Appearing on Fox News’ Special Report on Friday, Charles Krauthammer offered a brutally honest take on what he believes is going to happen following the resignation of Steve Bannon:
Look, what happened today is that the civil war moved from inside the White House to outside the White House — but the war continues. Bannon is very clearly going after the same list of people he found were undermining the president that he talked about in that interview.
He’s gonna go after them from the Breitbart platform or any other. He’s gonna go after all the softies, as he sees it, on policy, and this is gonna be really a bloody affair. I think he’s been immensely strengthened. I mean, who heard of Bannon a year ago? Everybody’s heard of Bannon now, and I think the meeting with the Mercer’s was very significant.
He’s got, you know, billions of dollars behind him, the platform, the machinery of Breitbart under him, and he’s got a clear free fire zone. He’s not held back anymore. This, I mean, for Trump, it was quite a risk, which is, I think, why it took him so long to get rid of Bannon. It was a double-edged sword, and he’s now gonna have to face one of those edges.
The pertinent portion begins at the 7:10 mark, but the entire segment is worth watching: