Despite his hopes to eventually reform the Republican party in a way that would be more conservative than ever before, Steve Bannon, former executive chairman of Breitbart News, stepped down from his chairman position. Bannon had been ostracized from all political circles after revealing comments he supposedly made about President Donald Trump’s presidency in Michael Wolff’s book “Fire and Fury.”

President Trump said that Steve Bannon stepped in as chief strategist for the election after he had already secured the Republican primaries. With him as strategist, President Trump secured the election in November 2016. Despite this, President Trump decided that Bannon’s comments, which insulted the President’s children, warranted a different take.

“Steve was a staffer who worked for me after I had already won the nomination by defeating seventeen candidates,” President Trump said. “[He] had very little to do with our historic victory.”

Though Steve was fired, he kept in touch with the President throughout his first year in office. Despite this, President Trump’s criticisms of Bannon were many.

“Steve pretends to be at war with the media, which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at the White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was,” President Trump said. “It is the only thing he does well. Steve was rarely in a one-on-one meeting with me and only pretends to have had influence to fool a few people with no access and no clue, whom he helped write phony books.”

Republicans, including those in Congress, have jumped on this as an excuse to denounce Bannon, whose goals to completely reform America concerned many in the Republican party.

Meanwhile, a lawyer representing President Trump has sent Bannon a cease and desist order for slander. The letter said that legal action was imminent. This most likely refers to the numerous criticisms from Bannon that appeared within the book.

“The three senior guys in the campaign thought it was a good idea to meet with a foreign government inside Trump Tower in the conference room on the 25th floor — with no lawyers,” Bannon said. “They didn’t have any lawyers. Even if you thought that this was not treasonous, or unpatriotic, I happen to think it’s all of that, you should have called the F.B.I. immediately.”