"Treasonous" says Bannon...Book by Wolff

[kadee79]

Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon has described the Trump Tower meeting between the president’s son and a group of Russians during the 2016 election campaign as “treasonous” and “unpatriotic”, according to an explosive new book seen by the Guardian.

Bannon, speaking to author Michael Wolff, warned that the investigation into alleged collusion with the Kremlin will focus on money laundering and predicted: “They’re going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV.”



Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, reportedly based on more than 200 interviews with the president, his inner circle and players in and around the administration, is one of the most eagerly awaited political books of the year. In it, Wolff lifts the lid on a White House lurching from crisis to crisis amid internecine warfare, with even some of Trump’s closest allies expressing contempt for him.

Bannon, who was chief executive of the Trump campaign in its final three months, then White House chief strategist for seven months before returning to the rightwing Breitbart News, is a central figure in the nasty, cutthroat drama, quoted extensively, often in salty language.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-tower-meeting-with-russians-treasonous-bannon-says-in-explosive-book/ar-BBHOUgS?li=BBnb7Kz

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

I think Bannon is pissed that he got drummed out of the White House.   They made a deal with the devil and I would not be surprised if it comes back to bite them royally in the ass.

[happyhoix]

Jan 3, 2018 11:46:45 GMT -5 NomoreDramaQ1015 said:

I think Bannon is pissed that he got drummed out of the White House.   They made a deal with the devil and I would not be surprised if it comes back to bite them royally in the ass.

I haven't quite figured out their relationship. Sometimes they compliment each other and play nice, and sometimes Bannon comes out saying shit like this.

Given that Trump values loyalty above all else, I can't imagine what he'll do. Burn up his phone tweeting, probably.

I'm curious to know what the right leaning members of this board (especially the ones enamored of Brietbart) think about Bannon's comments.

[Tennesseer]

Why Is Steve Bannon Torching the Trump Administration?

Well, well, well. So Steve Bannon, a professional intellectual and political arsonist, is setting about torching the Trump administration. There is a long tradition of former aides accusing their old employers of failing to adhere to the true faith. And there is nothing that Washington enjoys more than this spectacle. A few years back I wrote a piece for the New York Times about the genre of the dyslogistic memoir. During the Bush administration, for example, Paul O’Neill, Richard Clarke and Scott McClellan each voiced disappointment with the actions and record of their boss. Earlier efforts included Raymond Moley’s After Seven Years, which denounced what it saw as Franklin Roosevelt’s leftward lurch. Emmet John Hughes, a presidential aide and speechwriter, portrayed Dwight Eisenhower as a weakling who ruined the GOP. John F. Kennedy even worried about whether he harbored a similar turncoat in his own administration.

Now Trump knows who has the knife out for his top aides. It’s Bannon who is sometimes reputed to have his own presidential ambitions. According to a report in the Guardian, Michael Wolff, the author of a new book called Fire and Fury: Inside the White House, has Bannon on record as stating that the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting in New York between high-ranking campaign officials, including Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner, and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya was “treasonous” and “unpatriotic.” Those are fightin’ words.

Complete article here:  Why Is Steve Bannon Torching the Trump Administration?

[dezii]

I was a bit under the weather this AM so slept in..haven't even turned on the Telly yet...this is big, big news IMHO..Bannon turning on the Donald and friends...has he, our Donald, tweeted or remarked about it yet? What about comments from our Donalds supporters...anything?  ok..telly goes on now.....



Aha..wide awake..yup telly is on...CNN though actually  tuned in a bit of "Fox" too...

[had to hit remote a few times to get there but made it for about 4 minutes..]


So our Donald says Bannon has lost his mind...Don't think he was happy with Bannon attacking son in law...now Bannon goes under the bus...Would have loved to hear our Donalds screams when first informed about Bannons  comments...


As just mentioned, believe congress would love to have him testify...also what about Mueller, and believe Bannon would love to testify under oath..Donald would go nuts..IMHO.

[busymom]

Well, well, well, so the chickens are finally coming home to roost.  Interesting, because I wouldn't have imagine Bannon turning on his old boss.  Time to get out the popcorn, as Christmas has arrived late.  

[djAdvocate]

it's so weird.  a month ago, Bannon was down in AL pimping Roy Moore, and a 50-state pro-Trump project.

but he MUST have been working on THIS at the same time, right?

[Tennesseer]

Jan 3, 2018 13:28:00 GMT -5 dezii said:

I was a bit under the weather this AM so slept in..haven't even turned on the Telly yet...this is big, big news IMHO..Bannon turning on the Donald and friends...has he, our Donald, tweeted or remarked about it yet? What about comments from our Donalds supporters...anything?  ok..telly goes on now.....

