{"id":81375,"date":"2017-08-18T16:26:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T20:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=81375"},"modified":"2017-08-18T16:26:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T20:26:57","slug":"theyre-going-thermonuclear-breitbart-declares-war-on-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=81375","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;They&#8217;re Going Thermonuclear&#8221;: Breitbart Declares &#8220;War&#8221; On The White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>The love affair between Breitbart, whose former head Steve Bannon was just fired by Donald Trump, just turned to hate, as confirmed by Joel Pollak, a Breitbart Editor, who moments ago tweeted one word:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"qht\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WAR?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WAR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Joel Pollak (@joelpollak) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\/status\/898595085247324161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As Axios&#8217; Jonathan Swan explains, &#8220;<strong>Joel is a Breitbart editor. They&#8217;re going thermonuclear, I&#8217;m told.\u00a0<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/jonathanvswan\/status\/898598100901576704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#038;ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fnews%2F2017-08-18%2Ftheyre-going-thermonuclear-breitbart-declares-war-white-house<\/p>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"1\"><\/div>\n<p>Separately, as iBankCoin reports, investigative journalist and former Breitbart employee, Lee Stranahan, offered a quick quip on today\u2019s news that Bannon has resigned from the White House, suggesting that Steve would \u2018unleash the beast\u2019 through his online publication and call out those working against the Trump agenda in the White House.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dear <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@POTUS<\/a> : <\/p>\n<p>You have not yet figured out who your real enemies in the White House are. Best of luck without Bannon. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FireMcMaster?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FireMcMaster<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lee Stranahan (@stranahan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stranahan\/status\/898595717542928384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"2\"><\/div>\n<p>Stranahan has been a long time loyalist to Bannon and ardent opponent to several people inside Trump\u2019s White House, namely McMaster, Powell and Cohn. The theory he\u2019s putting forth is that Bannon will have more power outside the White House than inside. While that might be true for Steve, I fail to see how fomenting more internal strife inside the Trump White House will be constructive at this point.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, it\u2019s about to get real interesting soon. Watch here:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ifFTtOnzTOI<\/p>\n<p>As for what Steve Bannon&#8217;s next steps would be,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.axios.com\/bannons-next-move-2474479917.html?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=organic&amp;utm_content=textshort&amp;utm_term=politics\">Axios reports\u00a0<\/a>that it &#8220;will be all about the billionaire Mercer family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"quote_end\">I&#8217;m told Bannon, who visited New York this week, met with Bob Mercer and together they will be a well-funded force on the outside.<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Bannon has felt liberated since it became clear he was being pushed out<\/strong>, according to friends. He&#8217;s told associates he has a &#8220;killing machine&#8221; in Breitbart News, and it&#8217;s possible he returns to lead their editorial operation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A source familiar with Breitbart&#8217;s operations told me they would go &#8220;thermonuclear&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>against &#8220;globalists&#8221; that Bannon and his friends believe are ruining the Trump administration, and by extension, America.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Watch for Breitbart&#8217;s Washington Editor Matt Boyle to be a central figure in this war\u00a0<\/strong>\u2014 which has already begun \u2014 against White House officials like HR McMaster, Dina Powell, Gary Cohn, and Jared and Ivanka.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Then again, Trump may be spared. As Politico&#8217;s Robert Costa tweets, &#8220;<strong>One theme I&#8217;m picking up: Bannon believes next battle is *not* w\/ Trump but w\/ Kushner\/Cohn\/Dina\/HR McMaster. &#8220;Save Trump,&#8221; as one R put it.<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">One theme I&#39;m picking up: Bannon believes next battle is *not* w\/ Trump but w\/ Kushner\/Cohn\/Dina\/HR McMaster. &quot;Save Trump,&quot; as one R put it.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Robert Costa (@costareports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/costareports\/status\/898598473016016896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-08-18\/theyre-going-thermonuclear-breitbart-declares-war-white-house\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-08-18\/theyre-going-thermonuclear-breitbart-declares-war-white-house<\/a><\/p>\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-81375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81375","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=81375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}