Posted on 01/16/2018 9:07:04 AM PST by janetjanet998
WASHINGTON — Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump’s former chief strategist, was subpoenaed last week by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, to testify before a grand jury as part of the investigation into possible links between Mr. Trump’s associates and Russia, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.
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I never claimed to know the Mercers. But what I said was true. They formerly backed Bannon, but now they’ve cut him off. Stephen Miller went on Jake Tapper’s show and stated that there is no way back for Bannon. Hogan Gidley, speaking for Trump, said the exact same thing—and also reiterated Trump’s assessment that Bannon has “lost it,” and, “is in it only for himself.”
The point being, the Mercers are not alone. And there will be no revolution, bc Bannon is a 100x better at burning bridges than at rallying the troops.
I agree there will be no revolution. But Mercers also pulled their funding from Milo because he’s “controversial,” making my point. They want nice and easy change. Non controversial change.
I don’t care what Miller said. We’ve seen Trump take back all sorts of people, including Lindsey Grahamnesty, when they make proper amends.
Regardless, Bannon will scorch the committees & Mulehead and will not in any way harm DT or any member of his family, regardless of what Wolff lied about. He hates the Deep State.
If I were bannon I would contest the ligitmatcy of Muller’s authorty having violated the law in his appointment.
It’s not at all clear he can just investigate whom ever he wants with no spesficly crime.
I would contend that not only is this power prohbited by the law but is inheirly dangerous. Using the example that if such power exist the president could appoint people to go after all his political enemies.
Bannon has already done massive damage to Trump. Why do you think Miller and Trump’s spokesperson said there was no way back for Bannon? It’s Because this is not a minor tiff; it’s a fundamental betrayal. I.e.: it has been established that Bannon was Wolff’s entre into the WH. Bannon colluded with the Trump-hating liar on several levels. Nor did Bannon quickly deny the worst of Wolff’s quotes. Bannon took his sweet time, allowing the damage to maximize before weakly claiming he’d been misrepresented.
Wolff could never in a million years have simply waltzed into the WH. Even a press pass, assuming he could have gotten one, would have been very limiting. But Bannon gifted Wolff with a WH visitor’s pass. That gave Wolff the freedom he needed to knife Trump up close and personal.
There’s no getting around it; Bannon is the one directly responsible for enabling Wolff to write his hit piece. That is a fact, and it’s why this ouster is different. After Trump falls out with Graham, Graham is still a Senator whose support and votes Trump needs. Bannon is not a Senator. He doesn’t have the power his supporters imagine he does. (That became clear in Alabama.) Bannon is just a guy with a psychologically unbalanced hatred of Kushner. He made a very nasty bed, and now he has to sleep in it.
As for Milo, flaming gay people are not stable. You may have stuck with Milo after he spoke of homosexual adult males being intimately involved with underage boys, but many did not. There’s nothing remotely conservative about promoting that ‘lifestyle.’ It’s not the Mercers fault that Milo flamed out. Blame it on the unhealthy mental condition that comprises homosexuality. Such blame would not be misplaced.
Mueller won’t finish until after the November election. He’s waiting to see if the democrats gain the house so that they can start impeachment. If the House doesn’t flip, then he’ll end his investigation.
FYI, Bannon is apparently a contact if not actual friend of LS. He posted just the other day that he spoke to Bannon while Bannon was in China.
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3597351/posts?page=148#148
Possibly there talking to his handlers? Wonder what a call to China even costs?
https://www.ft.com/content/5cdedd84-9f0c-11e7-8cd4-932067fbf946
Steve Bannon held secret meeting in China
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/4/drudge-exposes-bannons-new-benefactor/
Drudge exposes Bannon’s new benefactor
Thanks for the post and the links. At this point, idk why even people who know Bannon are still cheerleading for him. If you take away all the disputed quotes, Bannon has still been a toxic presence of gargantuan proportions in Trump’s inner circle. He’s been a wrecking ball of which only Trump-haters could approve.
The kindest conclusion to draw re Bannon is that he has issues. Some say substance abuse and others claim he’s bipolar. My personal theory is that he let hatred for Kushner warp his thinking out of anything approaching decency. It seems the most likely.
It will be interesting to see how Bannon harms Trump via Mueller. No, I don’t wonder if he will. I only wonder how he will.
Bannon in China making a movie FOR the Chinese guy, Kwok, who is NOT his “benefactor” but his employer. It is a movie about the rise of China.
Great summary I think, as he appears to be slightly derranged and not completely in control of himself. Thanks!
You’re welcome. Agree that something’s not quite right with Bannon. I’ll be glad when he’s out of the spotlight. Nobody ever knows what a loose cannon will hit next.
You’ll just be glad that Bannon’s eloquent voice in speaking about economic nationalism is silent now.
I’m glad Bannon is no longer in the WH bc the worst, most destructive leaks stopped when he left. I’m also glad Bannon is no longer in a position to hand out WH Visitor’s Passes to the likes of Wolff. The damage Bannon did will continue to undermine the Trump presidency for some time to come.
Hopefully the tenor at Breitbart will improve as well. With Bannon at the helm, there was no toxic, unsourced gossip story about Trump’s family too nasty for Breitbart to feature. The comments sections had become an open sewer of Never-Trumpism. That’s likely to persist for a while; those posters aren’t going to just hang up their spurs overnight.
What about economic nationalism? Are you glad it’s most prominent spokesman is gone? A simple yes or no will do.
Great summary. I’m not ashamed to admit I never even knew who he was until he joined Trump’s campaign, since Rush Limbaugh has admitted the same thing. And he seemed to be a media sensation more than anything, because they like to use him as a wide brush to paint all conservatives as white supremists. Hopefully he will soon slip back into the obscurity from which he came, but not if he can help it I’m sure.
I’ve tried to explain this to you before. Bannon actually *hurt/harmed* economical nationalism. When you espouse a cause, and then out yourself as a backstabber and become a pariah, the cause you backed also suffers.
I wish Bannon were a more solid, trustworthy and even-keeled person. But he’s not and that’s a shame.
As to your yes or no question, I’ve answered it directly to you previously. If you ignored the answer, that was your choice. It doesn’t obligate me to repeat it.
Please refresh my memory.
I daresay you and Rush are not alone. Bannon was hardly a household name pre-Trump administration.
I followed Bannon’s career bc I had been very interested in Andrew Breitbart. Bannon was big on promoting personalities, as a way of running Breitbart. He first tried it with some guy named Brandon Darby, who fizzled like a dud. Next Bannon hyped the flaming gay guy, Milo Yiannopoulus. He had more success with him, until the recording surfaced of Milo speaking well of man-boy homosexual relationships.
I didn’t care for Bannon’s pro-homosexual leanings. I caught a lot of flak for it at the time. But a person without a stable moral foundation will not himself be stable, and Bannon bore this out.
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