{"id":71190,"date":"2017-04-12T17:51:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T21:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=71190"},"modified":"2017-04-12T17:51:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T21:51:41","slug":"trump-wont-definitively-say-he-still-backs-bannon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=71190","title":{"rendered":"Trump won\u2019t definitively say he still backs Bannon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/6af8a48113b66b8d231f18479bb683d86a1e8ee9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/6af8a48113b66b8d231f18479bb683d86a1e8ee9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"441\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/6af8a48113b66b8d231f18479bb683d86a1e8ee9.jpg 664w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/6af8a48113b66b8d231f18479bb683d86a1e8ee9-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"entry-content entry-content-read-more\">\n<div id=\"author-byline\">\n<p class=\"byline\">By Michael Goodwin<br \/>\nNewYork Post<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Washington\u2019s rumor mill is working overtime on the fate of presidential aide Steve Bannon, <a href=\"http:\/\/trump%20boots%20steve%20bannon%20from%20national%20security%20council\/\">who is said to be at the center of the rampant White House infighting<\/a>. When I asked the president Tuesday afternoon if he still has confidence in Bannon, who took over the campaign in mid-August, I did not get a definitive yes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like Steve, but you have to remember he was not involved in my campaign until very late,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI had already beaten all the senators and all the governors, and I didn\u2019t know Steve. I\u2019m my own strategist and it wasn\u2019t like I was going to change strategies because I was facing crooked Hillary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He ended by saying, \u201cSteve is a good guy, but I told them to straighten it out or I will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/04\/11\/trump-wont-definitively-say-he-still-backs-bannon\/\">http:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/04\/11\/trump-wont-definitively-say-he-still-backs-bannon\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}