Once credited with Trump's success, Bannon quickly fell from grace


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  • Saturday, 19 Aug 2017

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump is joined by (L-R) Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, Vice President Mike Pence, senior advisor Steve Bannon, Communications Director Sean Spicer and National Security Advisor Michael Flynn as he speaks by phone with Russia's President Vladimir Putin in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S. January 28, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When President Donald Trump fired White House chief strategist and former campaign manager Steve Bannon on Friday, it was almost like bidding goodbye to a part of himself.

Trump's most polarizing stances on matters such as immigration and national security closely tracked Bannon's "America First" anti-globalist worldview.

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