Steve Bannon, the former White House strategist, has stepped down as executive chairman of Breitbart News in the latest fallout from an incendiary tell-all book about Donald Trump.
Mr Bannon incurred the wrath of the White House after he was quoted in journalist Michael Wolff’s book Fire and Fury questioning the president’s fitness for office and accusing Mr Trump’s son of treason for meeting a Russian lawyer during the election campaign.
His departure from the rightwing internet site he helped expand rounds off a fall from grace of one of the most influential figures behind Mr Trump’s 2016 election victory. Mr Bannon went on to have a dominant role in the early months of the Trump White House, before quitting the administration last summer following John Kelly’s elevation to the position of chief of staff.