A year after being the toast of CPAC, Steve Bannon is nowhere to be found
by Sarah Westwood and Al Weaver | Feb 23, 2018, 12:01 AM OXON HILL, Md. — One year after Steve Bannon’s appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference drew a crowd rivaling President Trump's, the former White House chief strategist will not even set foot inside the Gaylord National Hotel for a conference that will showcase the people who now represent the Trump agenda.
Bannon’s complete absence from an event that featured him heavily in 2017 demonstrates just how much the White House team — and the party itself — has shifted during the first year of Trump’s presidency. Gone, too, from the annual gathering of conservatives are Reince Priebus, Trump’s former chief of staff and former head of the Republican National Committee, and KT McFarland, a former national security aide to Trump. Both Priebus and McFarland had spoken at CPAC in multiple previous years.
Bannon’s fall from the top of the party was swift and complete. Not only was he ousted from the West Wing in August amid an overhaul of the president’s staff, but he lost his position at the helm of Breitbart News in January after an author published insults Bannon had leveled at Trump family members.
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