Bannon allies say statement praising Trump Jr. was spiked after Trump went nuclear
Source: The Hill
Breitbart News chairman Stephen Bannon on Wednesday was about to issue a statement praising Donald Trump Jr. and disputing his quotes in a book from Michael Wolff, but the statement was spiked after President Trump went nuclear on his former chief strategist.
Multiple sources with knowledge of the situation say that Bannons aides sought to impress upon him the need to put out a statement quickly. The aides had crafted a statement, which was pending Bannons approval, when the White House beat him to the punch.
In the unreleased statement, Bannon had planned to call Trump Jr. a patriot and dispute the account in Wolffs book, "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," in which Bannon described Trump Jr. as treasonous and unpatriotic for setting up a 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with a Russian lawyer.
Bannon and his allies did not see a need to release the statement once Trump accused his former top campaign aide of having lost his mind. They believe the presidents statement effectively ended the relationship between the two men.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/367452-bannon-allies-say-statement-praising-trump-jr-was-spiked-after-trump
pnwmom
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http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-steve-bannon-michael-wolff-fire-and-fury-audio-recording-770431The author of a new book that's loaded with explosive anecdotes of a disorganized and chaotic White House is backed up by "dozens of hours" of audio recordings of senior staff, according to a report.
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, whose quotes triggered a firestorm at the White House on Wednesday, and former White House deputy chief of staff Katie Walsh are among the top officials author and journalist Michael Wolff recorded for new book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, according to Axios.
YessirAtsaFact
(2,064 posts)Those damn tapes...always getting in the way of a retraction.
Court-ordered retraction, yes, but he's a pro at just claiming whatever he wants and selling it to millions. Tapes are great audio for campaign ads, though.
SunSeeker
(51,811 posts)OMG. This story gets better and better.
pnwmom
(109,025 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,150 posts)oh god this makes my day
Do people understand bannon was about to make a statement, that was a lie, like everything else he or trump ever say?
It goes without notice now how easily and common they lie....
pnwmom
(109,025 posts)regnaD kciN
(26,045 posts)Then how come Bannon put out a statement effusively praising The Manbaby Who Would Be King, even after the latter had publicly disowned him in that statement?
BigmanPigman
(51,672 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Bannon needs power. Even attacking Trump links him in media commentary with power.
My guess is that Trump misses his horse whisperer almost as much as Bannon misses direct manipulation, though.
BigmanPigman
(51,672 posts)I was thinking of Dumb and Dumber but Bannon isn't even close to the moron in the "intelligence category".
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)rainin
(3,011 posts)SunSeeker
(51,811 posts)They cut off their $upport $pigot to him because of the book.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)It's like palace intrigue on crack.
Someday this will all be a movie, a black comedy maybe, a tragic comedy perhaps, but most definitely lengthy. 3 hours with an intermission. 3 parts even
We need a screen writer on the level of Shakespeare.
Although on second thought a lot of this stuff writes itself
Cha
(298,077 posts)steroids.
GusBob
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)I'm thinkin the latter.
thbobby
(1,474 posts)Had to plagiarize Hackman from Mississippi Burning. Seems spot on to me. Great movie too!
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)Who is he that he needs aides? I want aides!
groundloop
(11,537 posts)TeamPooka
(24,303 posts)getagrip_already
(14,980 posts)it would explain why he hasn't said anything publically. the book was written months ago. Leaked stories may be just window dressing to cover up the deal.
Well, that's bill palmers take anyway.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,075 posts)But not unexpected by those of us who were able to determine before the election that Trump was a tremendously needy narcissist and a lousy businessperson.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)Raven123
(4,937 posts)Butterflylady
(3,557 posts)Everybody form a circle; now fire!!!!
JohnnyRingo
(18,696 posts)It would be like if a drunken asshole was at your party, and just when you're about to pick him up off the floor and show him out, he puked on your carpet. Upon which, Bannon spat on him and kicked him in the kidney. "Dude, I was about to help you out until you did that".
truthisfreedom
(23,169 posts)And their fates.