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NEWS: Steve Bannon will be leaving the White House today 

President Donald Trump told senior aides on Friday that Bannon would no longer serve his administration, according to the New York Times and several other news outlets.

The details of exactly when and how this decision will be rolled out were not immediately clear.

In a statement, the White House said “White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Steve Bannon have mutually agreed today would be Steve’s last day. We are grateful for his service and wish him the best.”

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I just…. color me skeptical.

Miller and Gorka are still in the White House – so it’s not because of Bannon’s racist views.  

Steve Bannon (Steven BANNON?!?) failed to say this is “off the record” so soon after Scaramucci’s meltdown and its fallout?

Steve Bannon called an MSM, but much less LIBERAL(?!?) magazine’s reporter to drop his nonsense out there into the world?  That seems to give him a lot of room to deny or minimize the insults he directed to the alt-right.  

All together it just seems like Bannon fell on a foam sword for Trump.  With Kelly in the White House, I’m sure he’s feeling like he could do a lot more outside the administration.

Trump Removes Stephen Bannon From National Security Council Post

4/5/17

WASHINGTON — President Trump reshuffled his national security organization on Wednesday, removing his chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, from a top policy-making committee and restoring senior military and intelligence officials who had been downgraded when he first came into office.

The shift was orchestrated by Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, who was tapped as Mr. Trump’s national security adviser after the resignation of Michael T. Flynn …

A new order issued by Mr. Trump, dated Tuesday and made public on Wednesday, removes Mr. Bannon from the principals committee, restores the chairman of the Joint Chiefs and intelligence director and also adds the energy secretary, C.I.A. director and United Nations ambassador.

A senior White House official presented the move as a logical evolution, not a setback for Mr. Bannon. He had originally been put on the principals committee to keep an eye on Mr. Flynn and to “de-operationalize” the National Security Council after the Obama administration, this official said on condition of anonymity to discuss internal dynamics. This official said that process had been completed.

Another official close to Mr. Bannon insisted the move was not in any way a sign that the president had lost confidence in him or wanted to reduce his portfolio. And as evidence he will still play a role in national security decisions, the aide said that Mr. Bannon still maintains the highest level of security clearance in the West Wing.

But the reorganization seemed a clear victory for General McMaster as he struggles to assert control over national security. In addition to the changing membership of the principals committee, the new order also puts the Homeland Security Council under General McMaster rather than making it a separate entity, as Mr. Trump’s original order had done.

Trump Removes Stephen Bannon From National Security Council Post