Steve Bannon Gloats, Congress Worries After Gary Cohn's Surprise Departure

[DonViejo]

Gary Cohn’s exit from the White House prompted a belly laugh from Steve Bannon, but on the Hill Republicans are bracing for the worst.

LACHLAN MARKAY, ASAWIN SUEBSAENG, ANDREW DESIDERIO

03.08.18 5:14 AM ET

On Tuesday evening, Steve Bannon watched with glee as the White House confirmed that his former Trump administration adversary, Gary Cohn, was on his way out the door.

“Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy,” President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist and current Trump-world exile said in a phone conversation with a close associate who relayed details to The Daily Beast. Bannon, who three sources said was “thrilled” and “elated,” began calling and texting his stateside allies, as he monitored the news from Zurich, one of the stops on his Euro-trip to support hard-right nationalist groups and candidates.

“Bye, Gary,” he said to another friend before letting out a belly laugh. Bannon also made sure to happily message associates images of the globe emoji, a reference to the contemptuous nicknames Bannon allies use for “Globalist Gary.”

On Tuesday night, The New York Times first reported that Cohn, Trump’s top economic adviser, was soon leaving the administration, having found himself on the losing side of a rift over tariffs and trade wars. During his time in the West Wing, Bannon had bitterly feuded with other senior officials such as Cohn and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, whom he derided as “globalists” trying to thwart a populist-nationalist Trump agenda.

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[ProfessorGAC]

1. Major Media Still Cares What This Guy Thinks?

Why? We all know that Breitbart's click rate was grossly inflated by bots, so he was never as influential as everyone pretended. He got fired by his own crowd. (Resigned, my rear.) He's nothing.

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2. Look at the bylines

This is Bannon's buddies giving him high fives, not exactly major media figures. Any major media pixels or air time Bannon's gloating gets will be from gossip mongers. Bannon's one of those assholes who just wants to watch the world burn.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. Maybe In This Case, Grat

I still see way too much about what he says in news articles we all see right here at DU.

Nobody, (and i mean nobody) should care what this guy thinks or does.

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5. And I agree

It's an ongoing astonishment how conservatives can never seem to burn through their credibility with the media. Even Pat Buchanan and Henry Kissinger manage to slither onstage from time to time.

[ProfessorGAC]

6. You Just Made My Skin Crawl

Gingrich too. His own party rode him out of town on a rail, and now he's supposed to be some sage elder statesman. Grotesque.

[Orange Free State]

4. Bannon is so last year.

He reached the high point of his influence then and is a semi-forgotten man as the world has moved on. People like that are tragic figures, though I feel no sympathy for him.

Next story on Bannon may be his death from liver disease. Ever notice how much older some of these guys look than their actual age? Breitbart was the same way. I think all that hatred and internalized rage does it.

[ProfessorGAC]

7. Thruthfully, OFS. . .

. . .Bannon is so "never was". It's a fact that a huge percentage of Breitbart clicks were bots so he was never as influential as advertised and he really had only a little to do with why the idiot got elected. When he took credit, even that crowd knew he was grabbing more than was his. That's why they launched him