President Trump reportedly suspects that his chief strategist Stephen Bannon is behind some White House leaks about fellow staffers, according to a new report by Axios.
Sources told Axios that West Wing staff believe Bannon was behind leaks about national security adviser H.R. McMaster and that Bannon's job could be in danger.
According to the report, Trump has been "irritated" with Bannon following a series of Breitbart reports targeting McMaster. Bannon was formerly the executive chairman of Breitbart.
There is no clear connection, however, linking Bannon to such reports.
Trump has long decried leaks of sensitive information to media, such as specifics of his Oval Office conversations with world leaders earlier this year, as well as details surrounding the palace intrigue around the White House.
Come on, we know Bannon's the leaker.
After all if somebody else was leaking to Breibart Bannon would have forced them to give him the name and he would have outed that person a long time ago.
Bad timing if you think about it.
I mean just imagine how much fun Trump and Bannon could have had bonding over the video of that alt-right dude plowing through a crowd of liberal snowflakes.
But nope, Bannon thought it was more important to repeatedly stab McMaster in the back than to celebrate a murderous rampage by an alt-right racist. (Which you know they totally would have if the circumstances were different.)
Okay so if Bannon goes how many would that make?
Lewandowski, Flynn, Manafort, Priebus, and now if Bannon goes that is almost all of Trump's original team members kicked to the curb.
All that will remain from the original group will be family members and Jeff Sessions. And face it, Sessions is living on borrowed time.
I now picture Donald Trump wandering through the White House alone at night becoming increasingly isolated and increasingly suspicious of everybody who tries to get close to him.
Bannon should never have been given a position of authority in the White House. IF he's given the boot, he will still be advising Trump in an "unofficial " capacity. Trump is afraid Bannon will turn Brietbart and all it's racist supporters against him. Trumps a fucking coward.
ReplyDeleteTrump would leak but he has Bannon to do that. Bannon may have gone rogue and leaked when Trump didn't want him to leak.
DeleteIf he will remove Bannon from his position, it may just be to shuffle him to a made up job in the White House. Some kind of punishment.
Bannon leaving will be like Trump losing both arms, may be legs. I can't see the loss of Bannon having a good effect for Trump. Others may love it. Are they ready to deal with a Bannonless Trump presidency?
He'll probably become the Fuhrer for the crowd that got its taste of murder on Saturday.
DeleteJohn Oliver Deconstructs Trump's Non-Response To Charlottesville
Deletehttp://crooksandliars.com/2017/08/john-oliver-deconstructs-trumps-non
"I now picture Donald Trump wandering through the White House alone at night becoming increasingly isolated and increasingly suspicious of everybody who tries to get close to him."
ReplyDeleteSounds just like Nixon during Watergate. Nixon was drinking and then talking to the pictures on the wall.
Trump doesn't even have to be drunk to talk to the pictures on the wall, although I suspect he spends a good part of each day in front of his special Electoral College posters.."see, I WON!" What a stupid stupid man.
DeleteIs that poster Electoral College poster next to the Inauguration Mirror that he talks to every day, "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who had the largest Inauguration Crowd of them all?" " You did, oh suave, Orange One, with the helmet hair and Pee-Pee fetish"
DeleteOther reporters, including Anderson Cooper, have stated that Kellyanne Conway is a notorious off-the-record White House source.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't put anything past Pence either, who is just itching to get his feet into the Oval Office permanently.
I've long suspected Pence of being a leaker. He can't wait to step in.
DeleteYep, Preibus and Spencer are both gone yet the leaks continue (thankfully). So I'd place a bet that both Conway AND Pence are leakers. After all, both of them travel with the President and are included in many or most meetings.
DeleteWeb hosting company evicts white supremacist “news site” after Charlottesville attack
ReplyDeletehttp://www.palmerreport.com/politics/webhost-evicts-white-supremacist-site/4308/
Melania Trump copying Michelle Obama again
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/melania-trump-accused-of-copying-michelle-obama-again/
“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
ReplyDelete― Joseph Heller, Catch-22
‘What a pathetic, sniveling little nano-president’: Morning Joe panel lights up Trump’s refusal to disavow Nazis
ReplyDelete...New York Times reporter Frank Bruni went on to say that Trump is the leader of the Republican Party, and as a result he has to set the standard.
