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Steve Bannon is lawyering up as he gets ready to face investigators looking into the Trump-Russia nexus.
The Daily Beast has learned that the former top White House strategist has retained Bill Burck, of the firm Quinn Emanuel. Two sources tell us Burck is helping Bannon prepare for an interview with the House intelligence committee, which is currently scheduled for next week. Sources also said Bannon plans to “fully cooperate” with investigators.
Oh yeah, I think we all knew this was coming.
I imagine that after being thrown under the bus by Trump, that Bannon is dying for a little payback.
I am so regretting not buying those shares in Orville Redenbacher right about now.
I suspect Bannon may be less than forthcoming. Unless he is in Mueller's crosshairs and desperately needs to cut a deal with Mueller. Bannon is a snake out only for himself and he always will be. I do hope he can provide some good info on Jared and Ivanka.
ReplyDeleteI don’t agree.
DeleteI think Bannon is just as vindictive and petty as Trump, he’s just better at it. Bannon gave Trump every opportunity to walk back his treatment of Bannon. Trump doubled down and had Mercer fire Bannon from Breitbart. There was one last attempt and Bannon was rebuffed.
NOW it’s payback time. Bannon will have no guilt whatsoever in telling the committee and Mueller if it comes to that, everything he knows, plus opinions if asked for them. He’ll be honest. Brutally honest. And he will defend himself by saying that he had to be honest or risk being indicted himself.
This is Trump’s weakness. He doesn’t think people will turn on him and if they do, thinks that he can just call them liars and dismiss what they know.
He isn’t going to be able to claim that Bannon was just the Coffee Boy. Trump created the position of Chief Strategist for Bannon.
Not only does Bannon know where all the bodies are buried, he’s going to point to where they are and help dig them up.
I'm delighted to hear Bannon is going to spill the beans on the 'supposed' qualified person in the wh!
ReplyDeleteRead the best seller book "Fire and Fury'. Bannon is going to be portrayed very differently than he has been this past week.
Republicans have to be shaking in their boots! Couldn't happen to a better group of thieves and liars! Most especially their racist leader, Donald Trump!
Don't expect a lot from Bannon. He really expects Trump to last 4 years. He can be bought.
DeleteHe is very willing to say "It's what i percieved but i have no direct knowlege of it".
We wish but that's not how Bannon will play the game he knows the rewards of keeping his mouth shut.
You have to remember these people have no honor, anything for power or money. This is who they are and Bannon will fold like the pos he is.
Do not expect a slime ball to be a hero, wait for a real savior Bannon ain't it.Think of a snake slithering on the ground and it;s option is "We can cut your head off or give you a future if you grovel"
That is Bannon. He will grovel and he already has started to do it.
3:50 PM I think the Breitbart canary will sing.
DeleteBannon believes that Trump only has a 30% chance of finishing a full term. Here's a link:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/11/politics/donald-trump-steve-bannon-vanity-fair/index.html
Bannon has no reason to keep silent or protect Trump. Promises? Not worth shit. Trump called Mercer and had him fired. He is out of the White House, out of Breitbart and there is no going back. Every attempt to mend fences has been rebuffed.
DeleteBannon has nothing to lose and everything to gain by telling all he knows. For once, being honest is going to pay.
Trump races to head off another special election debacle
ReplyDeleteTrump will travel to southwestern Pennsylvania next week in an effort to avoid a second electoral embarrassment in two months.
he White House is scrambling to avoid another special election disaster, this time in a Pennsylvania congressional district in the heart of Trump country.
After a humiliating loss in the Alabama Senate race last month, the administration is drawing up ambitious plans that will kick off next Thursday when Trump travels to the conservative district to appear with Republican candidate Rick Saccone. Vice President Mike Pence and an assortment of Cabinet officials are also expected to make trips; Pence may go twice ahead of the March 13 special election, two administration officials said.
...Republicans have reason to worry. Aside from his anemic fundraising, Saccone, a Trump-aligned state representative, is facing a telegenic opponent in Democrat Conor Lamb, an Ivy League-educated 33-year-old attorney and Marine Corps veteran. The special election was triggered in October, when former GOP Rep. Tim Murphy resigned amid allegations that he asked a woman he was having an affair with to get an abortion.
