{"id":53915,"date":"2017-02-02T21:23:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T21:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=53915"},"modified":"2017-02-02T21:46:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T21:46:11","slug":"does-trump-trump-bannon-or-does-bannon-bannon-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=53915","title":{"rendered":"Does Trump trump Bannon, or does Bannon bannon Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; there&#8217;s so often an <em>eminence grise<\/em>, neh? ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>New York Times editorial board<\/strong> raises the question quite bluntly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Tablet-DQ-600-president-bannon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"870\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53948\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Tablet-DQ-600-president-bannon.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Tablet-DQ-600-president-bannon-207x300.png 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Mxx Boot<\/strong> answers it. Unless that title, too, was an editorial decision.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Digging in for a little more detail..<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SPEC-DQ-Bannon-Trump.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"644\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53946\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SPEC-DQ-Bannon-Trump.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SPEC-DQ-Bannon-Trump-280x300.png 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Oh, ah &#8212; but we have heard the like before:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/president-cheney.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53949\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/president-cheney.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/president-cheney-300x270.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<li><strong>New York Times<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/30\/opinion\/president-bannon.html\">President Bannon?<\/a>\n<li><strong>Foreign Policy<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2017\/01\/30\/president-stephen-bannons-amazing-first-week-in-office-trump-eo-nsc-immigration\/\">President Bannon\u2019s Hugely Destructive First Week in Office<\/a>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><strong>Guardian<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/jan\/30\/steve-bannon-nsc-politics-national-security\">Steve Bannon&#8217;s role in inner circle of Trump team raises fears of security crisis<\/a>\n<li><strong>Vanity Fair<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2016\/08\/breitbart-stephen-bannon-donald-trump-master-plan\">Steve Bannon, Trump&#8217;s New CEO, Hints at His Master Plan<\/a>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><strong>Guardian<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2007\/jul\/23\/usa.guantanamo\">Is this the real president of the United States?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>I strongly doubt that simple <strong>org charts<\/strong> can capture the niceties of influence in situations like these.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; there&#8217;s so often an eminence grise, neh? ] . The New York Times editorial board raises the question quite bluntly: Mxx Boot answers it. Unless that title, too, was an editorial decision. ** Digging in for a little more detail.. ** Oh, ah &#8212; but we have heard the like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1457,526,1314,627,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bannon","category-charles-cameron","category-donald-trump","category-doublequotes","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53915"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53961,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53915\/revisions\/53961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}