{"id":23912,"date":"2017-08-16T01:31:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T01:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23912"},"modified":"2017-08-16T01:31:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T01:31:07","slug":"a-glimmer-of-good-news-from-trump-tirade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23912","title":{"rendered":"A glimmer of good news from Trump tirade?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>If there was the slightest glimmer of good news from Donald J. Trump&#8217;s astonishing rant this afternoon, it involves the possible fate of the president&#8217;s senior political strategist.<\/p>\n<p>The president fielded a question at Trump Tower about Stephen K. Bannon and whether he was going to be pushed out of his job. Trump responded that Bannon is a good guy, a &#8220;friend of mine.&#8221; He said Bannon &#8220;is not a racist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then the president said he was uncertain about whether Bannon would stay on.\u00a0 &#8220;We&#8217;ll see what happens,&#8221; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>Wait a second! He&#8217;s the president of the United States. <em>Of course<\/em> he knows whether he&#8217;s going to keep Bannon. Should he retain this guy? <em>Hell &#8230; no!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bannon is the former Breitbart News honcho who ran an organization with deep sympathies to the &#8220;alt-right&#8221; movement often associated with white supremacists and assorted other haters.<\/p>\n<p>He now has a seat at the White House policy-setting table. He also is reportedly feuding with chief of staff John Kelly and national security adviser H.R. McMaster.<\/p>\n<p>I want Bannon out of there. Maybe the president will do the right thing &#8212; at least on that score. Then again, we still will have Donald Trump as president of the United States.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there was the slightest glimmer of good news from Donald J. Trump&#8217;s astonishing rant this afternoon, it involves the possible fate of the president&#8217;s senior political strategist. The president fielded a question at Trump Tower about Stephen K. Bannon and whether he was going to be pushed out of his job. Trump responded that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23912\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A glimmer of good news from Trump tirade?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,7097,5246],"class_list":["post-23912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-stephen-bannon","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23913,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23912\/revisions\/23913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}