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Politics is a struggle for power. The feud between President Donald Trump and his former Chief Strategist Steve Bannon is the latest example of this struggle for power. As Trump and Bannon fight, it only becomes clearer that this battle is the President’s to lose, for he holds the power, not Steve Bannon. The quarrel between these two men began long before the release of Michael Wolff’s book “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.” When Bannon was in the White House as Trump’s Chief Strategist, he was viewed as a symbol which the President earnestly depended on. Bannon, known to be one of the main factors of aiding Trump in taking control of the Republican Party, was always around to remind Trump that he did not gain control of the White House on his own, but he counted on someone else to do a majority of his work. Consequently, Trump did what any man with power would do, fired Steve Bannon, so it seemed as he stood alone with power circulating around himself only. …show more content…
After being fired by Trump, Bannon was power hungry and wanted to attack those closest to Trump (his son Donald Trump Jr., and daughter Ivanka Trump). He chose to pursue those two, for Trump does not get his decision making from the political officials around him, but from his family, for that is who he cares for, and ultimately who he makes his decisions to benefit. Bannon certainly made a valiant attempt to tear apart Trump and his family in “Fire and Fury,” but ended up only hurting his own image, for he lost the limited power he

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