Does Trump trump Bannon, or does Bannon bannon Trump?

[ by Charles Cameron — there’s so often an eminence grise, neh? ]

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The New York Times editorial board raises the question quite bluntly:

Mxx Boot answers it. Unless that title, too, was an editorial decision.

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Digging in for a little more detail..

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Oh, ah — but we have heard the like before:

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Sources:

  • New York Times, President Bannon?
  • Foreign Policy, President Bannon’s Hugely Destructive First Week in Office
  • Guardian, Steve Bannon’s role in inner circle of Trump team raises fears of security crisis
  • Vanity Fair, Steve Bannon, Trump’s New CEO, Hints at His Master Plan
  • Guardian, Is this the real president of the United States?
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    I strongly doubt that simple org charts can capture the niceties of influence in situations like these.

    1. zen:

      There is nothing so precarious as being “the second man in the state”.