Bannon, according to the book, told Priebus, whom he had met only once years earlier: “Look, you don’t know me…I need to have you here this afternoon. And this girl [GOP operative] Katie Walsh, who I just hear is a superstar.”
Advertisement
Bannon, Woodward wrote, “wanted to be sure that the RNC was not going to leave Trump” because “there were rumors about donors fleeing and how everyone in the party was trying to figure a way out of the Trump mess.”
Bannon, according to the book, told Priebus they had to work as a team.
“As Bannon later remarked with his trademark profanity, ‘I reached out and sucked Reince Preibus’ dick on August 15 and told the establishment, we can’t win without you.’”
Join the conversation as a VIP Member