Bannon has been telling friends he and Trump occasionally speak, source says
Source: cnn
By Jim Acosta Updated 2:08 PM ET, Fri August 21, 2020
(CNN)Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has been telling friends he and President Donald Trump have been communicating with one another in recent months, a source close to the Trump campaign told CNN.
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In the Oval Office Thursday, Trump said he has not been "dealing" with Bannon "at all."
"I haven't been dealing with him for a long period of time, as most of the people in this room know. He was involved in our campaign. He worked for Goldman Sachs. He worked for a lot of companies. But he was involved, likewise, in our campaign, and for a small part of the administration, very early on. I haven't been dealing with him at all," Trump said.
The President did say he was "sad" about Bannon's arrest. Last month, the President told Fox News he appreciated words of support from Bannon, who hosts a pro-Trump podcast.
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany suggested Trump has not been in contact with Bannon in a statement issued Thursday.
"President Trump has not been involved with Steve Bannon since the campaign and the early part of the Administration, and he does not know the people involved with this project," McEnany said.
That statement is false as Trump did know at least two of the "We Build the Wall" project organizers, Bannon and former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach. Trump Jr. had also spoken out in favor of the private wall effort.............................
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that Trump and Bannon still talked on Trump's "private" cell phone after his firing, but they might have stopped talking after this little faux pas by Bannon: "In his 2019 book Siege, Wolff wrote, "Trump was vulnerable because for 40 years he had run what increasingly seemed to resemble a semi-criminal enterprise," then quoted Bannon as saying, "I think we can drop the 'semi' part." Wolff wrote that Bannon predicted investigations into Trump's finances would be his political downfall, quoting Bannon as saying "This is where it isn't a witch hunt – even for the hard core, this is where he turns into just a crooked business guy, and one worth $50 million instead of $10 billion. Not the billionaire he said he was, just another scumbag."
That's from Wikipedia, by the way. 