No tweet yet, Dezi, as far as I know. I am pretty sure trump and Sarah Huckabee Sanders are putting together a statement for the press and it will portray Bannon as a minor player in the administration and Sanders and trump's 'Coffee Boy'.

[djAdvocate]

Jan 3, 2018 13:28:00 GMT -5 dezii said:

I was a bit under the weather this AM so slept in..haven't even turned on the Telly yet...this is big, big news IMHO..Bannon turning on the Donald and friends...has he, our Donald, tweeted or remarked about it yet? What about comments from our Donalds supporters...anything?  ok..telly goes on now.....

i agree with dezi, here.  Bannon is a significant player in the Trump saga.  to lose him is to lose an important ally.

HOWEVER......

since the GOP always hated Bannon, Trump can now aim his rudder back toward the GOP.  what he loses in Bannon he could REGAIN in the GOP.  but his base would HATE that.....so.......

this is playing out unexpectedly.  i never expected Bannon to leave, let alone burn the bridge.

[resolution]

Jan 3, 2018 13:28:00 GMT -5 dezii said:

I was a bit under the weather this AM so slept in..haven't even turned on the Telly yet...this is big, big news IMHO..Bannon turning on the Donald and friends...has he, our Donald, tweeted or remarked about it yet? What about comments from our Donalds supporters...anything?  ok..telly goes on now.....



Aha..wide awake..yup telly is on...CNN though actually  tuned in a bit of "Fox" too...

[had to hit remote a few times to get there but made it for about 4 minutes..]


So our Donald says Bannon has lost his mind...Don't think he was happy with Bannon attacking son in law...now Bannon goes under the bus...Would have loved to hear our Donalds screams when first informed about Bannons  comments...


As just mentioned, believe congress would love to have him testify...also what about Mueller, and believe Bannon would love to testify under oath..Donald would go nuts..IMHO.

Responding to the story, the White House issued a statement from Trump stating, "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."

www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/03/575295244/steve-bannon-is-quoted-saying-Trump-tower-meeting-was-treasonous

[djAdvocate]

Jan 3, 2018 13:48:40 GMT -5 resolution said:

Jan 3, 2018 13:28:00 GMT -5 dezii said:

I was a bit under the weather this AM so slept in..haven't even turned on the Telly yet...this is big, big news IMHO..Bannon turning on the Donald and friends...has he, our Donald, tweeted or remarked about it yet? What about comments from our Donalds supporters...anything?  ok..telly goes on now.....



Aha..wide awake..yup telly is on...CNN though actually  tuned in a bit of "Fox" too...

[had to hit remote a few times to get there but made it for about 4 minutes..]


So our Donald says Bannon has lost his mind...Don't think he was happy with Bannon attacking son in law...now Bannon goes under the bus...Would have loved to hear our Donalds screams when first informed about Bannons  comments...


As just mentioned, believe congress would love to have him testify...also what about Mueller, and believe Bannon would love to testify under oath..Donald would go nuts..IMHO.

Responding to the story, the White House issued a statement from Trump stating, "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."


www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/03/575295244/steve-bannon-is-quoted-saying-Trump-tower-meeting-was-treasonous

lost his mind?  no.  he is the same old Steve Bannon, imo.  but i am sure some people will find that convincing.

[Tennesseer]

"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."

Said the man who has serious mental issues.

[Value Buy]

I like it that so many now preach the wisdom of Steve Bannon now.
I guess the arch conservatives were correct when they posted Bannon articles for the last few years after all when many here claimed he was a liar.

I believe he is also writing a book so he needs the liberals in his pocket now so they will buy it.
Bannon is not the first person ever fired who wrote a tell all book.

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

Highly doubt Bannon lost his mind.   Course if I was Trump I would say the same thing and pray people believe me.

Don't get me wrong I think the guy is bat crap crazy I just don't think it has anything to do with him getting fired.  

[swamp]

Jan 3, 2018 13:58:01 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

I like it that so many now preach the wisdom of Steve Bannon now.
I guess the arch conservatives were correct when they posted Bannon articles for the last few years after all when many here claimed he was a liar.

I believe he is also writing a book so he needs the liberals in his pocket now so they will buy it.
Bannon is not the first person ever fired who wrote a tell all book.

who is preaching his wisdom?  

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

Jan 3, 2018 13:58:01 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

I like it that so many now preach the wisdom of Steve Bannon now.
I guess the arch conservatives were correct when they posted Bannon articles for the last few years after all when many here claimed he was a liar.

