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Steve Bannon rips Congress as a ‘group of swells’

By Paul Bedard

Published November 13, 2017 1:18pm ET

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Steve Bannon rips Congress as a ‘group of swells’ — President Donald Trump gestures after his speech, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017, during the presidential inauguration. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP) | Saul Loeb

One of the most interesting nuggets from the new biography on former Trump whisperer Steve Bannon being released this week is his wish that President Trump had directed his tough Inaugural Address to Congress.

Author and former Washington Examiner editor Keith Koffler wrote in Bannon: Always the Rebel of how Bannon and top policy aide Stephen Miller felt the Jan. 20 speech went.

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