Burgeroorlog in Trump-land: Kushner en Murdoch willen Bannon dumpen, maar Bannons vrienden vechten terug

For months, Mr. Trump has considered ousting Stephen K. Bannon, the White House chief strategist and relentless nationalist who ran the Breitbart website and called it a “platform for the alt-right.” Mr. Trump has sent Mr. Bannon to a kind of internal exile, and has not met face-to-face for more than a week with a man who was once a fixture in the Oval Office, according to aides and friends of the president.

Haberman reports that Rep. Steve King (R-IA) has said conservatives would be “crushed” if Trump dumped Bannon while Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), the House Freedom Caucus chair, is worried that removing Bannon from the White House may embolden the Democrats and globalists to push Trump away from his voters.

Here’s the bottom line, though. Nobody is bigger than Trump. Certainly not Bannon.

But, as Trump himself has admitted numerous times, his movement is bigger than Trump. And getting rid of Bannon would be the strongest signal to his voters that Trump has sold them out, proving that Rubio was right when he mocked Trump as a con man during the 2016 campaign.

In West Virginia last month, Trump said his enemies were using the Russia scandals to take his historic election away from his movement.

“They can’t beat us at the voting booths so they’re trying to cheat you out of the future and the future that you won,” Trump said. “They’re trying to cheat you out of the leadership you won, with a fake story that is demeaning to all of us.”

Murdoch, along with his globalist White House allies like Gary Cohn, is trying to “cheat” Trump’s movement and voters like Trump’s Deep State and media enemies are trying to do with the Russia “scandals.”

And if Trump allows the Democrats and globalists to steal the White House from his movement by ousting Bannon, he will no longer have the moral high ground to complain about Russia because he will have effectively flipped double middle fingers to his voters and movement by siding with his movement’s opponents who have mocked and loathed Trump and his voters from the beginning.

In politics, as in life, it’s important to dance with the one that brung ya.