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> Maybe he expected this outcome?

If you subscribe to the "provoke outrage to cover something else" theory, this might be it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/politics/trump-holds-...

Trump added Breitbart's Bannon to the National Security Council, and demoted the Director of National Intelligence and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from it to make room.

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> Trump added Breitbart's Bannon to the National Security Council

That's pure madness. That guy shouldn't even be close to a baseball bat, let alone sitting in on the NSC.

Out of curiosity, why? What things has he done? I'm quite ignorant on the man.

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Want to elaborate? I can think of at least two different ways to take your comment. (As it is, it's not adding much to the discussion.)

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