In CBS Interview, Bannon Talks ‘Biggest Mistake in Modern Political History’

Charlie Rose: Someone told me that you described James Comey – you’re a student of history – as the biggest mistake in political history.

In an interview with the CBS programme “60 Minutes”, Mr Bannon predicted Republicans could lose control in the House in the 2018 congressional elections because of a looming battle over what to do about 800,000 immigrants known as “Dreamers”.

Former White House strategist Stephen K Bannon believes the firing of Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey by President Donald Trump was the biggest mistake “maybe in modern political history”.

Still, Bannon said he does not believe Mueller should be fired and that there have been no discussions in the White House about firing him.

“I don’t need the affirmation of the mainstream media”, Bannon told Rose. “I can not take the fight to who we have to take the fight to when I’m an advisor to the president as a federal government employee”, he said.

“Billy Bush Saturday showed me who really had Donald Trump’s back to play to his better angels”, Bannon said. Reports emerged in May that Comey had refused Trump’s request to end an investigation into alleged ties between Michael Flynn, his former national security adviser, with a Russian diplomat. “If you’re on the plane, you’re on the team, ‘” Bannon recalls.

Bannon’s allegiance to Trump was glaring as he proceeded to criticize those members of the administration that made the “wrong move.”He wasn’t in support of their act of leaking their displeasure with the way the American President had gone about handling white-supremacist-fueled violence in Charlottesville”.

Of course, the Clinton bashing is nothing new. “And that is the question that will be answered in 2020”.

Beijing, he declared in his first TV interview since leaving the White House, was already at “economic war” with the U.S. and it was time for the United States to respond in kind.

After Comey was sacked, Trump told NBC News anchor Lester Holt that he fired the FBI director because of his handling of the Russian Federation investigation.

The issue of immigration has deeply divided Republicans for more than a decade, pitting the nativist, anti-immigration wing that Bannon represents against the pro-business wing that believes immigrants are good for the US. But with his refusal to say anything about Kushner’s involvement it definitely feels like there’s something up his sleeve.

Since taking office, Trump has become more conventional in his willingness to use military force, striking Syria in response to a chemical weapons attack on civilians and committing additional troops to the war in Afghanistan. Making a rather dramatic statement, Bannon claimed that the Republicans are trying to get the 2016 election nullified.

US President Donald Trump, with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. “They do not want Donald Trump’s populist, economic nationalist agenda to be implemented. It’s very obvious. It’s very obvious what they are trying to do”. There are certain things you can’t do. “I can not take the fight to who we have to take the fight to when I’m an advisor to the president as a federal government employee”.