Steve Bannon voted Sunday he “regrets” his comments made to author Michael Wolff in his iffy book “Fire and Fury” that has shaken the Trump White Lodgings.
“My support is also unwavering for the president and his agenda,” Bannon said in a report, first reported by Axios, the political news website. NBC News later clinched the statement.
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Bannon said he also regrets not communicating out sooner about
“inaccurate reporting” about President Donald Trump’s son Donald Jr.
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In Wolff’s regulations, which went on sale Friday, Bannon said the June 2016 rendezvous at Trump Tower between the president’s eldest son and a Russian lawyer was “treasonous” and “unpatriotic.”
Wolff also exemplified Bannon as saying: “They’re going to crack Don Junior like an egg on nationalist TV.'”
In his statement, Bannon said: “Donald Trump, Jr. is both a patriot and a goodness man. He has been relentless in his advocacy for his father and the agenda that has helped trend our country around.”
He said his comments were not aimed at Trump Jr.
“My reveals were aimed at Paul Manafort, a seasoned campaign professional with encounter and knowledge of how the Russians operate,” Bannon said. “He should have differentiated they are duplicitous, cunning and not our friends.”
Manafort, Trump’s campaign forewoman from June to August 2016, was indicted in October in special instruct Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian collusion with the president’s run in the 2016 presidential election.
Bannon’s comments to Wolff, which were outset reported Wednesday by The Guardian, provoked Trump to say that Bannon had “past his mind.”
Bannon, who headed the Trump presidential campaign, left his job as Caucasian House political advisor in August by mutual consent with the charge.
“When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind,” Trump said Wednesday in a expression.
The Guardian obtained a copy of the book nearly a week before it had been assigned to go on sale. The publisher, Henry Holt & Co., moved up the sale date to Friday after attorneys for Trump imperiled to seek a cease and desist order to stop the sales.
Wolff’s regulations describes Trump’s behavior as childlike, and it questions his mental fitness. That ostensibly prompted an extraordinary statement on Saturday by Trump defending his own mental fitness.
“Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been attitude stability and being, like, really smart,” Trump tweeted.
“I a crapped from VERY successful businessman, to top T.V. Star … to President of the Pooled States (on my first try). I think that would qualify as not smart, but master….and a very stable genius at that!”
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In censuring the book a day earlier, Trump derided Bannon as “Sloppy Steve.”
“Michael Wolff is a compute loser who made up stories in order to sell this really unending and untruthful book,” Trump said. “He used Sloppy Steve Bannon, who puled when he got fired and begged for his job. Now Sloppy Steve has been dumped similar to a dog by almost everyone. Too bad!”
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Read Axios’ preoccupied story here.