Steve Bannon, the former White House chief strategist who made an unceremonious exit from the Trump administration last year, said his old boss will bring fire and fury before long to special counsel Robert Mueller.
“I think President Trump is going to war,” Bannon said about the criminal probe into whether Trump’s Republican presidential campaign colluded with Russia, while appearing at a Financial Times Future of News panel in New York on Thursday. “He’s going to war on this.”
Bannon noted the Thursday morning resignation of John Dowd as Trump’s lead outside counsel in the Russia probe — amid an internal dispute with other attorneys on the legal team over whether the president should agree to an interview with Mueller — proves his point.
Despite their bad blood, he had considerate words for Trump. “He’s anything but a dictator, he’s a populist. How can a dictator take nine…
