Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon predicted on Thursday that if John Kelly, the White House chief of staff, leaves his job, President Trump won’t bother to replace him.
Bannon made the comment during an appearance at a Financial Times “Future of News” conference in New York, according to multiple reports.
Steve Bannon: I think if Gen Kelly should decide to leave there might not be another Chief of Staff. #FTFutureNews
— Matthew Harrington (@mj_harrington) March 22, 2018
Bannon, who left the White House in August before briefly returning to Breitbart News as executive chairman, also made his first public remarks regarding Cambridge Analytica, the data analysis firm of which he was the former vice president.
The company, linked to the Trump campaign, has been scrutinized after whistleblower Christopher Wylie claimed earlier in March it had mined information of 50 million users from Facebook during the 2016 election cycle.
Bannon said Thursday he didn’t know how the firm got access to the Facebook data.
He added he didn’t regret incendiary remarks he gave Michael Wolff for Wolff’s “authorized” book covering the first year of Trump’s presidency.
“It is what it is,” he said, per CNN.
Bannon says he has no regrets about anything he said in FIre and Fury. It was authorized and “it is what it is”
— Dana Bash (@DanaBashCNN) March 22, 2018
