1/4/2018

STEVE BANNON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House continued Thursday [1-4-18] to downplay the role of former Trump campaign executive and White House chief strategist Steve Bannon following the publication of portions of a book quoting him saying unflattering things about President Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr.
White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley said that despite Bannon’s high-profile positions, the Breitbart chief was not able to accomplish anything in government…
Published adapted excerpts of the book by journalist Michael Wolff say Bannon called the 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Trump campaign officials and a Russian lawyer purportedly offering damaging information about Hillary Clinton ‘treasonous,’ among other statements the book attributes to him as denigrating the President and his eldest son.
CNN has not independently verified all the details in Wolff’s book.
Since the publication of excerpts, Trump’s team has disavowed Bannon and the book itself. The President said in a statement that Bannon had ‘lost his mind.’ “

-Eli Watkins, “White House spokesman: Bannon produced ‘zero’ results,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, Jan. 4, 2018 07:59pm