memeorandum: Five more charities pull out of Mar-a-Lago events (mypalmbeachpost)

2:30 AM ET, August 19, 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 …

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 …

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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 …

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
With Steve Bannon Gone, Donald Trump Risks Becoming Arnold Schwarzenegger 2.0

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Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
Bannon Is ‘Going Nuclear’

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

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

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Washington Post:
Trump gets rid of Stephen Bannon, a top proponent of his nationalist agenda

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

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

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CNN:
Trump's chief strategist Steve Bannon fired

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

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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, NPR and Palm Beach Post

palmbeachdailynews:
Keeping track at home? Here's a list of who's leaving Mar-a-Lago

Discussion: Raw Story

Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Salvation Army, Red Cross, Susan G. Komen abandon Trump's Mar-a-Lago

Discussion: Common Dreams and The Guardian

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.

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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.

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

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.

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

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Fox News Insider:

Gingrich: Pres. Trump Is Much More Isolated Than He Realizes — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) had some words of caution for President Trump today, saying the president is “isolated.” — Gingrich said on “America's Newsroom” that Trump must take an in-depth look at his position …

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Robin Eberhardt / The Hill:
Gingrich: Trump presidency at risk without ‘serious changes’

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

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CNN:

Sebastian Gorka's PhD adviser: “I would not call him an expert in terrorism” — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)As a deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, Sebastian Gorka is often the public face of the administration when it comes to one of the most critical items on the President's agenda: Combating terrorism.

Tony Romm / Recode:

Tech has yet to totally bail on Trump — But the companies and execs aiding the American Technology Council are growing wary. — An effort by President Donald Trump to harness the likes of Apple, Amazon and Google toward modernizing the U.S. government will continue its work …

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Aram Roston / BuzzFeed:
Trump's Son In Crosshairs Of Special Counsel Mueller

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

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Tracy Jan / Washington Post:

Here is the official résumé of the person Trump put in charge of federal housing in New York — The person President Trump tapped this summer to oversee one of the largest regions under the Department of Housing & Urban Development is a longtime Trump family employee …

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.

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.