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Way Out"
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/steve-bannon-livid-with-breitbart-for-reince-priebus-report
By ESME CRIBB Published FEBRUARY 15, 2017, 6:28 PM EDT
White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said Wednesday that he was "livid" with Breitbart News for publishing a report suggesting that President Donald Trump's chief of staff Reince Priebus could lose his job.
Bannon, who took a leave of absence from his role as Breitbart News chairman to serve as Trump's campaign CEO, told CNN that he was "not upset livid."
Breitbart News published the report by Matthew Boyle, titled "As Flynn Resigns, Priebus Future In Doubt As Trump Allies Circulate List of Alternate Chief of Staff Candidates," on Tuesday after White House national security adviser Michael Flynn stepped down.
Bannon called the report "totally untrue."
"Reince is doing a great job. I couldn't ask any more from a partner," he said as quoted by CNN.
He told The Atlantic in an email on Tuesday that the story was "absurd."
Bannon called Boyle after the report was published and gave him "both barrels," according to an Axios report published Wednesday citing an unnamed source familiar with the conversation.
In 2015, however, Bannon praised Boyle as "one of the few reporters in Washington who isnt afraid to ruffle the feathers of the establishment and relentlessly tell the stories grassroots conservatives care about," as quoted by Adweek.
Neither Boyle nor the White House immediately responded to TPM's requests for comment.
We need to head to Costco to get boatloads of popcorn - going through it so fast!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Additionally, why is the chief strategist commenting on whether the chief of staff's job is safe? Isn't Priebus above Bannon on the org chart?
malaise
(268,720 posts)Butter please
mercuryblues
(14,525 posts)labeling his own media outlet as fake news.
Phoenix61
(16,994 posts)Phoenix61
(16,994 posts)Talk about ironic. Bannon calling Breitbart news fake.
Doodley
(9,048 posts)the boss of Donald Trump.
JHB
(37,157 posts)BANNON: "No, you $%&thead, not yet! It's still too soon after that SNL skit with the Grim Reaper and the kiddie desk! It looks like I'm trying to shove everyone else aside!'
LACKEY: "But you are."
BANNON: "HE'S NOT SUPPOSED TO FIND OUT TIL AFTER IT'S DONE YOU STUPID @&(&)%&!!!!"
MiniMe
(21,709 posts)tanyev
(42,522 posts)Squinch
(50,919 posts)Priebus's embarrassment is once again in everyone's face.
He's got it out for Priebus and is trying to consolidate his power.