Karl Rove bids 'good riddance' to Steve Bannon

Karl Rove, a former senior adviser to former President George W. Bush, said Thursday that chief strategist Steve Bannon only hurt the Trump White House, in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal titled “Good riddance to Steve Bannon.”

“The White House and the country are better off with Mr. Bannon back at the website he described last year as ‘the platform for the alt-right,'” Rove wrote. “He will do less damage there than in the West Wing. Still, week after week, the nation finds itself in the same divided and chaotic place. If President Trump hopes to advance his agenda, he must start providing focus, discipline and persuasion. He’s shown little ability to do this thus far, and so his presidency is stumbling badly.”