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kpete

(72,046 posts)
Wed Jan 3, 2018, 11:06 AM Jan 2018

It wasn't the actual commission of treason that bothered Bannon -It was that they didn't do it right

Last edited Wed Jan 3, 2018, 11:42 AM - Edit history (1)


You’re doing the colluding wrong.


for the record, it was not the actual commission of treason that bothered Bannon. It was that they simply didn’t do it right.

Bannon went on, Wolff writes, to say that if any such meeting had to take place, it should have been set up “in a Holiday Inn in Manchester, New Hampshire, with your lawyers who meet with these people”.


See guys? You hold your Russian agent meetings out of town, not in your own offices.

(Note to FBI: You might want to check the Manchester, New Hampshire Holiday Inn registration for the last few months of 2016. Just in case.)

Bannon also has an interesting take on one other thing.

Any information, he said, could then be “dump(ed] … down to Breitbart or something like that, or maybe some other more legitimate publication”.



It’s nice to know that even Steve Bannon realizes that Breitbart is not a legitimate publication. Oh, and FBI? Another note on things to check.


MORE:


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/03/donald-trump-russia-steve-bannon-michael-wolff?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/3/1729479/-Trump-Tower-meeting-was-treasonous-says-Steve-Bannon
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It wasn't the actual commission of treason that bothered Bannon -It was that they didn't do it right (Original Post) kpete Jan 2018 OP
Another maggot MFM008 Jan 2018 #1
you mean MAGAt ;) n/t yodermon Jan 2018 #3
Nice malaise Jan 2018 #4
+1 uponit7771 Jan 2018 #7
good one! MFM008 Jan 2018 #11
Kick dalton99a Jan 2018 #2
Thomas Barrack Jr ... one of the presidents oldest acquaintances: He's not just crazy. He's stupid hedda_foil Jan 2018 #5
The overt and blatant way that this man has carried on will help with his undoing. YES ! N/T Kirk Lover Jan 2018 #6
Reminds me of the response when Deep Throat finally came out... Wounded Bear Jan 2018 #8
All of them bucolic_frolic Jan 2018 #9
This makes more sense...the headlines all over, screaming, Bannon Says XYZ BlancheSplanchnik Jan 2018 #10
Don't be duped Raven123 Jan 2018 #12
dump(ed] down to Breitbart or something like that" MGKrebs Jan 2018 #13
Jackass 2left4u Jan 2018 #14
Blowback! Duck and cover!! bucolic_frolic Jan 2018 #15
This is one instance when Trump and Bannon are both telling the truth Dopers_Greed Jan 2018 #17
Bannon is just trying to save his own hide Dopers_Greed Jan 2018 #16
Yes, because Bannon True Blue American Jan 2018 #18
That's hilarious. Sorta... Hekate Jan 2018 #19

hedda_foil

(16,379 posts)
5. Thomas Barrack Jr ... one of the presidents oldest acquaintances: He's not just crazy. He's stupid
Wed Jan 3, 2018, 11:38 AM
Jan 2018

Now that's a quote.

Wounded Bear

(58,777 posts)
8. Reminds me of the response when Deep Throat finally came out...
Wed Jan 3, 2018, 12:34 PM
Jan 2018

They were pissed that the guy was not personally loyal to Nixon. Patriotism to the country didn't enter the equation.

It's an authoritarian mindset.

bucolic_frolic

(43,487 posts)
9. All of them
Wed Jan 3, 2018, 12:59 PM
Jan 2018

if they were not in the highest echelons of their professions they would be in insane asylums, muttering and rambling and screaming diatribes against the world as they saw it. They are lunatics totally.

BlancheSplanchnik

(20,219 posts)
10. This makes more sense...the headlines all over, screaming, Bannon Says XYZ
Wed Jan 3, 2018, 01:03 PM
Jan 2018

Don’t feel right. I mean I know the enemy of my enemy, blah blahddy blah”, but ascribing any authority to the Voice of Steve —“*urrrrp*, you all gonna eat those martini olives?*hic*—Bannon doesn’t feel right.

Raven123

(4,932 posts)
12. Don't be duped
Wed Jan 3, 2018, 01:15 PM
Jan 2018

Ban on is saying that nothing illegal happened and that the only reason we know about it is because of where the meeting took place. He's just trying to downplay the meeting and saying that Don Jr. was too stupid to know better. Nice try.

MGKrebs

(8,138 posts)
13. dump(ed] down to Breitbart or something like that"
Wed Jan 3, 2018, 01:23 PM
Jan 2018

Which is why so many here (including me) get so frustrated with the Louise Mensch fascination, because she clearly repeats pretty much anything she hears from any source (even if it's only her own head sometimes). Without the vetting that actual journalists use she is susceptible to be used. Anybody could feed her any crazy idea and she would repeat it without any concern. (I should make up something weird and send it to her and see what happens.) Which is, of course, exactly how the Russian trolling worked. Throw something controversial/divisive out there and get people fighting about it. No evidence needed. It's like throwing a hologram of red meat to real wolves.

 

2left4u

(186 posts)
14. Jackass
Wed Jan 3, 2018, 01:26 PM
Jan 2018

Whoever said your rag qualified as being anything other than legitimately racist, right right RIGHT WING NUT NAZI Propaganda?

And if you think it was treasonous why didn't YOU report instead of trying to prophet off it.

Capitalist Pig...how hope his supporters and Trumps finally figure out they got played and go back under the rocks they came from.

Dopers_Greed

(2,640 posts)
17. This is one instance when Trump and Bannon are both telling the truth
Wed Jan 3, 2018, 01:44 PM
Jan 2018

Trump Co. committed treason.
Bannon is a traitor.

Both true statements.

Dopers_Greed

(2,640 posts)
16. Bannon is just trying to save his own hide
Wed Jan 3, 2018, 01:42 PM
Jan 2018

He knows that Trump Co. is done, and he's doing this to distance himself.

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