{"id":37533,"date":"2018-09-09T10:18:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T15:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37533"},"modified":"2018-09-09T10:18:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T15:18:39","slug":"this-is-a-coup-okay-bannon-weighs-in-on-anonymous-anti-trump-op-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37533","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;This Is A Coup, Okay&#8221;: Bannon Weighs In On Anonymous Anti-Trump Op-Ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-zerohedge-page-title\" class=\"block block-core block-page-title-block\">\n<h3 class=\"page-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-09-09\/coup-okay-bannon-weighs-anonymous-anti-trump-op-ed\"><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">&#8220;This Is A Coup, Okay&#8221;: Bannon Weighs In On Anonymous Anti-Trump Op-Ed<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-zerohedge-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<article class=\"node node--type-article node--view-mode-full\" role=\"article\" data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen-2077925_22=\"1409\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-2077925_22=\"1409\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-2077925_22=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-2077925_22=\"1\">\n<footer class=\"node__meta\">\n<div class=\"submission-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"node__content\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Responding to an anonymous Op-Ed in the New York Times detailing an active resistance within the Trump White House, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-bannon-interview\/u-s-president-trump-facing-a-coup-bannon-idUSKCN1LP0DH\"><em>Reuters<\/em><\/a>\u00a0that President Trump is facing a &#8220;coup&#8221; the likes of which haven&#8217;t been seen since the American Civil War.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/bannon%20standing.png?itok=7pTen8vL\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/bannon%20standing.png?itok=7pTen8vL\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/bannon%20standing.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/bannon%20standing.png?itok=7pTen8vL 1x\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"344\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"715ef961-3b94-421b-9c90-7d7b2d58e1e6\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>What you saw the other day was as serious as it can get<\/strong>. This is a direct attack on the institutions,\u201d Bannon said while flying to Italy. \u201c<strong>This is a coup, okay<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Wednesday column in the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0slams Trump&#8217;s &#8220;amorality&#8221; and claims that &#8220;Many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bannon told <i>Reuters<\/i>\u00a0that the last time a sitting US president had been challenged like this was during the American Civil War when Democratic General George B. McClellan went after Republican President Abraham Lincoln.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>This is a crisis<\/strong>. The country has only ever had such a crisis in the summer of 1862 <strong>when General McClellan and the senior generals, all Democrats in the Union Army, deemed that Abraham Lincoln was not fit and not competent to be commander in chief<\/strong>,&#8221; said Bannon &#8211; whose departure from the White House was in large part over a fallout with Trump&#8217;s &#8220;establishment&#8221; advisers.\u00a0Bannon said at the time that the &#8220;Republican establishment&#8221; sought to nullify the results of the 2016 election and effectively neuter Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a cabal of Republic establishment figures who believe Donald Trump is not fit to be president of the United States. This is a crisis,\u201d Bannon said in Rome.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI am not a conspiracy guy &#8230; I have said there is no deep state. It is an in-your-face state.\u201d -Steve Bannon<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This Is A Coup, Okay&#8221;: Bannon Weighs In On Anonymous Anti-Trump Op-Ed Responding to an anonymous Op-Ed in the New York Times detailing an active resistance within the Trump White House, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon told\u00a0Reuters\u00a0that President Trump is facing a &#8220;coup&#8221; the likes of which haven&#8217;t been seen since the American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[6],"tags":[920,2321,7844,1921,683,15706,4318],"class_list":["post-37533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-civil-war","tag-coup","tag-donald-trump","tag-new-york-times","tag-reuters","tag-steve-bannon","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37534,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37533\/revisions\/37534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}