memeorandum: Bannon: ‘The Trump Presidency That We Fought For, and Won, Is Over.’ (Peter J. Boyer/Weekly Standard)

11:55 PM ET, August 18, 2017

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Peter J. Boyer / Weekly Standard:

Bannon: ‘The Trump Presidency That We Fought For, and Won, Is Over.’ — Departed White House strategist speaks to THE WEEKLY STANDARD. — With the departure from the White House of strategist Stephen K. Bannon, who helped shape the so-called nationalist-populist program embraced by Donald Trump …

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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:

Trump Tells Aides He Has Decided to Remove Stephen Bannon — President Trump has told senior aides that he has decided to remove Stephen K. Bannon, the embattled White House chief strategist who helped Mr. Trump win the 2016 election, according to two administration officials briefed on the discussion.

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Breitbart:

Former White House Chief Strategist Stephen K. Bannon returned as Executive Chairman of Breitbart News Friday afternoon and chaired the company's evening editorial meeting. — Ranked the #63 website in America by Amazon-owned Alexa.com, and with the #13 Facebook page in the world …

Discussion: Washington Post, The Gateway Pundit, Politico, CNBC, New York Times, TheBlaze, Washington Free Beacon, Axios and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »

Bloomberg:

Bannon Says He's ‘Going to War for Trump’ After White House Exit — Aide left amid furor over Trump remarks on Virginia violence — Bannon was architect of Trump's 2016 election victory — Stephen Bannon said in his first public remarks since his ouster from White House role …

Discussion: The Guardian and The Gateway Pundit, more at Mediagazer »

Jonathan Swan / Axios:

Bannon, backed by billionaire, prepares to go to war — Steve Bannon's next moves will be all about the billionaire Mercer family. I'm told Bannon, who visited New York this week, met with Bob Mercer and together they will be a well-funded force on the outside.

Discussion: Hot Air, Washington Post, CNBC, Raw Story, The National Interest, East Bay Times, IJR, The Other McCain, AOL, Business Insider, Washington Monthly, Washington Journal, ABC News, The Gateway Pundit, New York Magazine, The Week and Mediaite

Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:

Seb Gorka's Fate ‘Extremely Uncertain’ as His Boss Bannon Is Ousted … The fate of Donald Trump's pugnacious, controversial aide Sebastian Gorka is up in the air again after his top ally inside the White House, Steven Bannon, was shown the door, multiple White House officials tell The Daily Beast.

Discussion: Raw Story

Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:

BANNON OUT: PREPARE FOR WAR — On Friday, Drudge Report scooped The New York Times and reported that White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, who also served as Trump's chief campaign strategist in the latter months of the campaign, is out at the White House.

Discussion: Shareblue, Mediaite, The Gateway Pundit and alicublog

Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:

Bannon Is ‘Going Nuclear’ — In firing Steve Bannon, President Trump has lost his chief ideologue, the man who channeled his base and advocated for the populist-nationalist policies that helped propel Trump to victory. — But he has gained an unpredictable and potentially troublesome outside ally …

Discussion: NPR, Washington Post, Politico, Business Insider, TheBlaze, CNBC, Hullabaloo, Salon and Fox News Insider

Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:

With Steve Bannon Gone, Donald Trump Risks Becoming Arnold Schwarzenegger 2.0 — President Donald Trump's decision to part ways with Steve Bannon can be understood as an effort to save his presidency after Charlottesville. It may turn out to be the beginning of the end for the Trump administration …

Discussion: Washington Times, Hit & Run, Shareblue, Politicus USA, Talking Points Memo and twitchy.com

Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Conservatives react with fury to Bannon's departure

Discussion: Politico and RedState

New York Times:
Steve Bannon, Back on the Outside, Prepares His Enemies List

Discussion: Daily Wire, Mashable, Talking Points Memo, The Week, Weekly Standard, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Raw Story, Balloon Juice, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit, CNBC and Mediaite

CNN:
Trump's chief strategist Steve Bannon fired

Discussion: Mediaite, Media Matters for America, Washington Journal, Refinery29, Politicus USA, The Nation and The Daily Caller

Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Get ready for ‘Bannon da barbarian’

Discussion: Axios and Politicus USA, more at Mediagazer »

Andrew Prokop / Vox: The chaos of the Trump administration, in one picture

Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
‘#WAR’: Breitbart set to take on Trump White House after Bannon ouster

Discussion: CNN, New York Post, CNBC, Joe.My.God., Mediaite, The Week, The Atlantic and Business Insider

Washington Post:
Trump gets rid of White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon

Discussion: New York Magazine, Los Angeles Blade, Mediaite, Business Insider, Axios, Raw Story, The Gateway Pundit, IJR, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Washington Monthly

