Bannon’s Path From Trusted Attack Dog to Toxic Liability
Trump just severed a vital link to his grass-roots conservative base.
Stephen K. Bannon, White House chief strategist in the Trump administration, at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., in February 2017.
Photographer: Mark Peterson/Redux
Steve Bannon’s departure as White House chief strategist abruptly severs Donald Trump’s most important political relationship — at a pivotal moment in his presidency.
Exactly a year and a day ago, on Aug. 17, Bannon, a fiery populist who ran the right-wing Breitbart News, took over Trump’s struggling presidential campaign. The two outsiders joined forces to pull off the most shocking upset in U.S. presidential history.