By By Derek Hawkins The Washington Post Stephen K. Bannon, the White House chief strategist, seemed to take issue with President Donald Trump on North Korea, attacked white supremacists as "clowns" and "losers" and described his efforts against administration rivals in an unusual interview Wednesday with The American Prospect, a progressive magazine. The interview with magazine co-editor and columnist Robert Kuttner was initiated by Bannon, Kuttner said, in an Anthony Scaramucci-style phone call out of the blue in response to a column Kuttner had written on China. "Bannon was in high spirits when he phoned me Tuesday afternoon to discuss the politics of taking a harder line with China, and minced no words describing his efforts to neutralize rivals at the Departments of Defense, State and Treasury," wrote Kuttner. "'They're wetting themselves,' he said, proceeding to detail how he would oust some of his opponents at State and Defense." On North Korea, Bannon said: "'Until somebody solves the part of the equation that shows me that ten million people in Seoul don't die in the first 30 minutes from conventional weapons, I don't know what you're talking about, there's no military solution here, they got us.'" That comment seemed at odds with Trump's "fire and fury" threats to use military force against North Korea. On China, Bannon told Kuttner that the United States was at "economic war" and warned that "one of us is going to be a hegemon in 25 or 30 years and it's gonna be them if we go down this path," according to the article. "On Korea, they're just tapping us along.
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By Derek Hawkins
The Washington Post, The Charleston Gazette
Thu, 08/17/2017 - 7:19am
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