By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Former White House strategist Stephen Bannon said President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey was the biggest mistake “maybe in modern political history.”
Bannon made the extraordinary claim during an interview with “60 Minutes” on Sunday.
“I don’t think there’s any doubt that if James Comey had not been fired, we would not have a special counsel,” Bannon told interviewer Charlie Rose.
Bannon said the firing opened the door for the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating whether President Trump and his campaign colluded with Russia to win the White House.
“We would not have the Mueller investigation in the breadth that clearly Mr. Mueller is going,” Bannon said.
Bannon described Washington as “a city of institutions, not individuals. And I think you have to look at it as institutions. The FBI is the institution. The speaker of the house is an institution. The majority leader is an institution. Okay? The Justice Department is an institution. They have an institutional logic of how they proceed and what they’re going to do. And you can’t get caught up in individuals.”
Bannon added that he didn’t learn of Comey’s firing until after it had happened.