I believe he is also writing a book so he needs the liberals in his pocket now so they will buy it.
Bannon is not the first person ever fired who wrote a tell all book.

Who is preaching the widsom of Steve Bannon on this thread?

[swamp]

Jan 3, 2018 14:02:51 GMT -5 NomoreDramaQ1015 said:

Jan 3, 2018 13:58:01 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

I like it that so many now preach the wisdom of Steve Bannon now.
I guess the arch conservatives were correct when they posted Bannon articles for the last few years after all when many here claimed he was a liar.

I believe he is also writing a book so he needs the liberals in his pocket now so they will buy it.
Bannon is not the first person ever fired who wrote a tell all book.

Who is preaching the widsom of Steve Bannon on this thread?

I'm seeing a discussion of what he did, and why he may have done it, and what Trumps reaction may be, but I'm not seeing anyone praise him.  

[Rukh O'Rorke]

Jan 3, 2018 13:45:24 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

it's so weird.  a month ago, Bannon was down in AL pimping Roy Moore, and a 50-state pro-Trump project.

but he MUST have been working on THIS at the same time, right?

Your powers of imagination are failing.

Bannon championed moore to spite trump. If he could play it up to also not lose trumps base....all the better.

But another possibility....if trump thinks he may go down, would he be ok throwing jr under bus to save himself? Possibly join ploy he and trump?

if bannon turned on trump, he'd have more than just dirt on jr and kushner.,..

But maybe the big kahuna in vol two?

Maybe a trilogy?

[dezii]

Jan 3, 2018 13:58:01 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

I like it that so many now preach the wisdom of Steve Bannon now.
I guess the arch conservatives were correct when they posted Bannon articles for the last few years after all when many here claimed he was a liar.

I believe he is also writing a book so he needs the liberals in his pocket now so they will buy it.
Bannon is not the first person ever fired who wrote a tell all book.

I read your post as a stuttering run of words.." uh Bannon..a uh nothing person..disloyal as all get out..uh, uh...

[sheet what is going on here..bannon turning on the guy..get a hold of your self now..show a brave front value..u can do it..]

and Bannon was never really a mover and shaker in this Administration and...[yadda, yadda, yadda]"

[dondub]

No one championed Bannon. Capisce'?

[kadee79]

A link to DT's .._____


www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-blasts-bannon-after-new-book/ar-BBHPLyq?li=BBnb7Kz

[Tennesseer]

Info from 'Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House':

Melania Trump, who had been assured by her husband that he wouldn’t become president, could return to inconspicuously lunching. Losing would work out for everybody. Losing was winning.

Shortly after 8 p.m. on Election Night, when the unexpected trend—Trump might actually win—seemed confirmed, Don Jr. told a friend that his father, or DJT, as he calls him, looked as if he had seen a ghost. Melania was in tears—and not of joy.

Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Be President

[happyhoix]

Jan 3, 2018 14:55:21 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Info from 'Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House':

Melania Trump, who had been assured by her husband that he wouldn’t become president, could return to inconspicuously lunching. Losing would work out for everybody. Losing was winning.

Shortly after 8 p.m. on Election Night, when the unexpected trend—Trump might actually win—seemed confirmed, Don Jr. told a friend that his father, or DJT, as he calls him, looked as if he had seen a ghost. Melania was in tears—and not of joy.

Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Be President

Yep.

This was supposed to be the greatest marketing ploy ever - one that would lead to the launch of Trump TV.

Blew up in his face, but we're the ones suffering for it.

[happyhoix]

Jan 3, 2018 13:02:18 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Why Is Steve Bannon Torching the Trump Administration?

Well, well, well. So Steve Bannon, a professional intellectual and political arsonist, is setting about torching the Trump administration. There is a long tradition of former aides accusing their old employers of failing to adhere to the true faith. And there is nothing that Washington enjoys more than this spectacle. A few years back I wrote a piece for the New York Times about the genre of the dyslogistic memoir. During the Bush administration, for example, Paul O’Neill, Richard Clarke and Scott McClellan each voiced disappointment with the actions and record of their boss. Earlier efforts included Raymond Moley’s After Seven Years, which denounced what it saw as Franklin Roosevelt’s leftward lurch. Emmet John Hughes, a presidential aide and speechwriter, portrayed Dwight Eisenhower as a weakling who ruined the GOP. John F. Kennedy even worried about whether he harbored a similar turncoat in his own administration.

