Bannon Calls Comey Firing the Biggest Mistake in ‘Modern Political History’<br />Speaker Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin and Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority<br />leader, two Republicans Mr. Bannon accused of “trying to nullify the 2016 election.”<br />“They do not want Donald Trump’s populist, economic nationalist agenda to be implemented,” Mr. Bannon said.<br />“I was the only guy that said, ‘He’s talking about something, taking it up to a higher level,’” Mr.<br />Bannon said, then echoed Mr. Trump’s language in the days after the Charlottesville violence.<br />Does it end — does it end in taking down the Washington Monument?”<br />Yet Mr. Bannon accused neo-Nazis of “getting a free ride off Donald Trump” for their role in white supremacist rallies.<br />“We would not have the Mueller investigation and the breadth that clearly Mr. Mueller is going for,” Mr. Bannon said.<br />The president set a March end date for the program and asked Congress to come up with a solution in the meantime, a task<br />that Mr. Bannon said could split Republicans and cost them their House majority in the 2018 midterm elections.
