Bannon breaks silence on explosive new book, calling Trump 'a great man' hours after Trump excoriated him

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January 4, 2018 3:13 PM

Steve Bannon called President Donald Trump "a great man" after Trump excoriated him for critical comments he made in a new book about the Trump White House.

Steve Bannon, former White House chief strategist, did not deny the veracity of derogatory comments he was reported as making about the president's family and top White House advisors.
But Bannon called the president "a great man" hours after Trump said Bannon had "lost his mind."
"You know I support him day in and day out," he said during his Wednesday night radio show.

Steve Bannon, the former White House chief strategist, did not deny the veracity of deeply critical comments he made about President Donald Trump's family and top White House advisers in "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," a new book by journalist Michael Wolff, but praised the president during a Breitbart News radio show on Wednesday evening.

In excerpts of the book published by The Guardian and New York Magazine on Wednesday, Bannon was quoted describing a 2016 meeting between Russians and top Trump campaign aides as "treasonous," calling Ivanka Trump "dumb as a brick," and predicting that officials leading the Russia investigation will "crack Don Jr. like an egg on national TV."

Trump released a statement excoriating Bannon for his comments on Wednesday, saying his former top adviser had "lost his mind."

Bannon didn't address his blow-up with Trump for the first two hours of

"The President of the United States is a great man," Bannon responded. "You know I support him day in and day out."

He praised the president's agenda and said he's "fighting every day" to fulfill his campaign promises, but stopped short of denying the veracity of the quotes in Wolff's book.

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