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

12:20 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 …

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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, Washington Free Beacon, New York Times, TheBlaze, 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 »

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

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.

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, Business Insider, Weekly Standard, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Balloon Juice, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit and Mediaite

Frank Bruni / New York Times:
The Week When President Trump Resigned

Discussion: TalkLeft and The Atlantic

CNN:
Trump's chief strategist Steve Bannon fired

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

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

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

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

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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 and The Atlantic

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

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and RedState

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

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

Discussion: TheBlaze

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

Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Inside the rise and fall of Steve Bannon

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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, 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

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

Discussion: Raw Story

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

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

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

Discussion: Mediaite

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.

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

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

Discussion: VICE News

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 …

CNN:

Key developments — Four people have been arrested: one of them in Alcanar and three in Ripoll. Three were Moroccan citizens and another was Spanish; they ranged in age from 21 to 34. None was on the radar for terrorism. — People from at least 34 countries are among the injured in the attacks, Catalan authorities said.