Steve Bannon’s closest ally leaves White House as yet another rat deserts Donald Trump’s sinking ship

| 11:03 pm EDT July 6, 2017
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Turnover happens in any presidential administration, but not at the rate which Donald Trump has been losing key people in his relatively short time in office. He’s only been able to fill a small fraction of the jobs in the White House to begin with, and people have been bailing at an alarming rate – either because they’re as corrupt as he is, or because they’re rats who want off Trump’s sinking ship. Today’s latest departure hits Steve Bannon right where it hurts.

Bannon thought he could remake the White House in Breitbart’s image. He got Donald Trump to appoint him to the National Security Council, which set off a tidal wave of controversy. He also hired some of his own Breitbart writers for key White House positions, including Sebastian Gorka and Tera Dahl. But Gorka has such a shady background that he never could get security clearance, and ended up transferring to meaningless executive branch job instead. And now Dahl is just flat out bailing.

Dahl is moving to a meaningless job at the US Agency for International Development according to CNN (link), which is a massive demotion from her current National Security Council job. So the official explanation, which is that she was always planning to take this demotion, is a joke. Because no scandals have surfaced around her to explain her departure from the White House, it’s more likely that she’s just another rat who wants off before Donald Trump’s ship finishes sinking.

It also means that Steve Bannon has lost his closest remaining ally in the White House. It’s no longer clear what Bannon’s role even is. Then again, it’s no longer clear what anyone’s role is in Donald Trump’s increasingly non-functional White House. The skeleton crew driving the S.S. Trump over a waterfall just became even smaller today. If you’re a regular reader, feel free to support Palmer Report