The contest was discussed at a private weekend sit-down between Trump and congressional leaders at Camp David last weekend. During the meeting, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy delivered a sobering presentation on the election landscape in which he underscored the historic tendency for the party in power to lose seats in a president’s first midterm. McCarthy, according to two people familiar with the discussion, made a broad ask for assistance from the White House and warned that a loss of the House majority could have profound consequences for Trump's administration.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/11/trump-special-election-pennsylvania-pittsburg-336502
https://twitter.com/ConorLambPA
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/jan5lamb
I just read about this, Gryphen, and donated. Let's make this another Alabama and leave the GOP in the dust.
Trump’s Wall Street Journal interview is incoherent and bizarre
ReplyDeletehttps://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/1/11/16880592/trump-wall-street-journal-interview-incoherent-bizarre-nafta-kim-jong-un
Trump’s “shithole countries” comment exposes the core of Trumpism
Trump’s racism isn’t incidental to his political appeal. It’s the core of it.
The president of the United States just interrupted an immigration meeting in the White House to tell a group of presumably surprised lawmakers that the United States was “having all these people from shithole countries come here.”
He suggested, per the Washington Post, that the US should stop admitting immigrants from Haiti and El Salvador and instead bring in more people from Norway, whose prime minister met with Trump on Wednesday.
The sheer racism of the comments would be shocking coming from any other president. The heartbreaking, and terrifying, thing is that it’s not the least bit surprising coming from Donald Trump.
This is a man who launched his political career by pushing a conspiracy theory that the first black president was not actually born in America. This is a candidate who rocketed to the top of the GOP primary polls by calling Mexicans rapists. This is a president who has repeatedly attempted to act on his campaign pledge to ban Muslims from entering the United States, who has said that Haitian immigrants “all have AIDS” and that Nigerians live in “huts.”
It’s not just that Trump has consistently and unambiguously expressed beliefs like this — though he has. It’s that his willingness to say these things, out loud, is the core of his political appeal to his vaunted base. Trump won the GOP primary and the presidency not in spite of his xenophobia and racism, but because of them.
Put even more bluntly, his talk about “shithole countries” is a perfect distillation of Trumpism.
“Trumpism” is just the politics of white grievance
https://www.vox.com/2018/1/11/16880804/trump-shithole-countries-racism
Exactly. White grievance in a nutshell. Lock him up!
DeleteNobody from Norway would want to immigrate to the USA,they have universal healthcare,maternity leave and other goodies,like not a shithole leader of their country.
DeleteAnd it’s clear from twitter that Norwegians believe the US is a shithole country.
DeleteWhy would people from Norway want to come here? They have socialized medicine, an excellent school system, a high standard of living, and their governmental officials do not publicly embarrass them in front of the world.
DeleteConagra (CAG) owns Orville Redenbacher and overall it's not a bad investment.
ReplyDeleteRemember, he's the ultimate alt-righter. Even with the Mercers cutting off funding, I highly doubt that he'll sing like a bird.
ReplyDeleteThe minute he leaves the WH the Mercers will give him a voice again. Talk about shit holes …...
Delete“A SAFE SPACE FOR TRUMP”: INSIDE THE FEEDBACK LOOP BETWEEN THE PRESIDENT AND FOX NEWS
ReplyDeleteWith Roger Ailes gone, the network’s chief de-facto programmer is the president. “He has the same embattled view as a typical Fox viewer.”
...According to conversations in recent days with current and former Fox executives, producers, and hosts, Trump looms almost as large in the minds of employees as Ailes did. Fox hosts regularly get calls from Trump about segments he likes—or doesn’t. “When you worked at Fox, you knew that at any moment Roger Ailes was watching. Every day was like a job interview with Ailes. Now it’s the same way for Trump,” says a veteran Fox News contributor. According to sources, Trump doesn’t explicitly dictate talking points the way Ailes did, but over time, the effect can be similar. “What he usually does is he’ll call after a show and say, ‘I really enjoyed that,’” a former Fox anchor told me. “The highest compliment is, ‘I really learned something.’ Then you know he got a new policy idea.” But knowing Trump always could be tuning in means the network is being programmed for an audience of one. “He has the same embattled view as a typical Fox viewer—that ‘the liberal elites hate me; they’re trying to bring me down,’” an executive said.
