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Posted on 02/03/2017 12:00:28 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
It appears that President Trump’s appetite for chaos has its limits, which may be a restraint on top adviser Stephen K. Bannon.
On Wednesday, a senior White House official confirmed to Yahoo News that Trump was displeased by the disorderly rollout of his executive order temporarily banning refugees and immigrants from seven Middle East nations, as CNN first reported. White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, the official said, would now have more control over the process of drafting and circulating executive orders for wider review before release in the future.
Bannon and policy adviser Stephen Miller were widely reported to have drafted the refugee executive order and released it without following the regular process of interagency review, catching much of the government and the Congress off-guard and stranding some refugees at airports who had gone through lengthy vetting processes already.
Bannon is a fan of ancient Chinese military strategy literature, such as Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War,” which emphasizes the importance of using secrecy and trickery, as well as creating confusion, to accomplish one’s goals. A former colleague said it was his “bible.”
“All warfare is based on deception,” Sun Tzu wrote in his 5th century tract. “Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.”
There has been great speculation about the degree to which Trump and Bannon are creating chaos intentionally, as part of a strategy to confuse opponents and discredit the media, or just making things up as they go.
“There is no plan,” wrote a former colleague of Bannon’s, conservative writer Ben Shapiro. Shapiro mocked the many articles that have attributed evil genius to Bannon.
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Interesting. I look forward to more information about how Bannon’s operating in the Trump administration.
I get all my in-depth, hard-hitting news on the inner workings of government from Yahoo! News.
Standard misdirection and fake news
Shapiro is too impressed w/ his own IQ to give credit to anyone else.
An unknown senior White House Official and citing Fake News from Certainly Not News, aka, Trump's use of Obama's identification of 7 terrorist countries.
"a senior White House official confirmed to Yahoo News that Trump was displeased by the disorderly rollout of his executive order temporarily banning refugees and immigrants from seven Middle East nations, as CNN first reported."
If true, I agree with the premise. More order and less free wheeling chaos with unplanned for collateral damages.
This is about news that never happened, so it doesn't qualify as fake news! Thanks Chaguito!
Now I have a new tagline when I reply to a post about news that never happened, so it doesn't qualify as fake news.
So they go to slimy Ben Shapiro for insight? They pushed him out of BB cuz he was such a toad.
When you say “planned” you are just asking for the policy to be killed or watered down. I favor action, surprise, even with collateral damage.
More fake news. As if “a senior White House official” is gonna be running to yahoo.
LOL!
How are you doing Good Friend? Notice, I avoid old to protect both of us.
Most of the so called dire news posts this week didn’t even qualify for Fake News.
They were based on news that never happened.
It is incredible how low the mediots have sunk since Trump won twice and became president.
I actually think Trump did the right thing on the EO rollout. Why?
We all know that the WH & Admin is crawling with Dem operatives and haters. Trump team had to decide between keeping the loop tight or expanding it and getting it leaked.
I would rather be the defendant in the temporary ban case than the plaintiff.
If certain attorneys from ACLU or other pro-immigrant orgs had gotten their hands on the EO earlier in the process, the Trump WH would most likely see their policy on hold pending a hearing and the administration would be hamstrung.
Then you really are looking at a Const. Crisis, IMHO.
Bannon only joined trump’s campaign on Aug. 17, 2016.
My point: Trump was Trump, before Bannon.
If Bannon screws up, Trump will be rid of him.
I am keeping busy with various activities....but this political activity is really getting heated and interesting of course.
Technology is our friend as we age....
Gnome 3 on various Linux distributions has a nice ZOOM capability so I can do a few things....on Free Republic.
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