Posted on 10/20/2017 2:35:30 AM PDT by markomalley
Laura Ingraham was credited on Thursday night by both presidential aide Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump’s former White House strategist, for helping to guide the national populist movement that rallied around Trump.
Bannon and Miller made their remarks at the “Breitbart embassy,” the old Washington townhouse on Capitol Hill where many Breitbart staffers work. Ingraham was there to promote her new book, “Billionaire at the Barricades: The Populist Revolution from Reagan to Trump,” which details the rise of the populist conservative movement from President Ronald Reagan to Trump.
Speaking to about 150 people in the slim townhouse suite, Bannon wore a big smile, three shirts and a blazer when he introduced Ingraham, a longtime friend he said helped him plot Brexit and an economic nationalist agenda that includes better trade deals and a crackdown on illegal immigration.
Bannon credited Ingraham with bringing together people who could articulate a case on the conservative side and make an impact during the Republican primary. Ingraham had attended some of the dinners where Bannon met with then-U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) and an even younger Miller to discuss illegal immigration and bad trade policy.
Sessions and Miller would go on with Ingraham to advise Trump on his insurgent 2016 presidential campaign. Bannon said that's why he invited Ingraham to talk about her book at the Breitbart townhouse.
"We just thought it was appropriate given everything that has happened in this house for the launch of this movement, that the definitive real history of the populist movement since President Reagan -- it's amazing," said Bannon, gesturing to Ingraham. "There really hasn't been a history of populism and nationalism until (Ingraham) conceived of the idea with Adam Bellow ... This book is the definitive book."
Bannon said Ingraham's talent was key to the 2016 win and the Trump agenda. He noted that Ingraham, the editor-in-chief of LifeZette, is soon starting her own show on Fox News, "The Ingraham Angle," on Oct. 30, where she'll take over the 10 p.m. slot. Ingraham also hosts "The Laura Ingraham Show" on radio.
"I don't know how you do it all," said Bannon, crediting Ingraham with keeping the populist effort alive. "You're an extraordinary talent. The country, President Trump and our movement would not be here today if you were not the queen of it."
Ingraham criticized former President George W. Bush, who said on Thursday that bigotry had become emboldened of late. Bush was suggesting Trump was responsible, said Ingraham.
"Sadly, George W. Bush launched a speech which was an attack on populism, this movement and Donald Trump," said Ingraham. "I think it's sad that a man who left office with a 29 percent approval rating would be so willingly used by the current media to attack a sitting president. When we see a run-up in the stock market, consumer confidence up, unemployment at a low we haven't seen since 1974 -- this is the day that George W. Bush decided to slap this movement in the face."
Ingraham quoted Bannon, saying Bush's remark shows the Establishment "will not give up without a fight."
Ingraham said she is familiar with nervous Establishment types like Bush: The first time she came to Washington in April 1982, driving with fellow student Dinesh D'Souza from Dartmouth College, was to visit Reagan adviser Pat Buchanan, who served on the board of her college newspaper. Buchanan told her he would stay on the board despite the fact some Republicans were dropping off as advisers because the paper, the Dartmouth Review, was deemed too controversial.
Buchanan stayed with the Dartmouth Review along with R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. of The American Spectator, also a scrappy conservative.
"That was literally my first experience" with nervous Establishment types, she joked. The newspaper succeeded in getting the ROTC brought back to campus.
Ingraham went on to work for Bill Bennett in the Reagan administration, get her law degree, start her radio show, and become a frequent guest on Fox News.
Miller thanked Ingraham for giving hope to millions of Americans hurt by bad economic policy.
Ingraham, in addition to being the founder and editor-in-chief of LifeZette, has written several New York Times best-sellers, including "Of Thee I Zing" and "Power to the People." She has hosted "The Laura Ingraham Show" since 2001, becoming the most-listened-to female radio talk-show host in the nation.
Ingraham will begin hosting "The Ingraham Angle" on Fox News on October 30. The show will air every weekday night at 10 p.m. EST.
Bush’s wife and daughters are liberals, so it isn’t shocking that he is as well.
With this speech, Bush 43, put his whole family on the wrong side of history.
Not a peep out of him for eight years and now this speech! He, a member of the GOPE, insulted the base. I don’t want to hear one more word from him ever.
Globalism = Communism = Islamicism
All have same totalitarian goals.
Bush morphed into an azzhat.That is,why his Sportsman for Bush bumper sticker ended up in my trash can.
I was one of their most enthusiastic supporters. When I realized that they had lost their way, I immediately withdrew my support.
George's latest remarks reveal how far they have drifted into the Darkness.
Oh so true
The Bush clan and Billary, Inc. have become very chummy; yes we know George, you didn’t have to make anti-Trump remarks to tell us that.
It’s a big club and you’re not in it.
Yep! Remember that? Bush calling brave Patriots patrolling the border Vigilantes.. That really ticked me off. It showed us who he really was.
I wonder how many NFL owners are friends with the Bushes?
Bush is not a “good American”, because his loyalties lie elsewhere.
He desires a one world corporate multinationalist global government. And he sees authoritarianism as the means to bring this about.
He respects and is loyal to internationalist organizations whose interests are far removed from America’s interests.
He is a creature of the “Military-Industrial-Intelligence-Police Complex”. And his wholly anti-American Patriot Act, used almost exclusively against Americans with zero connection to terrorism, is an abomination that will haunt our nation for decades until it is finally abolished.
He also joined with a like minded peer, President Vincente Fox of Mexico, to bring about the Plan Puebla Panama. Which could be described as a ruinous effort to turn the Americas into a European Union style monstrosity.
Its biggest result was the ethnic cleansing of southern Mexico, resulting in unprecedented waves of illegal aliens coming to the US.
The nasty legacy of both him and his father should rightfully end up in the garbage disposal. And those multinational corporations that signed on to it need to be broken up.
In his last few public appearances Bush has not seemed quite right
Perhaps he has been raiding Laura’s stash of cooking sherry or perhaps it’s early onset Alzheimer’s
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I voted for the lying creep twice. Of course, the other side was just as bad. At least they were more honest about their evil intent.
Bush hasn't been "right" for a long time. Remember, he couldn't even bring himself to vote for his party's nominee for president (and his daddy voted for the other party's nominee).
We could go through and litigate his presidency, but the previous matter should be enough in of itself.
Ronald Magnus had Herbert Walker pegged. He only selected him VP to ensure the votes to win the election. He should have dumped HW the second time around.
Maybe Ronald was dealing with the deep state also?
When El Presedente Boosh called us vigilantes is when I stopped sending my $$$ to anything RNC/Bush related. I DID send them a few Bush Mexican Nada pesos.
Shut up and paint Dubya!
With the Bush chummy relationship with Clintons, I am coming to believe that Bush senior was a Cabal plant to start within from the Intelligence community that we are still dealing with today.
With GWB in office they didn’t go after him due to Bush Senior, and knew they could keep the new world order alive with Barry O, and were salivating that Hilly would assume the chair.
Donald comes along and upsets all, so now all the snakes come out to attack to preserve their gravy train, ability to control the agenda.
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