Bannon: Trump is facing a 'coup'
By Megan Keller - 09/09/18 05:57 PM EDT
Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon said in an interview released Sunday that President Trump is facing a "coup," after the New York Times published an anonymous op-ed written by a "senior administration official" criticizing the president.
"What you saw the other day was as serious as it can get. This is a direct attack on the institutions," Bannon told Reuters. "This is a coup, okay."
The op-ed described how its author and other nameless officials work to curb the president's worse impulses.
"This is a crisis," Bannon told Reuters. "There is a cabal of Republic establishment figures who believe Donald Trump is not fit to be president of the United States."
Bannon contended that this is an almost unprecedented occurrence in American history.
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