NEW YORK: Chief strategist of the Donald Trump 2016 campaign Steve Bannon has stormed back into his old role of communications war room chief to aggressively defend the US President with a bare-knuckle podcast run from his basement digs as impeachment peril swallows the White House. Barely 12 months remain before the 2020 elections.
Bannon’s comeback is happening on the same day Trump lashed out at his own party, tweeting: “Never Trumper Republicans” are “in certain ways worse and more dangerous for our Country than the Do-Nothing Democrats. They are human scum!” Democrats have launched a swiftly moving impeachment inquiry last month in response to a whistleblower revelation that Trump allegedly pressurized Ukraine for dirt on a political opponent and withheld military aid. The Trump guardrails are straining under the pressure of a steady stream of closed-door testimonies by highly ranked government functionaries that are ripping up the White House storyline. Republicans are worried about the lack of White House coordination and saturation messaging. Bannon’s hourlong show, starting Wednesday, is called ‘War Room: Impeachment’. It will air daily at 9 a.m. on at least six conservative talk radio stations in Virginia and Florida. Bannon says he will run this operation “until the day after the acquittal of Donald J. Trump”. (IANS)