Donald Trump called to offer his encouragement after Steve Bannon called for primary challenges to Republicans who do not support Trump's agenda.

Courtesy of The Hill:

President Trump reportedly reached out to Stephen Bannon to offer encouragement after the former White House chief strategist called for Republicans who don't support Trump's agenda to be ousted. 

Trump called to offer the encouragement after Bannon appeared on Fox News earlier this week saying he is seeking to line up challengers to GOP incumbents, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing two people familiar with the call. 

White House adviser Jared Kushner also reportedly texted Bannon his praise after the interview. Bannon then celebrated the interview with friends across the street from the Fox studio. 

"There's a coalition coming together that is going to challenge every Republican incumbent except for Ted Cruz," Bannon said during the Monday night interview on "Hannity."

So essentially the leader of the Republican party is supporting the destruction of the Republicans party.

Not sure if this actually calls for popcorn or a stiff drink.

Though I am sure for some of these Republican politicians the decision is simple. 

Russia is trying to start a beef between Donald Trump and the Congress.

Dmitry Medvedev with Vladimir Putin.

Courtesy of Newsweek:

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has issued a warning to Donald Trump’s White House that the “U.S. establishment” is preparing to oust him from power and codifying sanctions on Russia is only the first step. 

“The U.S. President's signing of the package of new sanctions against Russia will have a few consequences,” Medvedev, Vladimir Putin’s onetime successor in the Kremlin wrote on his Facebook page in Russian and English. “First, it ends hopes for improving our relations with the new U.S. administration. Second, it is a declaration of a full-fledged economic war on Russia.”

“The Trump administration has shown its total weakness by handing over executive power to Congress in the most humiliating way,” Medvedev wrote, lauding the “U.S. establishment” for having “fully outwitted” the White House. Both U.S. chambers passed the bill to take the power of lifting sanctions on Russia from Trump, with an overwhelming majority. 

“The issue of new sanctions came about, primarily, as another way to knock Trump down a peg,” the Russian prime minister wrote. “New steps are to come, and they will ultimately aim to remove him from power.”

Jesus Christ! Is that a blatant attempt to freak Trump out about these Russia investigations or what?

And the sad part is that the effort to turn Donald Trump against the federal government is working.

Our relationship with Russia is at an all-time & very dangerous low. You can thank Congress, the same people that can't even give us HCare!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 3, 2017

Once again, is ANYBODY still in doubt that Trump and the Russians worked, and are working, together?

Republican leaders lay out 100 day strategy for denying Donald Trump the nomination.

So that's the way it's gonna be huh?

Courtesy of the Boston Globe:  

Republican leaders adamantly opposed to Donald Trump’s candidacy are preparing a 100-day campaign to deny him the presidential nomination, starting with an aggressive battle in Wisconsin’s April 5 primary and extending into the summer, with a delegate-by-delegate lobbying effort that would cast Trump as a calamitous choice for the general election. 

Recognizing that Trump has seized a formidable advantage, they say that an effort to block him would rely on an array of desperation measures, the political equivalent of guerrilla war. 

There is no longer room for error or delay, the anti-Trump forces say, and without a flawlessly executed plan of attack, he could well become unstoppable. 

But should that effort falter, leading conservatives are prepared to field an independent candidate in the general election, to defend Republican principles and offer traditional conservatives an alternative to Trump’s hard-edged populism. They described their plans in interviews after Trump’s victories Tuesday in Florida and three other states.

The group did not seem terribly keen on throwing their support behind Ted Cruz or John Kasich, instead talking about recruiting folks like Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn or, get this, Rick Perry who dropped out of the race early on.

They are also considering running a third party candidate if they fail to stop Trump.

In other words this is going to be an actual civil war within the Republican party, and that can only bode well for the Democratic candidate in the general.

Which, by the way, is another reason that I want the Democratic nomination process to end quickly.

One of our main selling points right now as a party is that we are the grown ups in the room, maintaining our dignity and trusting in the process.

However if Bernie Sanders decides to take his fight all the way to the Democratic convention, which he has threatened, we lose our edge, and end up seeming just as discombobulated as the Republicans.