Fox News is reporting that Bannon was indeed put on the NSC by Trump himself in order to help restore the council back to what it should be after they way Susan Rice had ‘operationalized’ it.







Now that he job is done, Trump is removing him from the council:

At the tail end of the reporting, Fox News reporter John Roberts also mentions this little tidbit:

“We are also told though that maybe the President wasn’t particularly happy with the way that Bannon had been grabbing the limelight and that may have played into all of this.”

Well that’s interesting. For all those suggesting that Trump is just a puppet of Bannon, this reporting would seem to contradict that notion.