Former White House strategist Bannon attacks Trump aides critical of his Charlottesville remarks
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President Donald Trump’s ex-strategist is blasting White House aides who publicly distance themselves from the president’s response to Charlottesville, yet stick it out in the West Wing.
Steve Bannon, in an interview with the CBS television network weeks after he was pushed out from the administration, singled out Trump economic adviser Gary Cohn, saying, “If you don’t like what he’s doing and you don’t agree with it, you have an obligation to resign.”
Cohn, in a separate interview with The Financial Times, had sharply denounced Trump for saying that “many sides” were to blame for the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, and criticised the administration’s response to the incident.
Bannon’s take: “You can tell him, ‘Hey, maybe you can do it a better way.’ But if you’re going to break, then resign. If you’re going to break with him, resign.”
Asked if Cohn should have quit, Bannon said: “Absolutely.”