Now Trump knows who has the knife out for his top aides. It’s Bannon who is sometimes reputed to have his own presidential ambitions. According to a report in the Guardian, Michael Wolff, the author of a new book called Fire and Fury: Inside the White House, has Bannon on record as stating that the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting in New York between high-ranking campaign officials, including Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner, and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya was “treasonous” and “unpatriotic.” Those are fightin’ words.

Complete article here:  Why Is Steve Bannon Torching the Trump Administration?

When I imagine President Bannon, I see him in his black Darth Vader outfit, stomping around the White House followed by his flock of Storm Troopers, only instead of being shiny looking and smelling like ozone (as I imagine Darth Vader would) he's all rumply, with saggy britches and smelling like beer and cheeto dust.

Let's hope we never actually experience that....

[Rukh O'Rorke]

Jan 3, 2018 15:14:38 GMT -5 happyhoix said:

Jan 3, 2018 13:02:18 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Why Is Steve Bannon Torching the Trump Administration?

Well, well, well. So Steve Bannon, a professional intellectual and political arsonist, is setting about torching the Trump administration. There is a long tradition of former aides accusing their old employers of failing to adhere to the true faith. And there is nothing that Washington enjoys more than this spectacle. A few years back I wrote a piece for the New York Times about the genre of the dyslogistic memoir. During the Bush administration, for example, Paul O’Neill, Richard Clarke and Scott McClellan each voiced disappointment with the actions and record of their boss. Earlier efforts included Raymond Moley’s After Seven Years, which denounced what it saw as Franklin Roosevelt’s leftward lurch. Emmet John Hughes, a presidential aide and speechwriter, portrayed Dwight Eisenhower as a weakling who ruined the GOP. John F. Kennedy even worried about whether he harbored a similar turncoat in his own administration.

Now Trump knows who has the knife out for his top aides. It’s Bannon who is sometimes reputed to have his own presidential ambitions. According to a report in the Guardian, Michael Wolff, the author of a new book called Fire and Fury: Inside the White House, has Bannon on record as stating that the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting in New York between high-ranking campaign officials, including Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner, and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya was “treasonous” and “unpatriotic.” Those are fightin’ words.

Complete article here:  Why Is Steve Bannon Torching the Trump Administration?

When I imagine President Bannon, I see him in his black Darth Vader outfit, stomping around the White House followed by his flock of Storm Troopers, only instead of being shiny looking and smelling like ozone (as I imagine Darth Vader would) he's all rumply, with saggy britches and smelling like beer and cheeto dust.

Let's hope we never actually experience that....

Spaceballs revamped?

[weltschmerz]

Jan 3, 2018 13:58:01 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

I like it that so many now preach the wisdom of Steve Bannon now.
I guess the arch conservatives were correct when they posted Bannon articles for the last few years after all when many here claimed he was a liar.

I believe he is also writing a book so he needs the liberals in his pocket now so they will buy it.
Bannon is not the first person ever fired who wrote a tell all book.

Who the hell is preaching his wisdom?  
Just admit you pulled that out of your nether regions.

[steff]

[kadee79]

I got this some other place so no link, but from the current press sec......

From press secretary Sarah Sanders:



Statement from the President of the United States



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. Steve was a staffer who worked for me after I had already won the nomination by defeating seventeen candidates, often described as the most talented field ever assembled in the Republican party.



Now that he is on his own, Steve is learning that winning isn’t as easy as I make it look. Steve had very little to do with our historic victory, which was delivered by the forgotten men and women of this country. Yet Steve had everything to do with the loss of a Senate seat in Alabama held for more than thirty years by Republicans. Steve doesn’t represent my base—he’s only in it for himself.



Steve pretends to be at war with the media, which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at the White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was. It is the only thing he does well. Steve was rarely in a one-on-one meeting with me and only pretends to have had influence to fool a few people with no access and no clue, whom he helped write phony books.



We have many great Republican members of Congress and candidates who are very supportive of the Make America Great Again agenda. Like me, they love the United States of America and are helping to finally take our country back and build it up, rather than simply seeking to burn it all down.

And I can't find it on the net yet either, I did look.

[bean29]

So if someone inside the white house was a source for the FISA Warrant or FBI who do you think it might have been?

Reince Preibus? Steve Bannon? or ?. I really don't think it was Bannon, but then again, who knows. Preibus always struck me as not one to look the other way on Treason. He is a party loyalist, but I would not have expected him to get in bed with the Russians.

[Rob Base 2.0]

so, do u find validity to his "treason" comment?

if u already thought (before this news broke) there was treason / collusion, do Bannon's comments make the treason case / thought process stronger, weaker, or the same?