Former Trump strategist Steve Bannon said during a recent interview that Trump is facing a coup. He was reacting to the anonymous anti-Trump column published by the New York Times last week.
PJ Media reports:
Bannon: Trump Facing a ‘Coup’
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon told Reuters that the recent New York Times op-ed describing an unstable president was a “coup” and a “direct attack” on America’s institutions.
“What you saw the other day was as serious as it can get. This is a direct attack on the institutions,” Bannon said during a flying visit to Italy. “This is a coup, okay”.
The column was published on Wednesday and was written by an unnamed senior administration official, the New York Times said.
The writer slammed Trump’s “amorality” and said: “Many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.”
Bannon said the last time a U.S. president had been challenged in such a fashion was during the American Civil War when General George B. McClellan clashed with the then president, Abraham Lincoln.
“This is a crisis. The country has only ever had such a crisis in the summer of 1862 when General McClellan and the senior generals, all Democrats in the Union Army, deemed that Abraham Lincoln was not fit and not competent to be commander in chief,” Bannon said.
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Bannon makes an excellent point here. The good news is that the White House is actively working to out the writer of the column.
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