Posted on 01/05/2018 9:27:57 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
The Dow just reached 25,000, the economy is booming, and ISIS has been decimated, so of course the news media is talking about none of these stories. The latest political frenzy surrounds the new book, Fire and Fury, by controversial author Michael Wolff. It is basically a nasty, full-frontal attack on Donald Trump.
In response, the President said that he “authorized Zero access to White House (actually turned him down many times) for author of phony book! I never spoke to him for book. Full of lies, misrepresentations and sources that don’t exist.”
Wolff has a history of questionable journalism. In 2003, he wrote a book and Vanity Fair feature about financier Steven Rattner, who labeled the author both “a total sleazebag,” as well as “an unprincipled writer of fiction.” Wolff was also profiled in the New Republic as a writer who creates scenes from his “imagination rather than from actual knowledge of events.”
Several of the people quoted in Fire and Fury, such as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Vogue editor Anna Wintour and close Trump friend Thomas Barrack, Jr. have totally denied making the statements the author attributed to them.
However, one person who is not disputing any of the extensive quotes in the book is former Trump campaign adviser and White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon. The author relied on Bannon for a large part of the material in this trashy book of Trump bashing.
Sadly, Bannon used the interview opportunities to criticize the President and his family. Ultimately, the book exposed Bannon as nothing more than a back-stabbing Benedict Arnold hellbent on harming the President and generating publicity for himself.
Bannon’s comments about the President and his family are unforgivable. He blasted First Daughter, Ivanka Trump, as “dumb as a brick.’ He ludicrously claimed that the inconsequential meeting between the President’s son, Donald Trump, Jr., and a Russian attorney in Trump Tower was both “treasonous” and “unpatriotic.”
In response to the controversy, Donald Trump Jr. tweeted, “Steve had the honor of working in the White House & serving the country. Unfortunately, he squandered that privilege & turned that opportunity into a nightmare of backstabbing, harassing, leaking, lying & undermining the President. Steve is not a strategist, he is an opportunist.”
The President did not take kindly to Bannon’s participation in the project. He tweeted, “Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind.”
Prior to Bannon being selected as Chief Executive Officer of the Trump campaign in August of 2016, the President had secured the GOP nomination and vanquished 17 Republican party opponents. While Bannon obviously helped Trump win, he was not the main reason the campaign was successful. The genius of the campaign was that Donald Trump was able to articulate the concerns of middle class America. He gave voice to millions of Americans who felt ignored and ridiculed by the political establishment of both parties.
After the Trump victory, Bannon was named Chief Strategist for the President, but apparently spent most of his time at the White House leaking negative stories to the press. When he was fired in August, he returned to his position as Executive Chairman at Breitbart News, but obviously harbored resentment toward the President.
In numerous interviews with media outlets since his White House departure, Bannon has been critical of President Trump, the person who elevated his profile and gave him a tremendous platform. Prior to his association with President Trump, Steve Bannon was relatively unknown across the country. Instead of being grateful for the exposure provided by President Trump, Bannon allowed his petty jealousy and gargantuan ego to harm the implementation of the agenda that he supposedly supports.
As noted by White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Breitbart News “should look at and consider” severing ties with their Executive Chairman. Bannon’s grandiose plan to field conservative Republican candidates to run in certain 2018 U.S. Senate races has now imploded as several of these candidates are backing away from him. He certainly harmed the Republican Party’s chances in the Alabama Senate race by vigorously supporting Judge Roy Moore and opposing the President’s selection, Luther Strange.
After the controversy erupted this week, Bannon’s major donor, Rebekah Mercer, distanced herself from her former colleague. Of particular note was this statement, “My family and I have not communicated with Steve Bannon in many months and have provided no financial support to his political agenda, nor do we support his recent actions and statements.”
The book controversy will not help President Trump fulfill his promises to the American people as it will give the hateful media another opportunity to attack him. Nevertheless, he is not the big loser in this sordid saga. The biggest loser is Steve Bannon, who has not only lost friends and influence, but he has also been exposed and it’s not a pretty sight to see.
He's already lost. I don't see him returning. I'd leave him alone.
Man, Peter King was right. Jack Daniels did a beat-down on Bannon.
Leave him alone?
He’s a traitor......he’s a liar......
Leave him alone?
He has to be held responsible
and the media, of course is running with it because it gives them fuel. I expect this from them.
What bothers me the most is that most all of YOU and regular conservatives are NOW believing anything they write - carrying their water - without even a smidgen of research into this puffed up blowhard, Wolff.
I'm ashamed of the lot of you....helping him and the media get Bannon out of their hair. Bannon’s answer to Trump's fury was very supportive of the President.
I WAS also disappointed that Pres. Trump reacted so soon, without a little looking into it. I will also be deeply disappointed if Breitbart fires him. Because, it they do,you all and the media will have won a big battle tactic against Pres Trump, and they will use it again - and again.
I wouldn’t worry about Steve.
My opinion of him? I think he literally has “lost his mind”.
I leaned heavily toward Bannon having a personal or psychological crisis of some kind. I really hate to hear it might be green eyed jealousy. He had nothing to be jealous about, given his own shining resume, his own success and his own considerable self made wealth, handed nothing that I know about.
latest tweet 8:32 pm
“Michael Wolff is a total loser who made up stories in order to sell this really boring and untruthful book. He used Sloppy Steve Bannon, who cried when he got fired and begged for his job. Now Sloppy Steve has been dumped like a dog by almost everyone. Too bad!”
Steve is set to make a few million bucks off the backs of libtards.
Understand the art of the rickroll.
I love these Freepers who loved Bannon last week. Now he’s terrible. They loved Ted Cruz when Trump was his best friend, then he was worse than Hillary. Scaramoucci was great, then terrible. Etc. Etc. Contorting themselves like Democrats.
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How is he going to make money?
He is the “source”. Profits are shared.
I like your thinking ability to a point.
You lose it when you become political.
Bannon’s silence is defeanening
The Book is #1. Why say anything?
Ooooh.
Trump tweet???
Geeez. There’s more boiling than an angry father, there. I get the feeling Trump has gripes we don’t know about, but kept his cool and his mouth shut, remained a gentleman, until Bannon slandered his kids so terribly and implicated Trump in a Tower mtg with the Russians.
This is painful to watch.
Those who support Bannon need to explain why he is silent
Lots of people are screaming out loud that Wolff is a liar
Bannon’s silence is defeanening
‘I rather agree with those that say this author is a lying, misquoting scumbag who, not only a former editor of his castigated , and most everyone he’s quoted elsewhere say he lied, but he, himself, even admits that he mis-quotes and fabricates to write what he thinks people WANT to hear and what HE thinks will make better copy and to hell with the truth.’
Bannon is the one who let Wolff into the WH and who gave extensive interviews to him. Without Bannon Wolfe’s WH access would have been severely limited or even eliminated. Is there anyone else who was in the WH when Wolff was writing his book who gave him access? Bannon is the only one who’s been documented as fraternizing with Wolff. Why did Bannon cooperate so extensively with a known liar and character assassin?
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