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| Steve Bannon to leave role at Breitbart News following 'Fire and Fury' furore | Steve Bannon to leave role at Breitbart News following 'Fire and Fury' furore |
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| Steve Bannon is stepping down from his role as executive chairman at Breitbart News, the website has confirmed. | Steve Bannon is stepping down from his role as executive chairman at Breitbart News, the website has confirmed. |
| The website said in an announcement featured on its front page that Mr Bannon and the news website will work together "on a smooth and orderly transition". Mr Bannon was serving as executive chairman, a post he first took up in 2012. | The website said in an announcement featured on its front page that Mr Bannon and the news website will work together "on a smooth and orderly transition". Mr Bannon was serving as executive chairman, a post he first took up in 2012. |
| "I'm proud of what the Breitbart team has accomplished in so short a period of time in building out a world-class platform," Mr Bannon was quoted as saying in the announcement. | "I'm proud of what the Breitbart team has accomplished in so short a period of time in building out a world-class platform," Mr Bannon was quoted as saying in the announcement. |
| The departure marks an incredible fall from grace for Mr Bannon, who resigned from his post as chief White House strategist just months ago after rumours of in-fighting within the West Wing. Mr Bannon said then that his leaving was pre-planned, and that he could better support President Donald Trump at the helm of Breitbart. The news of his stepping down signifies the end of his latest tenure in control of the platform. | |
| Mr Bannon appeared to enjoy the support of Mr Trump up until last week, when excerpts from a new book detailing the inner workings of the first year of the Trump White House began to be reported. After those reports began to surface, Mr Bannon quickly lost his support from the President, and -- perhaps even more damaging -- from the billionaire Mercer family, which had bankrolled Mr Bannon's efforts at Breitbart. | |
| The book claimed that Mr Bannon had frequently disparaged Mr Trump's adult children, saying that a meeting Donald Trump Jr accepted with a Russian source in Trump Tower was "treasonous", and that Ivanka Trump was "dumb as a brick. In response, Mr Trump shot back in an attempt to discredit Mr Bannon, and anything he may have said to the author of the book. | |
| "Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind," Mr Trump said in a statement delivered to reporters last week. "Steve was a staffer who worked for me after I had already won the nomination by defeating seventeen candidates, often described as the most talented field ever assembled in the Republican party." | |
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