Steve Bannon back at Breitbart News after being pushed out of Trump team

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Steve Bannon has returned to the conservative website Breitbart News after being pushed out of Donald Trump&&num;8217&semi;s team following a turbulent seven months&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The blunt-spoken and divisive strategist&comma; who rose from the Trump campaign to a top White House post&comma; was pushed out by the president on Friday&period; He has returned as executive chairman to Breitbart News&comma; which he led before joining the campaign&comma; and presided over its Friday evening editorial meeting&comma; the news site said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>From Breitbart&comma; there was a dramatic one-word warning&period; &&num;8220&semi;&num;WAR&comma;&&num;8221&semi; tweeted senior editor at large Joel B Pollak&period; Several sources said Mr Bannon had been hinting for weeks that he might soon return to the helm of Breitbart News&period; At one point he casually discussed it as though it was a certainty&comma; a source said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Bannon told Bloomberg politics he would continue to fight the same fights from outside the White House&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;If there&&num;8217&semi;s any confusion out there&comma; let me clear it up&colon; I&&num;8217&semi;m leaving the White House and going to war for Trump against his opponents &&num;8211&semi; on Capitol Hill&comma; in the media&comma; and in corporate America&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Still&comma; Bannon told allies he intended to hold the administration accountable if it falters on campaign promises&period; Mr Bannon&&num;8217&semi;s turbulent tenure was marked by the departure of much of Mr Trump&&num;8217&semi;s original senior staff&period; He pressed the president to enact some of his contentious campaign promises&comma; including a travel ban and pulling out of the Paris climate change agreement&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump has now forced out his hard-line national security adviser&comma; his chief of staff&comma; his press secretary and two communications directors&period; That&&num;8217&semi;s on top of the FBI director he inherited from former president Barack Obama&period; Mr Bannon&&num;8217&semi;s departure is especially significant since he was viewed as Mr Trump&&num;8217&semi;s connection to his most-committed voters and the protector of the disruptive&comma; conservative agenda that propelled him to the White House&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;It&&num;8217&semi;s a tough pill to swallow if Steve is gone because you have a Republican West Wing that&&num;8217&semi;s filled with generals and Democrats&comma;&&num;8221&semi; former campaign strategist Sam Nunberg said&period; &&num;8220&semi;It would feel like the twilight zone&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Bannon&&num;8217&semi;s nationalistic&comma; outsider conservatism served as a guiding force for Mr Trump&&num;8217&semi;s rise to office&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Without him&comma; Mr Trump&&num;8217&semi;s agenda is in the hands of more moderate advisers&comma; including his son-in-law&comma; oldest daughter and an economic adviser Mr Bannon slammed as &&num;8220&semi;globalist&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But he was also accused by critics of leaking to reporters for self-promotion and egging on Mr Trump&&num;8217&semi;s most damaging impulses&period; Spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Mr Bannon and chief of staff John Kelly&comma; only recently installed&comma; agreed that Friday would be his last day&period; &&num;8220&semi;We are grateful for his service and wish him the best&comma;&&num;8221&semi; she said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One person close to Mr Bannon said he had offered his resignation on August 7 to go into effect a week later&comma; the one-year anniversary of when he officially joined the presidential campaign&period; But they said the departure was delayed after violence in Charlottesville&comma; Virginia&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump has recently downplayed Mr Bannon&&num;8217&semi;s role in his campaign and avoided an opportunity to express confidence in him publicly&period; &&num;8220&semi;He&&num;8217&semi;s a good person&period; He actually gets very unfair press in that regard&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he said earlier this week&period; &&num;8220&semi;But we&&num;8217&semi;ll see what happens with Mr&period; Bannon&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump recently signalled to confidants that he would dismiss Mr Bannon but had not decided a timeframe&comma; a source said&period; But Mr Bannon had been telling people as recently as this week that he believed his job was safe and he would leave only if fired&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed4f42132f4">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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