Report: Bannon Warned Trump ‘You Can’t Fire The FBI’ Amid Comey Chaos

From left, White House Senior Counselor for Economic Initiatives Dina Powell, President Donald Trump's White House Senior Adviser Steve Bannon and National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster attend a news conference with President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in the East Room at the White House, Wednesday, April 12, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
From left, White House Senior Counselor for Economic Initiatives Dina Powell, President Donald Trump's White House Senior Adviser Steve Bannon and National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster attend a news conference with... From left, White House Senior Counselor for Economic Initiatives Dina Powell, President Donald Trump's White House Senior Adviser Steve Bannon and National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster attend a news conference with President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in the East Room at the White House, Wednesday, April 12, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) MORE LESS
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Chief White House strategist Steve Bannon warned President Donald Trump that backlash would ensue if he fired James Comey as head of the FBI, according to a book excerpt published by New York Magazine.

“You can’t fire the FBI,” Bannon told Trump, according to an unnamed White House official cited in the report (adapted from an upcoming book by journalist Joshua Green).

According to Green, senior White House adviser and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner disagreed with Bannon and pushed for Comey’s termination.

Trump’s abrupt firing of Comey in May led to former FBI director Robert Mueller’s appointment as special counsel to investigate Russian election meddling.

Bannon was prominent in the White House’s efforts to build a “war room” to keep up with and respond to the investigation.

According to Green, Bannon was responsible for skewing hiring toward lawyers rather than Trump’s favored publicists, and set the team up outside the White House so it would be free to “throw some fucking haymakers.”

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  1. Avatar for dv01 dv01 says:

    Let this sink in… Steve Bannon is the voice of reason within the WH.

    Mild frost down in Hades right now…

  2. “You’d like to have a nose like that full of nickels, wouldn’t you?”

  3. The face of “white superiority”
    ~snicker~

  4. Avatar for dnl dnl says:

    Bannon has lost control of the Monster he created?

  5. This reverses the accepted version that had President Bannon urging Comey’s firing while First Cuckold Jared said not to do it.

    We need statements under oath from multiple people before we can know the real truth.

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