It’s still about following the money as Rebekah Mercer, the Lady MacBeth of our saga, seems to have prevailed upon Steve Bannon to keep plugging away (see the TV program Brockmire’s Lucy’d), even as the post-Flynn period begins on the NSC. The new McMaster staffing seems to have pushed the Flynn stalwarts out into a variety of consolation positions on the periphery.
The fractures in the contentious palace intrigues are becoming more prominent as Jared Kushner looms larger in the attempts to keep the wild Orange from veering into further conflicts.
Bannon’s crazed strategy of alienating major social groups as well as pandering to racist elements seems to have galvanized resistance to an anti-democratic agenda that remains profitable to national elites. Because isn’t that what a White House answers to, RWNJ donors.
Five people, including a senior administration official and several sources close to the president, tell POLITICO that Bannon, one of Trump’s closest advisers, has clashed with the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who’s taken on an increasingly prominent portfolio in the West Wing. Bannon has complained that Kushner and his allies are trying to undermine his populist approach, the sources said.
Republican mega-donor Rebekah Mercer, a longtime Bannon confidante who became a prominent Trump supporter during the campaign, urged Bannon not to resign. “Rebekah Mercer prevailed upon him to stay,” said one person familiar with the situation.
Another person familiar with the situation, a GOP operative who talks to Mercer, said: “Bekah tried to convince him that this is a long-term play.”
Bannon has worked closely with Mercer not only at the right-wing website Breitbart News, where her family is a major investor and where he served as executive chairman until joining the Trump campaign in August, but also at Cambridge Analytica, the data-analytics firm owned largely by the Mercers.
Bannon is a part owner of the firm, though he’s trying to sell his stake, and until recently he served as vice president of the company’s board.
And as if the corporately compromised WH wasn’t enough, in RW celebrity news we are reliving the strangeness of Que Sera, Sera and the relationship(sic) of Sly (of the Family Stone) and Doris Day…
Guessing there’s a PR thing for yet another Coulter book somewhere here but it sure does make some folks uncomfortable...
Even the Bannonists at Stormfront are incredulous:
She didn't date Jimmy tWalker! Gee whiz, people, get real, wow. You honestly believe that someone as Anglo and with it would date JIMMY freakin WALKER (of Good Times fame)?!?!?!?!? Wow.