The former White House strategist drew a parallel between Trump's crises and that faced by US President Abraham Lincoln during the 19th-century American Civil War.
Bannon devoted much of an interview with Reuters in Italy to making remarks about an anonymous op-ed column in the New York Times claiming that there is a resistance movement within the president's White House and larger administration, labeling it a “coup.”
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“What you saw the other day was as serious as it can get. This is a direct attack on the institutions. This is a coup, Ok,” Bannon said, cited by Reuters.
The New York Times anonymous op-ed column was published on Wednesday, and was claimed to have been written by a Trump administration official who blasted the US president for his consistent “amorality” while claiming that some White House officials “are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.”
Bannon made the allusion that the last time a US president was disrupted at the same level was when General George B McClellan challenged President Lincoln's authority to run the country during the punishing 19th-century US Civil War.
“The country has only ever had such a crisis in the summer of 1862 when General McClellan and the senior generals, all Democrats in the Union army, deemed that Abraham…
