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2. Gingrich: Trump 'more isolated than he realizes' (WARNING: Slime-bucket advises slime-bucket)

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Sat Aug 19, 2017, 12:12 AM

Aug 2017

By Sophie Tatum
Updated 9:38 PM ET, Fri August 18, 2017

... "I think he's in a position right now where he's much more isolated than he realizes," said Gingrich, a former speaker of the House of Representatives who was a loyal Trump supporter throughout the campaign.

"On the Hill, he has far more people willing to sit to one side and not help him right now, and I think that he needs to recognize he's taken a good first step with bringing in Gen. (John) Kelly (as chief of staff), but he needs to think about what has not worked," Gingrich said.

Hours after Gingrich's comments, news broke that Trump had fired chief strategist Steve Bannon, according to multiple sources -- the latest of a series of White House departures in recent months ...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/18/politics/newt-gingrich-donald-trump-isolated/index.html

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This could get interesting. The base fighting with the base. Quixote1818 Aug 2017 #1

Could be. Or maybe it's just a shadow play. struggle4progress Aug 2017 #4

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So the bannon faction is to the reight of the tea party faction angstlessk Aug 2017 #5

The Bannon faction is more of a nationalist-populist faction. Willie Pep Aug 2017 #6

You try to make it sound acceptable... angstlessk Aug 2017 #7

Yeah fascist works too. Willie Pep Aug 2017 #8

bannon has been succesful shifting AlexSFCA Aug 2017 #9

I thought that many of the younger Alt-Right types were not religious. Willie Pep Aug 2017 #12

Someone tell that chump about Gregor Strasser. sofa king Aug 2017 #10

These freaks are trying to start another civil war based on their hate. C Moon Aug 2017 #11

It almost sounds like Bannon is sending a octoberlib Aug 2017 #13

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That presidency is over because Bannon was President. NT enough Aug 2017 #15