Morning Jolt: The Sudden, Steep Fall of Steve Bannon

Making the click-through worthwhile today: What the fall of Steve Bannon says to current White House staff; finally, some good signs on North Korea; Missouri's Senate race gets even more complicated; and wondering what David Cameron really thought about Barack Obama.

Will White House Staffers Take Bannon's Defenestration as a Warning?

Steve Bannon's fall from the highest heights of politics is as steep and sudden as anyone can remember. As recently as April, he was sitting on the National Security Council and serving as President Trump's "chief strategist" at the White House. Now he's out of the White House, being denounced by the president as "Sloppy Steve," cut off from his financial patrons, forced to step down from Breitbart.com, and losing his SiriusXM radio show. He'll presumably have to move out of the "Breitbart Embassy" townhouse in Washington.

What's left? Michael Wolff has already effectively written Bannon's White House memoir.

Many White House watchers expected that big-name staffers who depart the Trump administration will write gossipy tell-alls offering an unflattering portrait of their former ...

January 10 2018

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The Sudden, Steep Fall of Steve Bannon Jim Geraghty Making the click-through worthwhile today: What the fall of Steve Bannon says to current White House staff; finally, some good signs on North Korea; Missouri's Senate race gets even more complicated; and wondering what David Cameron really thought about Barack Obama. Will White House Staffers Take Bannon's Defenestration as a Warning? Steve Bannon's fall from the highest heights of politics is as steep and sudden as anyone can remember. As recently as April, he was sitting on the National Security Council and serving as President Trump's "chief strategist" at the White House. Now he's out of the White House, being denounced by the president as "Sloppy Steve," cut off from his financial patrons, forced to step down from Breitbart.com, and losing his SiriusXM radio show. He'll presumably have to move out of the "Breitbart Embassy" townhouse in Washington. What's left? Michael Wolff has already effectively written Bannon's White House memoir. Many White House watchers expected that big-name staffers who depart the Trump administration will write gossipy tell-alls offering an unflattering portrait of their former ... READ MORE The Ideal Candidate and Her Toxic Platform Jonathan S. Tobin Oprah Winfrey may be the perfect Democratic presidential contender, but her Hollywood cheerleaders compromise her chances. Will Sunday evening's Golden Globes Awards show turn out to have... Cutting Off Pakistan Kevin D. Williamson Cutting Off Pakistan ADVERTISEMENT Why Is There So Much Government Hostility to Private Charity? Michael Tanner Last week brought some of the most brutally cold weather in years to the eastern U.S. In Elgin, Ill., Greg Schiller recognized the threat such cold posed to the area's many homeless people and... James Damore's Lawsuit Exposes Google's Culture of Ignorant Intolerance David French ... Politicizing Steele's Raw, Unverified 'Intelligence' Andrew C. McCarthy When you look at it hard, two conclusions are impossible to escape: First, at the height of the 2016 campaign, Obama intelligence officials anxiously adopted Christopher Steele's allegations of... Time's Up for 'Temporary' Alien Protection Michelle Malkin Se acabó el tiempo. Seventeen years after granting "temporary protected status" to nearly 200,000 Salvadoran citizens who had either fled earthquakes in 2001 or who were already here... ADVERTISEMENT I Am Pilgrim: A Thriller Terry Hayes "Hayes delivers muscular prose, sniper-round accurate dialogue and enough superb and original plotting to fill three volumes. He balances it all with the dexterity of the accomplished storyteller that he so obviously is. I Am Pilgrim is simply one of the best suspense novels I've read in a long time." - David Baldacci, bestselling author LEARN MORE Consumer Electronics Show Golden Globes Red Carpet ADVERTISEMENT Follow Us & Share 19 West 44th Street, Suite 1701, New York, NY, 10036, USA Your Preferences | Unsubscribe | Privacy View this e-mail in your browser.