Conservative flame-thrower to get key White House position
Donald Trump has the right to appoint whoever he wants, Republicans in Washington are saying in response to the USA president-elect naming Steve Bannon as his top strategist, American news outlets reported on Monday.
He has reassured those close to him that he will maintain the direct line to Trump that he enjoyed during the campaign and that he will be on equal footing with Reince Priebus, who will have the more visible job of White House chief of staff and an appointee who comes directly out of the Republican Party establishment.
He said Bannon’s selection contradicts Trump’s message, made in his early morning victory speech November 9, in which the president-elect promised to be a leader who helped “bind the wounds of division” in America.
“I’ve known and worked with Steve Bannon, and he has traditional conservative non-racist, non-prejudiced views about the world”, said Joel Pollak, a senior editor at large at Breitbart, who called The Associated Press in response to a request for comment from Bannon on this story.
“Did he write it?”
“The Jewish community relies a lot on working with federal government to fund social services, protect Israel and to protect us from hate crimes”, Jacobs said.
“Birth control does not make women insane”, McCaskill wrote. Bannon will have the opportunity to shape domestic and foreign policy for a president who is taking office with few positions detailed.
“Just to be clear news media, the next president named a racist, anti-semite as the co-equal of the chief of staff”, John Weaver, an advisor to Ohio Gov. John Kasich, tweeted November 13. Breitbart didn’t rush to defend Ms. Fields in the wake of the incident, though video showed Mr. Lewandowski grabbing her as she was trying to ask Mr. Trump a question.
Echoing that sentiment was RNC Communications Director Sean Spicer who said Monday that Priebus will be in charge of the day to day machinations of running a White House while Bannon will be in charge of big picture vision and strategy – a role that appears will have a tremendous amount of say in a Trump administration. “Our team is very excited, and we can not wait to get to work”.
“After winning the presidency but losing the popular vote, President-elect Trump must try to bring Americans together – not continue to fan the flames of division and bigotry”, said House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi. “We have a responsibility to say it is not normal for the KKK, the Ku Klux Klan, to celebrate the election of a president they view as their champion with a victory parade”.
He said Democrats must broaden their focus beyond just swing states after an election that left the Senate and House in Republican hands, as well as most of the nation’s governor’s mansions. “He said that he doesn’t like Jews and that he doesn’t like the way they raise their kids to be “whiney brats” and that he didn’t want the girls going to school with Jews”. That move repeats the decision Trump made during his campaign, for which Bannon served as CEO, to embrace the support of white nationalists. He’s also fired a shot across the Washington establishment’s bow by tapping Breitbart News executive Stephen Bannon as chief strategist and senior counselor.
“Bannon has a clear tie to white nationalists”, he stated. House Republican Conference Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) handed out “Make America Great Again” hats at their morning conference meeting, and a number of members were spotted wearing them as they exited.
If I were Mr. Trump, I would surround myself with people that I trust and who have knowledge and information and wisdom that will help me do the best job that I can.
Baker, who had been Vice President George H.W. Bush’s campaign manager during the primaries, was also not a fan of Reaganism, especially the supply side economics and tax cuts that would power Reagan’s economic growth plan.