After being fired from the post of chief strategist for Donald Trump’s government, Steve Bannon defiantly said that the Trump government that he campaigned for is over but he vowed to carry on the fight, The Telegraph reported. Within hours of being fired, he returned to Breitbart News.
A source close to Bannon told Reuters that he was not expected to resign on his own. “Bannon is going to make them fire him. He’s not going to officially resign. He’s still been doing the work. He’s been working on projects,” the source said.
The New York Times, however, cited a person close to Bannon as saying he had submitted his resignation on 7 August and that it was to be announced this week, but had been delayed by the fallout from a rally by white nationalists in Virginia over the weekend.
Bannon damaged his standing by giving an interview to the liberal American Prospect this week in which he was seen to be undercutting Trump's position on North Korea.
Bannon told associates he thought he was talking to an academic and thought he was off the record.
He has told friends he could go back to the right-wing Breitbart News outlet if he were to leave the White House.
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