Stephen Bannon out at the White House after turbulent run

The president has struggled to overcome the dysfunction that has plagued his administration

'Great manipulator' Steve Bannon quits as Trump's chief strategist

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Steve Bannon's outsized influence on the President was captured in a February cover of Time magazine with the headline "The Great Manipulator". Photo: Reuters

Maggie Haberman, Michael D Shear & Glenn Thrush | NYT

9 min read Last Updated : Dec 10 2019 | 2:24 PM IST

Stephen K. Bannon, the embattled chief strategist who helped President Trump win the 2016 election by embracing their shared nationalist impulses, departed the White House on Friday after a turbulent tenure shaping the fiery populism of the president’s first seven months in office.

Mr. Bannon’s exit, the latest in a string of high-profile West Wing shake-ups, came as Mr. Trump is under fire for saying that “both sides” were to blame for last week’s deadly violence in Charlottesville, Va. Critics accused the president of channeling Mr. Bannon when he equated white supremacists and

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