“If we’re trying to look for some silver lining here,” Bruni continued, “something good to come out of it, he’s making many Republicans who were mealy-mouth on this or came out and made their principles clear. He’s making them say very sharp things they haven’t said before. When we’re done with Donald Trump, and I look forward to that day, these statements will live on.”
He went on to say that it is strange to see the president be so soft on attacks after so many times before he’s gone after people. In fact, they brought up the show hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, who were off Monday, but who Trump has been merciless in going after. If Trump can go after morning political talk show hosts, the panel wondered why Trump can’t disavow Nazis.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/what-a-pathetic-sniffling-little-nano-president-morning-joe-panel-lights-up-trumps-refusal-to-disavow-nazis/
Well, maybe he can't go after the Nazi's because he knows they like and support him -- just as he can't go after Putin. If they turned on him, it might be a different matter. But, so far they are still loving him.
DeleteWho Trump does not attack -- even when he gets in trouble for not doing so -- says a lot about who he supports and approves of.
DeleteWho's going to try to get close to him? Nobody.
ReplyDeleteI think the whole entire don johns outhouse is full of chit and they should all resign immediately and deal with their extreme legal problems and personal health problems at home.
ReplyDeleteDonald Trump has had time to study the Charlottesville terrorism. He and Bannon can bang heads and he will know all Bannon needs him to know.
ReplyDeleteIt's been said that it was Miller and Bannon that worked on Trump's first public comments from Bedminister. McMaster still seemed to be on another page. I don't know if that has changed, Bannon is still there last I knew.
We will be hearing something today. We'll see how strong and clear.
Pence is talking from Venezuela. He is there to show our compassion...
Pence Latin American trip: Cartagena and Bogota, Colombia; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Santiago, Chile; and Panama City, Panama.
DeletePence is not in Venezuela.
Talking Venezuela but not there.
“Do you condemn the actions of neo Nazis? Do you condemn the actions of white supremacists?”
ReplyDeleteTrump has shot himself in the foot and plunged himself into crisis mode because he won’t speak out against neo-Nazis. The President Of The United States ignored the easiest lay up in all of politics. All Trump had to do was walk over to reporters and say that there is no place in America for neo-Nazis and white supremacists. They do not represent America, and he does not want their support.
Calling racists bad is the easiest part of the job of being president. It is impossible to screw up unless you are a racist yourself and share the beliefs of the neo-Nazis and white supremacists.
Trump is siding with the Nazis, and it doesn’t matter what he says in the future because what he isn’t saying now is encouraging racial violence in the United States.
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/08/14/trump-ignores-questions-reporters-condemning-actions-neo-nazis.html
It is unbelievable how Pence can say Trump said things he did not say to provide cover for the Trump administration. I guess it is calculated that anyone not paying attention this past weekend will simply accept the president called out neo nazis, KKK , supremacists and nationalists. From campaign to present Trump is sold as someone he is not which empowers the lowest of his base tolerating their violence by false equivalencies.
DeleteBannon has an agenda Alt Right and was chosen by Trump.
Anything to distract from Russia! Collateral damage.
DeleteIt has your mind off Russia.
Mission accomplished? Shrug.
“Bannonbart.”
ReplyDeletehttp://shareblue.com/bannonbart-ex-white-house-comms-chief-attests-to-grip-of-white-supremacy-over-trump/
“Enemies.” New Trump campaign ad targets candlelight vigil for victims of Muslim ban
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Red state resistance has a message for Trump and his base: We’re going to defeat you
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...The smear campaign is seen as being orchestrated from inside the White House by chief Trump strategist Steve Bannon, who last year bragged that he had turned Breitbart into a “platform” for the white nationalists of the alt-right. The ugly crusade against McMaster is just the latest example of Trump’s radical-right allies attacking distinguished members of the U.S. military.
