Posted on 06/01/2018 8:00:02 PM PDT by Bratch
Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon publicly defended Attorney General Jeff Sessions from the attacks he’s facing from President Trump.
Trump has privately and publicly blasted Sessions’ decision to recuse himself in the federal probe into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, most recently on Wednesday, writing on Twitter he wishes he’d chosen someone other than Sessions.
But the President is “wrong,” Bannon told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in an interview set to air Sunday.
Trump pressured Sessions on at least four separate occasions last year to take back control of the Russia investigation, but Session refused, Axios reported.
Sessions’s decision to recuse himself from the Russia probe “is not even an issue,” and that Trump should not dwell on the matter, the former Breitbart News chief argued.
“If you look at what Jeff Sessions has done on immigration on migration and all the key issues at the Justice Department, I think that Sessions has personally done an excellent job.”
Bannon added that anyone associated with the Trump campaign, including former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani or former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, would have also recused themselves from the Russia investigation.
The Steve Bannon Special Interview
Last July, after Trump characterized Sessions “beleaguered” and threatened to fire him, Bannon reportedly led the effort to save the attorney general’s job while he was still at the White House, warning that his dismissal would exacerbate the Russia investigation.
Bannon left his White House post last August, but he and Trump appeared to have reached a breaking point in January after Bannon was quoted disparaging the president’s children, asserting that Donald Trump Jr. had been “treasonous” in meeting with Russians and calling Ivanka Trump “dumb as a brick” in Michael Wolff’s book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.
Trump responded to the controversy, with a statement issued by the White House.
“Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my presidency,” Trump said. “When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind.”
The full interview will air on CNN on Sunday.
Keeping Comey would have been an immense mistake. He was burying all the evidence and supporting the plotters. Since he went, truth is coming out, ever so slowly. If Bannon's still upset about that, after all that's come out, then he's a self important and thin skinned fool that needed to go too.
Does FNN mean Fable News Network? If so, that’s pretty good.
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Well, give Trump credit.
Bannon is shooting his mouth off from political exile.
Thank goodness.
Same here. I was also wrong about Trey Gowdy.
I’m very disappointed that Raheem Kassam, the good host at Breitbart, was shown the door. Now I’m even more disappointed that he’s been around in Europe with Bannon, if Bannon has become a turncoat.
Agree—keeping Comey on at the FBI would have been a disaster. But that’s what Bannon advised. Now Bannon sees Mueller through the lens of, ‘I told you so.’ I.e.: Bannon has publicly blamed Trump for Mueller, bc if Trump had realized how much smarter Bannon is compared to Kushner, there’d be no witch hunt.
It’s a toxic stew. Bannon is a gossipy backstabber with a massive ax to grind. I can’t believe some still support him.
You know folks, in three years people won’t remember this moment.
Bannon will say two or three things and folks on the right will swoon again. Some of us will urge caution. Then they’ll likely trust Bannon and not us, and think we’re just bitter kooks.
We won’t remember the exact reason either, but we’ll be gun shy of Bannon as it should be.
This is why I don’t trust Newt or Ted.
They crossed the Rubicon for me at critical times.
Keep them at an arms length, and a-okay with me.
Bannon, you’re useless, at least to the Right.
Sloppy sloppy Steve.
Something just doesn’t make sense here.
Bannon’s I guess feels he has someone’s ear but he ain’t got mine
He wasn’t elected and now his company has tanked and is being investigated
He’s not a badger of any sort just a pathetic washed up wanna be
>>I was also wrong about Trey Gowdy.
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President Trump has an amazing way about him, an ability to draw the evil out and up to the surface for all who have eyes to see.
He’s a pot stirrer
Fake News Network
What he actually said doesn’t sound that bad.
Why does anyone want to interview this irrelevant slob?
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Because he has something bad to say about Trump.
Trump called him out on leaking. He made those first several months hell for Trump & the administration.
Sessions not only damaged the President’s chances of appointing someone more in line with] his vision but Sessions left behind a safe Senate seat that is now in the hands of a democrat.
While we may admire Jeff Sessions as an Alabaman, a US Senator, a devoted Christian, we must acknowledge that this arrangement has not worked well in general. Someone else could have gotten to the bottom of all the current deep state scandals without having to sidestep anything that smacked of investigating the false Russian collusion.
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