In a rare interview with the progressive magazine American Prospect, White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon slammed white supremacists amid national outrage over last weekend’s racist Charlottesville car attack.

Prospect.org reports:

I asked Bannon about the connection between his program of economic nationalism and the ugly white nationalism epitomized by the racist violence in Charlottesville and Trump’s reluctance to condemn it. Bannon, after all, was the architect of the strategy of using Breitbart to heat up white nationalism and then rely on the radical right as Trump’s base. He dismissed the far right as irrelevant and sidestepped his own role in cultivating it: “Ethno-nationalism—it’s losers. It’s a fringe element. I think the media plays it up too much, and we gotta help crush it, you know, uh, help crush it more.” “These guys are a collection of clowns,” he added.

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Recent reports suggest Chief Strategist Steve Bannon’s days are numbered at the White House. Such reports have dogged Bannon for months and yet, the former Breitbart News chairman is still a top official in the Trump administration. At a press conference at Trump Tower in New York City, President Trump broke his silence on Steve Bannon’s future at the White House.

Washington Examiner reports:

President Trump on Tuesday called his chief strategist Steve Bannon a “good man,” but answered vaguely when asked whether he has confidence in Bannon. “We’ll see what happens with Mr. Bannon, but he’s a good person and I think the press treats him frankly very unfairly,” he said in Trump Tower in New York on Tuesday. Bannon has been the subject of speculation for the last few weeks, and some reports say he’s on the way out of the White House. Trump said only that he likes Bannon, and refused to speculate on his fate. Trump also reiterated that he got far in the 2016 primaries without Bannon’s help. “I like Mr. Bannon. He’s a friend of mine. But Mr. Bannon came on very late, you know that,” Trump said.

Former Donald Trump assistant and political consultant Sam Nunberg went off on H. R. McMaster and Matt Drudge Sunday in an interview with The Daily Caller. Nunberg was particularly upset with The Drudge Report’s recent attacks on Chief Trump Strategist Steve Bannon.

Nunberg threatened Matt Drudge with “serious fooking consequences” if he continues his “jihad” against Steve Bannon.

Nunberg told The Daily Caller that he was “very perturbed” by the Axios story and tied in Bannon’s reported downfall to the Drudge Report, which continues to link to stories that are negative to the White House chief strategist.