ReplyDeleteWhite nationalists inside Trump’s camp reportedly don’t trust McMaster, whom they view as a “globalist” who is soft on Islamic terrorism. By so forcefully denouncing homegrown, right-wing terror over the weekend, McMaster likely only sharpened the alt-right anger directed at him.
http://shareblue.com/trump-allies-smear-his-own-silver-star-general-after-he-denounced-white-supremacy/
Donald Trump won't speak out on white supremacist terror, but he was quick to attack a black CEO who resigned from a presidential advisory council in protest of Trump's racist appeasement.
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VP Pence says US won’t stand by as Venezuela ‘crumbles’
ReplyDeletehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/in-colombia-pence-tries-to-strike-balance-on-venezuela/2017/08/13/ee344b12-808e-11e7-9e7a-20fa8d7a0db6_story.html?utm_term=.f185d65d70de
The country needs food, necessities and medical for the people. Also refugees/immigrants will need to transition. Hopefully the US will help them and prevent more illegal trafficking of humans. It will make Trump look good to accept immigrants and not be so anti of Latin Americans. He probably has many jobs in his many hotels and luxury golf courses across the country.
"I wonder how many protesters I could run over."
ReplyDelete...In March, in response to Native Americans demonstrating against Trump’s support for the Dakota Access Pipeline, Daily Caller editor Katie Frates tweeted, and then deleted, “I wonder how many #NativeNationsRise #NoDAPL protestors I could run over before I got arrested #getoutofmyway”.
...The North Carolina House of Representatives proposed two bills targeting protestors in roads — one that would declare them guilty of a new crime called “economic terrorism” and one that would strip protestors of the right to sue drivers who hit them.
Similar bills banning protestors injured by cars from suing drivers were proposed by Republicans in Tennessee and North Dakota.
Another GOP bill in Indiana, while it did not explicitly relax penalties on hitting pedestrians, directed police to use “any means necessary” to break up protests in roads, which would appear to encourage violence. The bill’s sponsor, State Sen. Tim Jones, claimed protestors in roads are a lethal menace because they prevent emergency vehicles reaching people in time, but when pressed could not name one example of that happening.
Dangerous rhetoric leads to dangerous outcomes. Republicans should not be surprised, after repeatedly demonizing and denying the rights of protestors in roads, that the end result was violence.
http://shareblue.com/i-wonder-how-many-protesters-i-could-run-over-gop-has-openly-advocated-road-violence/
Fargo North Dakota>
Deletehttp://www.inforum.com/opinion/letters/4311880-letter-family-denounces-teffts-racist-rhetoric-and-actions
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/you-will-have-to-shovel-our-bodies-into-the-oven-too-father-of-charlottesville-neo-nazi-disowns-him/
"“It was the silence of good people that allowed the Nazis to flourish the first time around, and it is the silence of good people that is allowing them to flourish now,” he wrote.
He went on to say that his son is no longer welcome in their home or at family gatherings until he renounces the hate. "
"his son joked>“The thing about US fascists is, it’s not that we don’t believe in freedom of speech. You can say whatever you want. We’ll just throw you in an oven,”
"Peter’s nephew also denounced him,>
"“In brief, we reject him wholly – both him personally as a vile person who has HIMSELF made violent threats against our family, and also his hideous ideology, which we abhor,” his nephew Jacob Scott said. “We are all bleeding-heart liberals who believe in the fundamental equality of all human beings.”"“Peter is a maniac, who has turned away from all of us and gone down some insane internet rabbit-hole, and turned into a crazy nazi. He scares us all, we don’t feel safe around him"
Then this>
" to accuse the media of being a “Lynch MOB” {doing their JOB} saying that the arrest and trial of Fields Jr. was a “lynching.”
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/you-guys-are-a-lynch-mob-white-supremacists-attack-radical-left-outside-courthouse-as-fields-jr-is-arraigned/
Trump is so hot under the collar these days scientists are about to add him as a contributor to climate change. His Merck meltdown is too crazy for most psych patients.
ReplyDeleteThe bare-knuckle campaign to remove National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster from the White House is about to get much uglier.
