“I like Steve, but you have to remember he was not involved in my campaign until very late,” Trump said when asked by a New York Post reporter if he still felt confidence in Bannon.
“I had already beaten all the senators and all the governors, and I didn’t know Steve. I’m my own strategist and it wasn’t like I was going to change strategies because I was facing crooked Hillary,” the president said, seeming to hint that Bannon – who began working on the Trump campaign only a few months before the election – was less instrumental in orchestrating his surprise victory against Hillary Clinton in November.