Despite getting a cease-and-desist order from the commander-in-chief’s legal team, Trump’s former strategist is still on his team.
Steve Bannon still thinks President Trump is a “great man,” despite getting a cease-and-desist order from the commander-in-chief’s legal team.
“The president is a great man,” Bannon said on Sirius XM radio’s “Breitbart News Tonight” late Wednesday. “You know I support him day in and day out.”
Bannons infallible support of Trump came after a caller asked about the President’s statement earlier in the day that his ex-pal had “lost his mind.”
There is “nothing will ever come between us and President Trump and his agenda” and “we’re tight on this agenda as we’ve ever been.”
The remarks capped off a heated day in which Trump seemed to sever all ties with a man who was his closest wires.
The rift began after excerpts from “Fire and Fury: Inside the White House” detailed Bannon lambasting Donald Trump Jr. for his controversial June 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer.
Bannon thought the Trump Tower meeting, also attended by Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner and then-campaign chair Paul Manafort, was “treasonous” and “unpatriotic,” he told author Michael Wolff.
The 64-year-old former Goldman Sachs banker was nudged out of his role as White House chief strategist in August, returning to his top perch at Breitbart News.
Trump issued a full-throated statement denouncing Bannon, who led the ex-businessman’s campaign during its final months.
“Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my presidency,” Trump said. “When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind.”
After the less than flattering portrayal of life in the White House came out, a Trump attorney hit Bannon with a cease-and-desist letter.
The lawyer told the unkempt right-wing strategist that he broke the conditions of a nondisparagement accord with the Trump Organization.
Trump Jr. also took another swipe at Bannon’s tenure in the administration.
“Steve had the honor of working in the White House & serving the country. Unfortunately, he squandered that privilege & turned that opportunity into a nightmare of backstabbing, harassing, leaking, lying & undermining the President. Steve is not a strategist, he is an opportunist,” he tweeted.
Bannon, during his radio address Wednesday night, didn’t address the cease-and-desist letter.
Nor did he deny any of the comments in the book.