ReplyDeleteOutside forces opposed to McMaster are going to allege he has a drinking problem, according to sources outside the Trump administration familiar with the anti-McMaster campaign. The controversial nationalist Mike Cernovich, who has an inside track on the anti-McMaster campaign, teased the alcohol attack in an Internet video with Alex Jones of the website Infowars. Anti-McMaster forces believe this attack will harm his standing with the president, who is a teetotaler.
https://www.axios.com/anti-mcmaster-campaign-is-about-to-get-uglier-2472606148.html
All part of the 'GAME of Ri$k' & TRUE. Winning!
Delete.
ReplyDeleteI was surprised that Trump didn't initially talk more about the troopers loss of life, that has been a signature thing for him. Suddenly he doesn't expound on troopers, first responders of Charlottesville.
What's with that? Now it is said he is going to make up for his mistakes.
He can't talk about the troopers without also talking about Heyer. He can't go there.
DeleteFormer Trump aide says he’ll ‘blow’ McMaster and Drudge ‘the f*ck up’ if Steve Bannon is fired
ReplyDelete...McMaster, Trump’s national security adviser, is at the center of a rift within the administration that could lead to Bannon’s removal, according to a report Saturday by Axios. Meanwhile, Drudge, a former friend of Bannon, has published a series of negative stories about Trump’s chief strategist on his conservative news site Drudge Report.
“Matt should go back into his hobble hole in Miami and listen to techno,” Sam Nunberg, a longtime Trump aide and an early adviser to his presidential campaign, said in an interview with The Daily Caller published Sunday. “Matt should understand that people like me can blow him the fook up. F-o-o-k, Conor McGregor. Blow him the fook up [sic].” (Irish UFC fighter Conor McGregor pronounces “fuck” as “fook.”)
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/former-trump-aide-says-hell-blow-mcmaster-and-drudge-the-fck-up-if-steve-bannon-is-fired/
White terrorist attempts to detonate car bomb near 1995 Oklahoma City bombing memorial
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/man-attempts-to-detonate-car-bomb-near-1995-oklahoma-city-bombing-memorial/
ReplyDeleteHere’s A Reminder That The Hatred We Saw In Charlottesville Is Everywhere
There are 917 hate groups currently operating across the U.S., according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/charlottesville-hate-groups_us_5991b97ee4b0909642989772?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
The Year in Hate and Extremism
ReplyDeleteThe radical right was more successful in entering the political mainstream last year than in half a century. How did it happen?
After half a century of being increasingly relegated to the margins of society, the radical right entered the political mainstream last year in a way that had seemed virtually unimaginable since George Wallace ran for president in 1968.
A surge in right-wing populism, stemming from the long-unfolding effects of globalization and the movements of capital and labor that it spawned, brought a man many considered to be a racist, misogynist and xenophobe into the most powerful political office in the world. Donald Trump’s election as president mirrored similar currents in Europe, where globalization energized an array of extreme-right political movements and the United Kingdom’s decision to quit the European Union.
Trump’s run for office electrified the radical right, which saw in him a champion of the idea that America is fundamentally a white man’s country.
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2017/year-hate-and-extremism
Russia: if your happy and you know it, clap your hands. Clap clap. Shrug.
DeleteLol 9:07
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ReplyDeleteHow What Happened Here In Charlottesville Was Inevitable
The college town is reeling from violence and death and experts say the next white nationalist rally could be worse.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/charlottesville-was-inevitable-white-nationalist-rally_us_59907756e4b090964297ba58?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
"Eli Mosley is typical of the “alt-right” movement ― the latest incarnation of organized racism in America ― which has grown exponentially larger since Donald Trump announced his run for the White House. He’s young and media-savvy and knew how to bring thousands of white supremacists together for Saturday’s “Unite The Right” rally.
DeleteYears ago people like Mosley saw themselves as a fringe group in American politics. Now, under Trump, they feel like their views are gaining momentum, even becoming mainstream, they say."
(Eli Mosley, the coward that ran away from his own press conference. Because all of these racists are cowards at heart.)
