Posted on 01/03/2018 10:30:12 AM PST by DCBryan1
President Donald Trump distanced himself from his former chief strategist Steve Bannon on Wednesday, contending that "he not only lost his job" but also "lost his mind" when he left the White House.
On Wednesday, excerpts from an upcoming Michael Wolff book showed that Bannon called a June 2016 meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer "treasonous" and "unpatriotic."
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Several media outlets have posted the ‘statement’, in full, at their sites.
h/t fours
Full text of today’s official WH statement on Bannon has been published by all the news organizations now, including Breitbart and Fox. Says Sarah Huckabee Sanders handed out the statement before a press conference today.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/01/03/donald-trump-furious-steve-bannon-not-only-lost-his-job-he-lost-his-mind/
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/03/read-president-donald-trumps-full-statement-on-steve-bannon.html
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/01/03/trump-slams-bannon-after-criticism-says-ex-chief-strategist-lost-his-mind.html
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-text/trump-statement-on-former-white-house-strategist-bannon-idUSKBN1ES1QD
aaht’s not Bannon’s fault. It’s Moore’s and the media’s and to some extent McConnell’s.
LOL...I just reposted your post (to me, from upthread :)
After the Alabama debacle, Trump could not wait for this opportunity to attack Bannon.
Bannon went way out on a limb and the branch broke.... stupidity has consequences.
Andrew Breitbart would be ashamed of the division and lies Steve Bannon is spreading!— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) January 3, 2018
It would be amazing if there would have been a nice simple path to keeping this seat with a nice 30 point margin... #thankssteve https://t.co/uB7DXMZjiH— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) January 3, 2018
Wow, Just looked at the comments section on Breitbart. Wow. When Bannon has lost Breitbart, he’s left with . . . umm, nothing.— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) January 3, 2018
Or it could be WWE style theatrics orchestrated by Trump.
All’s fair in the war against the Swamp and the crooked media.
I think it’s real Don Trump Jr going after Bannon all of the sudden on his twitter
https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/948639790295142402
Trump seems to have surrounded himself with a bunch of questionable characters. (One of them is Sessions.)
I want Bannon on Video disavowing this story and post it to Breitbart. Hours have gone by and Nada...
knew Steve Bannon was off his rocker when he said on 60 Minutes that the President had made “one of the worst political mistakes in modern history” by firing James Comey.
Only a year ago, Bannon was quietly working behind the scenes to help get conservatives elected, but he let his ego get in the way, and his big mouth, and is now ensuring that conservatives will NOT get elected.
And not only that, he has given the Democrats and the liberal media, great ammunition to drive home their narrative that the Trump family is a crime family.
As I have repeatedly warned those who run the Breitbart News website over their constant, cheap shots at Jared and Ivanka because of their political views: You will NEVER advance the conservative agenda BY ATTACKING THE PRESIDENT’S FAMILY, you will only anger him as we are now seeing.
President Trump should not have said anything about this. Bannon was going after Don Jr., Manafort, Kushner and some other entirely expendable underlings including Ivanka.
Steve Bannon appears to have contracted Karl Rove disease.
“President Trump should not have said anything about this. Bannon was going after Don Jr., Manafort, Kushner and some other entirely expendable underlings including Ivanka.”
Yeah, Trump should have let a Fat egomaniac call his son a Traitor. Are you f****** insane?
Could be. I certainly don’t see any of the subject matter to be objectionable in the Don Jr. meeting, as described.
Thanks. We’ll see how it plays out. There may be more to it than I was willing to accept.
Sessions is questionable? Maybe he’s establishment but his character is questionable as in he’s shady? Hmmm interesting.
Bannon was working on the campaign and came on late to the show (after POTUS won primaries and was the nominee) and was fired four months after POTUS was sworn into office.
Your thoughts are my thoughts on this.
With new information coming out, I’m left scratching my head.
We’ll see how it plays out.
Listened to most of the Jeff Kuhner Show and now Howie Carr, and they both are discussing this story as if it is completely factual, all statements attributed to Bannon and Trump’s response.
Was hoping it would prove to be fake news, but nothing to refute it so far.
I give Obama credit for ONE thing..the people he surrounded himself with were loyal to him..they would die for him they would NEVER EVER say one bad thing about him..they believed in his agenda, even now..would defend him til their dying breath..the people Trump surrounds himself with(Not all of them but some) would sell Trump out for 5 bucks and a pat on the head..sad but true..they are NOT loyal to him
Still waiting to hear it directly. I trust nothing these days, it’s all bs chatter imho
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