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.
February 7th, 2017 at 3:28 am
There is nothing so precarious as being “the second man in the state”.