Trump says he’ll tell Bannon to stop picking on Mitch McConnell’s friends

McClatchy DC Bureau ^ | 10/16/2017 | LESLEY CLARK

[E. Pluribus Unum]

WASHINGTON Donald Trump on Monday threw a life raft to the most unpopular Republican in Congress, publicly expressing his support for Mitch McConnell and pledging to ask his anti-establishment friends to leave the Senate leader and his friends alone.

Until Monday, the Senate Majority Leader’s reputation as a canny tactician had taken a beating this year. Major legislation stalled. Critics from his own party called for his ouster. His approval rating was far below that of other congressional leaders from either party.

Then along came Trump on Monday, standing beside the Kentucky Republican in the Rose Garden, praising him as a leader who shares his agenda and pledging to ask McConnell’s chief antagonist to lay off the Senate leader’s GOP allies.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Heh heh heh...

Good cop/bad cop Trump twisting arms, power politics.

[Starboard]

Exactly. Trump’s successes expose their failures and duplicity.

[taterjay]

Shouldn’t we be doing this with a Democrat Majority leader or Democrat Speaker?? Mitch is scared finally.

[Sacajaweau]

My prediction....The Blue slip dilemma will disappear.

[Sacajaweau]

That makes sense. They’ve been buds for a long time.

[bagster]

Good cop, bad cop.

[jjotto]

Probably Gen. Kelly, Trump’s boss, forgot to tell the President that Steve Bannon no longer works for them.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Trump says he’ll tell Bannon to stop picking on Mitch McConnell’s friends Wink Wink

[Starboard]

Mitch is scared finally.

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Yes, its true that Moore’s win shocked the GOPe but Mitch is too entrenched and arrogant to be scared. He and his allies are just shifting to other tactics to continue obstructing and stalling Trump’s progress. They cannot allow the Outsider to win for fear it will open the door to future outsiders. The Swamp protects its own. That’s all it cares about.

[PapaBear3625]

I would settle for McConnell adjourning the Senate for a real Christmas recess, so that Trump can make a bunch of recess appointments. The lag in getting confirmations done is getting ridiculous.

[NTHockey]

Yeah, wink, wink.

[Lakeshark]

For the first time, the GOP elites like McConnell are genuinely afraid of Trump’s voting base.

They now see the peril they are in.

And McConnell may see what Trump is doing (I sorta doubt it), but mitch is caught in the maelstrom.

[KeyLargo]

[jdsteel]

“I think Trump and Bannon are doing good cop-bad cop.”

Beat me to it!!!

[hal ogen]

One corrupt loser at a time...patience.

[iontheball]

I am thinking we are witnessing the President's and Bannon’s Mutt and Jeff/Good Cop, Bad Cop routine playing out against his adversaries and the media. It worked in Alabama and it may work with McConnell. The President keeps them off balance as they ask themselves - does he really mean the positive things he says about the RINOs? Or, is he just stringing them along while Bad Boy Bannon proceeds to lower the boom in the backfield?

[Buckeye McFrog]

Nah. Art of the deal. Trump smells blood in the water and apparently thinks he has Mitch in a place where he can get him to cry Uncle.

[Paine in the Neck]

That’ll work as well as supporting Luther.

[Moonman62]

LOL! Trump knows his friends will laugh at the request.

This is a kick to the Swamp Turtle’s nuts.

[gunnyg]

Did POTUS.45 ;) ?
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