Jonathan Swan / Axios:
White House review nears end: Officials expect Bannon firing

Discussion: Politico, ABC News, Washington Post, New York Times, CNBC, The Mahablog, New York Magazine, Mediaite, FiveThirtyEight, Washington Journal, The Week, Washington Free Beacon, The Guardian, Business Insider, RedState, National Review and Politicus USA

Adrian Carrasquillo / BuzzFeed:
Bannon's Next Move: A Return To Breitbart And Possible War With Drudge

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and RedState

Alex Pfeiffer / The Daily Caller:
Coulter: Bannon Firing ‘Not Good News’ — 'Trump Should've Hired Ten More Like Him'

Discussion: TheBlaze

Tony Romm / Recode:
Tech has yet to totally bail on Trump

Discussion: VICE News

Carl C. Icahn / Carl Icahn:

Carl Icahn Issues Statement — 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. — Washington, DC 20500 — Dear Mr. President: — This will confirm our conversation today in which we agreed that I would cease to act as special advisor to the President on issues relating to regulatory reform.

Discussion: ABC News, Forbes, Politico, Raw Story and Axios

Patrick Radden Keefe / New Yorker:

Carl Icahn's Failed Raid on Washington — Was President Trump's richest adviser focussed on helping the country—or his own bottom line? — One day in August, 2016, the financier Carl Icahn made an urgent phone call to the Environmental Protection Agency.

Discussion: Reuters and New York Magazine

Jackie Wattles / CNNMoney: Billionaire Carl Icahn steps down as adviser to President Trump

mypalmbeachpost:

Five more charities pull out of Mar-a-Lago events … Five more philanthropic organizations said Friday they have pulled their fundraising events from President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club following an intense social media push calling on people to boycott charities that use the venue.

Discussion: Politico, Political Wire, Palm Beach Post and NPR

Drew Harwell / Washington Post:

Salvation Army, Red Cross, Susan G. Komen abandon Trump's Mar-a-Lago — A worker walks along a road at the Mar-a-Lago club in West Balm, Fla. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) — The Salvation Army, the American Red Cross and Susan G. Komen on Friday joined a growing exodus …

Discussion: Common Dreams and The Guardian

Max Greenwood / The Hill:

Member of Trump's Evangelical Advisory Board resigns over ‘conflict in values’ — The pastor of a New York megachurch said Friday that he has resigned from President Trump's Evangelical Advisory Board, citing “a deepening conflict in values” with the administration.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, RedState and Washington Journal

Tom Gjelten / NPR: Trump's Evangelical Advisers Stand By Their Man

Mitt Romney:

I will dispense for now from discussion of the moral character of the president's Charlottesville statements. Whether he intended to or not, what he communicated caused racists to rejoice, minorities to weep, and the vast heart of America to mourn. His apologists strain to explain that he didn't mean what we heard.

NBC News:

Barcelona Attack: Jared Tucker, California Man, Among Those Killed, Family Says — The California man who was separated from his wife in the chaotic moments of Thursday's terrorist attack in Barcelona, Spain, was among the 13 killed at the scene, his family said Friday.

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CNN:
Key developments — Four people have been arrested …

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Morgan Winsor / ABC News:
At least 1 American killed in Barcelona vehicle attack, US officials say

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Frank Bruni / New York Times:

The Week When President Trump Resigned — As the worst week in a cursed presidency wound down, I spotted more and more forecasts that Donald Trump would resign, including from Tony Schwartz, who wrote “The Art of the Deal” for Trump and presumably understands his tortured psyche.

Discussion: TalkLeft and The Atlantic

Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
Art of the Deal Writer Says Trump Will Resign Before Year's End: Reminds Me of ‘Last Days of Nixon’

Discussion: Mashable, YouTube and Fox News Insider

Aram Roston / BuzzFeed:

Trump's Son In Crosshairs Of Special Counsel Mueller — Prosecutors investigating possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign are bearing down on the president's son, attempting to figure out his intent when he attended a meeting in which he was promised dirt on Hillary Clinton …

Discussion: Daily Kos

Karen Freifeld / Reuters:
White House lawyer Cobb predicts quick end to Mueller probe

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit

David Ferguson / Raw Story:

‘My life is over’: 21-year-old Charlottesville marcher whines over ‘outing’ by anti-fascist group — A 21-year-old Honeoye Falls, NY man was outed as a white supremacist after photos of him marching in Charlottesville, VA circulated online. — According to the Livingston County News …

David Weigel / Washington Post:

Political opponent wants FBI to investigate Rohrabacher in wake of Assange meeting — Harley Rouda, a Democrat running against Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) in 2018, has asked the FBI to probe the Republican congressman's “political and financial ties to Russia” after Rohrabacher met with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.