"With a president of the United States not condemning Nazism, and after over a year of signaling his support for white nationalism, experts are deeply concerned that we’re in store for political violence even worse than the kind that visited Charlottesville."
"In a statement Sunday the Anti-Defamation League spelled out what that action could be. The group called on Trump to “terminate all staff” with any ties to white nationalists, likely referring to prominent White House advisers Steve Bannon, Steven Miller, and Sebastian Gorka, all of whom are linked to racist, fringe figures and groups.
“This is a moment that demands moral leadership,” ADL President Jonathan Greenblatt said in a statement. “President Trump should acknowledge that this is not a matter of equivalence between two sides with similar gripes. There is no rationalizing white supremacy and no room for this vile bigotry. It is un-American and it needs to be condemned without hesitation.” "
Yeah, that isn't going to happen. He's going to make Stephen Miller his Communications Director!
"He claimed to have lost his job three months ago after being exposed as a white nationalist online. He said he’s working full-time now as an alt-right organizer. For this new life, he said he was preparing to drive home to Pennsylvania Sunday so he could pack his things for a move to Virginia.
In Virginia, he said, he could more easily organize the next big alt-right rallies in the state capital, Richmond, and of course, in Charlottesville."
White supremacists attack ‘radical left’ outside courthouse as Fields Jr. is arraigned
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/you-guys-are-a-lynch-mob-white-supremacists-attack-radical-left-outside-courthouse-as-fields-jr-is-arraigned/
ReplyDeleteTiki Torch Maker Disavows White Supremacists After Weekend Marches
Menacing photos showed white supremacists raising the torches as they marched through the University of Virginia campus this weekend.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tiki-brand-denounces-white-supremacists_us_59919760e4b09096429854b5?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
What a sad country when companies like Skittles and Tiki Torch have to disavow their connection to these political and racist whackos.
DeleteBet the stock on them goes up.
DeleteEPIC FAIL STATEMENT. He gave US a positive report before going to his obligation to mention Charlottesville and the death of 3 people. I don't know who helped him craft this statement but it was basically the same as his first one. A little longer. Those who cause violence are criminal but he is not that specific.
ReplyDeleteIt's Monday After A GOP Race Embarrassment, So Ken Cuccinelli Told A Black Woman To Shut Up
ReplyDeletehttp://crooksandliars.com/2017/08/its-monday-after-gop-race-embarrassment-so
‘Racism Is https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/us/politics/trump-charlottesville-protest.htmlEvil’
ReplyDeleteRacism is evil and the sky is blue. Trump did add KKK, Neo-Nazis, White Supremacists are 'criminal' and 'thugs' like a footnote. It was scanty, he had all week end to come up with something genuine.
Is he talking about domestic terrorists yet?
ReplyDeleteNo, Sarah hasn't put her clothes on yet. Snark.
DeleteIndeed. https://twitter.com/SarahPalinUSA/status/896957068308959233
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/nothing-against-jews-in-general-alex-jones-accuses-kkk-members-of-being-jewish-actors-from-seinfeld/
ReplyDeleteBannon is payed $$$ for EVERY re-run of $einfeld.
Bannon is responsible for leaks to Breitbart but there are others leaking other stuff to other media. The White House is a sieve.
ReplyDeleteScaramucci is still out to get Bannon. We know how much TV Trump watches and Scaramucci never misses an opportunity during a TV interview to bash Bannon. He's accused him of being the leaker. Trump is more than willing to believe it. Bannon is not his long time gumba buddy. Bannon and his Nazi views have just publicly embarrassed Trump and forced him to make a (two days late) statement condemning the KKK and White Supremacists. No mention of the "Alt Right" thought. Isn't that Stephen Miller's invented phrase? Or was it Bannon's?
Yeah, Trump is already isolated, but he will become increasingly paranoid until he is unmanageable. Then he will start WWIII and it will be a nuclear war.
Unless someone can stop him.
Do we really thing Kelly is up to the job? Or will we rely on some lowly enlisteds to simply refuse to launch the missiles?