President Trump takes aim at his former adviser, Steve Bannon. In a long statement yesterday, Trump said in part that Bannon has nothing to do with him or his presidency, but that he had “everything to do with the loss of a Senate seat in Alabama held for more than thirty years by Republicans.” The president was reacting to excerpts from a new book in which Bannon is quoted as saying a meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian attorney was “treasonous.” Read the full statement from the president:
President Donald Trump torched former chief White House strategist Steve Bannon in a Wednesday statement in response to the incendiary quotes the Breitbart chief made in a new book on the Trump administration by Michael Wolff.