently sees an opportunity to align with Democrat Kushner and the White House’s Democrats and globalists and
take over the White House in a way he could not do with Bush or Rubio.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/08/14/murdoch-wh-dems-urging-potus-to-dump-bannon-give-middle-finger-to-trump-voters/
