Stephen Bannon reportedly mulled a presidential run with a brand new party

Steve Bannon.
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Should President Trump exit the White House before his first term is up — whether by resignation or impeachment — his former chief strategist Stephen Bannon at one point considered himself the natural successor to the Oval Office. So says an excerpt from Josh Green's Devil's Bargain, a forthcoming book on Bannon, excerpts of which were published by Politico on Monday.

Green reports that Bannon told close friends that Trump's departure would "eliminate the first great champion of Trumpism" without making a "negative judgment on the politics that had swept him into office." He envisioned a movement not dependent on Trump's personality and himself as its second great champion.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.