This dynamic makes it extremely complicated to cover the administration’s near-constant conflagrations. “They don’t want to see stuff about Michael Wolff. It’s depressing,” one staffer said, speaking about how the network struggled to cover the frenzy around Fire and Fury. One sure strategy has been to follow Trump’s lead and continue attacking the Clintons. Since becoming president, Trump has tweeted about Hillary Clinton about 70 times. Trump brought up Hillary multiple times at a joint press conference with the Norwegian prime minister on January 10. One Fox staffer explained that the anti-Hillary segments rate almost higher than anything else the network programs. “The audience eats up anything about Hillary,” the staffer said. Fox will soon debut a new weekly documentary series called Scandalous. The subject of the first episode: the Clintons.
...Now, some prominent voices at Fox openly seem to be aiding the Trump agenda. In recent months, hosts such Sean Hannity, Jesse Watters, and Jeanine Pirro have promoted wild conspiracy theories about Trump being the victim of an F.B.I.-led coup. In December, The New York Times reported that Pirro had a one-hour Oval Office meeting with Trump where she denounced Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller and Attorney General Jeff Sessions. If Pirro sometimes appeared to be lobbying for a White House job, it’s possibly because she’d wanted one. A few days after Trump won the election, Pirro walked out of the makeup room at Fox and declared, “I really want a job in this administration,” according to a person who witnessed the remark. Pirro did not respond to a request for comment.
It’s frustrating to some inside Fox that the network is now seen as the propaganda wing of Trump’s White House and lacks a post-Trump programming strategy. “It’s freaky to see him tweeting at Fox & Friends,” one staffer said. “That doesn’t help us. We’re not state television.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/01/inside-the-feedback-loop-between-the-president-and-fox-news
Not state television???
DeleteWell, you could have fooled me!
I wonder how proud Mike Wallace would be of his son pushing their crap.
OMG! 4:51
DeleteInteresting, but learn to edit.
Be nice if someone would tell all. Cowards. They were all in it for themselves and they will only talk if its' their asses or there's money in it for themselves. That's who is running our government.
ReplyDelete‘This is not America!’: Ana Navarro rakes ‘shameless racist’ Trump across the coals for ‘sh*thole’ comment:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/this-is-not-america-ana-navarro-rakes-shameless-racist-trump-across-the-coals-for-shthole-comment/
California just suffered mudslides. Puerto Rico is still suffering and our so called president gets up to watch Fox News, takes a shit, eats his breakfast and shows up at 11:am to bitch about Hillary, has lunch with the sycrophant of the day and then has "Executive time" waiting for Friday so he can golf on our dime.
ReplyDeletePolitico has his schedule of the day. This is the laziest pos ever. So now sitting on your ass is called "exectutive" time.If he spent one half of his time not being butt hurt and not bitching like the drama queen he is it would be a miracle.
Yeah but I say the more “Executive Time” the better. Keep him out of the Oval night and day. Eventually the cheeseburgers in bed blow up his fat orange ass.
DeleteUnfortunately president fat ass could live for his whole term while being played by his handlers.
DeleteMeanwhile we have a non exsistant First Lady who was an immegrant herself but we wont go into that because it might make his follwers become "Slody heads".
Never has the bar been so lowered.
If you think nude pics of the First Lady are acceptable, you may be a Rebublican. If you spout family values and support a President who says "Grab them by the pussy" you may be a Rebublican, or just a racist loser looking for blame.
I never thought I would see the day when I would hope the president was playing golf so that he would not be destroying our country.
DeleteWith all his faults, even GW Bush was a far better president and although he started a couple of illegal wars at least we didn’t have to worry about him going nuclear.
I am so sick and tired of the lying, the degrading name calling and the ignorance of this FAKE president.
yes, you know it's bad when you start having fond thoughts of W. Bush. he at least was a human being. you could tell because he loved his dog.
