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NRaleighLiberal

(60,008 posts)
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 08:14 PM Feb 2017

Bannon needs attention! TPM - "Bannon 'Livid' With Breitbart For Report Suggesting Priebus Is On His

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 isn’t 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!

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Bannon needs attention! TPM - "Bannon 'Livid' With Breitbart For Report Suggesting Priebus Is On His (Original Post) NRaleighLiberal Feb 2017 OP
"Reince is doing a great job": Kiss of death gratuitous Feb 2017 #1
This sure is feeding frenzy of another sort malaise Feb 2017 #2
Bannon mercuryblues Feb 2017 #3
Precious, isn't it? Phoenix61 Feb 2017 #4
Let the feeding frenzy begin! Phoenix61 Feb 2017 #5
Bannon has a conflict of interest. He has to decide if he is still the boss of Breitbart News or Doodley Feb 2017 #6
Sounds like someone at (notso)Breitbard blabbed too soon... JHB Feb 2017 #7
"Heck of a job Brownie" MiniMe Feb 2017 #8
Uh, oh. Trump better add Britefart to his "Fake News" list. tanyev Feb 2017 #9
He's so angry that he publicly expresses his anger, thereby ensuring that the story of Squinch Feb 2017 #10

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
1. "Reince is doing a great job": Kiss of death
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 08:17 PM
Feb 2017

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?

Doodley

(9,048 posts)
6. Bannon has a conflict of interest. He has to decide if he is still the boss of Breitbart News or
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 08:25 PM
Feb 2017

the boss of Donald Trump.

JHB

(37,157 posts)
7. Sounds like someone at (notso)Breitbard blabbed too soon...
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 08:26 PM
Feb 2017

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 @&(&)%&!!!!"

Squinch

(50,919 posts)
10. He's so angry that he publicly expresses his anger, thereby ensuring that the story of
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 09:12 PM
Feb 2017

Priebus's embarrassment is once again in everyone's face.

He's got it out for Priebus and is trying to consolidate his power.

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