Steve Bannon, architect of Trump’s 2016 win, charged with defrauding border-wall donors
- 20-Aug-2020
Steve Bannon, an architect of President Donald Trump’s 2016 election victory, has been charged with defrauding Trump supporters in a campaign to help build his signature wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, prosecutors said on Thursday.
Steve Bannon weighs in on UK burqa debate, Boris Johnson
- 13-Aug-2018
Republican strategist Steve Bannon weighed into British politics on Sunday in a wide-ranging interview in which he defended UK’s former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson’s comments about Muslim face veils and praised the controversial British far-right leader. The former aide to President Donald Trump said Johnson had “nothing to apologise for” and should not “bow at […]
In Trump-Bannon feud, Republicans see silver lining
- 05-Jan-2018
WASHINGTON: In the white-hot battle for influence in US politics the Republican establishment has regained the upper hand, after Donald Trump unleashed a scalding repudiation of Steve Bannon, self-proclaimed champion of the anti-Washington populism that swept the president to power. Traditional conservatives and rabble-rousing populists have long competed for the ear of the president, who […]
Trump eats McDonald’s food to avoid being poisoned, new book claims
- 05-Jan-2018
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump lashed out at a bombshell-filled book that hits the shelves on Friday, dismissing it as “full of lies” after threats of legal action failed to block its release. Publishers responded to a cease-and-desist letter by moving forward by four days the release of “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White […]
Bannon insists he backs ‘great man’ Trump
- 04-Jan-2018
WASHINGTON: Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is heaping new praise on Donald Trump, after the president scathingly dismissed him as insane and irrelevant for disparaging his family in published remarks. “The president of the United States is a great man,” the executive chairman of right-wing news website Breitbart told SiriusXM late Wednesday. “You […]
After firing, Bannon returns to his ‘killing machine’
- 19-Aug-2017
WASHINGTON: With Stephen Bannon, the worry always was that he could be even more disruptive to President Donald Trump’s White House from outside than he was within. In the hours following his firing on Friday, those fears seemed warranted, as the conservative voices who viewed Bannon as one of their own howled in rage over […]
Trump fires far-right aide Steve Bannon
- 18-Aug-2017
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump fired chief strategist Steve Bannon on Friday, the White House announced, ending the turbulent tenure of a rabble-rousing conservative media entrepreneur and political activist who was a darling of Trump’s base. “White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Steve Bannon have mutually agreed today would be Steve’s last day,” […]
US in ‘economic war’ with China, says Trump strategist Bannon
- 17-Aug-2017
WASHINGTON: White House strategist Steve Bannon argued forcefully in an interview published Wednesday that the United States is in an “economic war” with China, and the confrontation with nuclear-armed North Korea is just “a sideshow.” “To me the economic war with China is everything. And we have to be maniacally focused on that,” he said […]
Trump strategist Bannon dropped from National Security Council: official
- 05-Apr-2017
WASHINGTON:Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump’s chief strategist, has lost his seat on the powerful National Security Council in a high-level shakeup, a US official confirmed on Wednesday. Trump’s elevation of Bannon to a permanent spot on the NSC had been widely criticized as injecting politics into White House deliberations on sensitive defense, foreign policy and […]
‘Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That’s power’ says Trump’s chief strategist
- 19-Nov-2016
WASHINGTON: “Darkness is good,” Steve Bannon, who was named Trump’s chief strategist for the incoming administration last Sunday after he turned the struggling candidate’s presidential campaign into ballot box gold, told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview. “Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That’s power.” The 62-year-old leader of the Breitbart News website, which has been […]