DeleteI’ll never like George W. Bush. He was an idiot and did a lot of damage to this country. But to his credit, he was compassionate. He was not intentionally cruel, bigoted, racist or just plain evil. Stupid, yes. Cruel, no.
DeleteAnd that is why Bush will never be the worst president in the history of this country.
No one else will be the worst president this country has ever had.
That dubious honor will forever be held by President Shithole.
You know what is going to happen next?
DeleteThey’ll be publishing Obama’s work day schedules for comparison.
Well right now this is America.
ReplyDeleteAnd let me say how dissapointed i am with the Democratic Party, will they never fight?
Is there a game plan behind the scenes? Every day i see our country run like a reality tv show. I see a President who tweets, what i don't see is a President who cares about anything but his image.
We never had this drama when Obama was President, remember when we had a President who we did not tweet shit every day? Remember when we had an adult in the White House?Remember when the closing of Sams Clubs would have been not seen as a victory for Wall Mart just so they can give their 20 plus years employees a thousand dollar bonus taxed at40 percent?
This is massive layoffs and Trump calls it winning.
No, there is no plan and no fight. No leadership either. That’s the problem. They elected the wrong chairman.
DeleteNo Drama Obama.
Now we have President Shithole.
Hey, how about that, "tell all".
ReplyDeleteI don't know about you guys but i plan to tell my boss tomorrow that i need executive time. If it's good enough for Trump who am i to question it!After all this is the President right?I figure with all the tax breaks my employer is getting to "stimulate" the economy the least i can do is my part, just like the President! I am just being patriotic by example.
ReplyDeletewouldn't if i were you. YOU can get fired without any trouble at all.
DeleteI smell another tell all book.
ReplyDeleteDon't expect too much from Bannon unless Mueller has the goods on him
ReplyDeleteI would much rather that Bannon was called by Mueller, these congressional hearings don't mean much.
ReplyDeleteThey are all a barrel of snakes in trumpland. And in the USA land they do not fit. We are the United States full of immigrants and innovation. They are the scum of the swamp and we can not change nor help them. They will eat and attack each other and we will watch. Our children must witness right vs wrong in real life. It is up to us to explain to our children how and why this is happening to our country, families and friends. It will be a good day when we can ignore them until then we must expose them.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely. How well put. I'm all for shipping all of them,Palins,Trumps,the whole lot to off to Putin. The all have dirty hands. Speaking of dirty hands... Has Wallow given those dirty knuckles a good scrubbing,yet? Ugh.
Deletekeep telling your children about Obama. he is a shining example of simply, a good man.
DeleteAnon @ 740: DJT is jealous of Mr. Obama because he can't even get invited to an embassy opening when BHO gets an ovation when he walks across a sidewalk with a cup of coffee in his hand. Ha ha, Donnie. You'll never be as good as that.
DeleteSteve Bannon's America view has always been that it needs to be torn completely down and rebuilt. Never mind the resulting chaos and devastation our nation will suffer. He hoped to accomplish his destruction from within Trump's whitehouse. Now, I guess he'll settle for bringing it about by destroying the current administration.
ReplyDeleteThis administration is doing a fine job of destroying itself without bannon's help.
Deleteexcellent comment. i agree,5:15.
DeleteI hope he cleans up for it. He needs a stylist. Willow.
ReplyDeleteCracks me up.
there is nothing wrong with easy. dirty is another thing, and he is dirty. Willow couldn't do too bad.
DeleteFor those who think Bannon won't be telling Mueller anything, please note that his lawyer, William Burke, is only representing him in regards to the 2016 campaign. Burke is also representing Reince Priebus and White House Counsel Don McGahn.
ReplyDeleteA lawyer will not represent a person if there is a conflict of interest with another client. I believe Reince has already been cooperating with Mueller.
Birdbrain
the Panama Paper Trails?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/us-ambassador-to-panama-resigns-after-saying-he-can-no-longer-serve-under-trump/
i'm sick of popcorn-how about some chocolate chip cookies?
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