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am_Unition  ·  2275 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Trump Tower meeting with Russians 'treasonous', Steve Bannon says in explosive book

Fave quote: (bonus points for source?)

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

Edit: for the blissfully uninitiated: Bannon is executive chairman of Breitbart News.





kleinbl00  ·  2275 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I was going to say this is the journalistic equivalent of sucking one's own cock. But really, it's more the journalistic equivalent of giving oneself a dirty Sanchez.

b_b  ·  2275 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Sufficient lols do not exist in the universe to describe Trump's response:

    Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind. Steve was a staffer who worked for me after I had already won the nomination by defeating seventeen candidates, often described as the most talented field ever assembled in the Republican party.

    Now that he is on his own, Steve is learning that winning isn’t as easy as I make it look. Steve had very little to do with our historic victory, which was delivered by the forgotten men and women of this country. Yet Steve had everything to do with the loss of a Senate seat in Alabama held for more than thirty years by Republicans. Steve doesn’t represent my base—he’s only in it for himself.

    Steve pretends to be at war with the media, which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at the White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was. It is the only thing he does well. Steve was rarely in a one-on-one meeting with me and only pretends to have had influence to fool a few people with no access and no clue, whom he helped write phony books.

    We have many great Republican members of Congress and candidates who are very supportive of the Make America Great Again agenda. Like me, they love the United States of America and are helping to finally take our country back and build it up, rather than simply seeking to burn it all down.

kleinbl00  ·  2275 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Any bets on who wrote it? My money's on Kushner.

I'll bet this gets downright entertaining.

    Mueller’s office declined comment for this story, but former Trump aides say they have no doubt Bannon will be questioned by Mueller. Given the black box the special counsel operates in, it’s possible Bannon has already spoken with the prosecutors.

    “That in my mind is an unequivocal yes,” said a former Trump staffer familiar with the case. “It’d be malpractice not to interview him.”

b_b  ·  2275 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh man, it's even funnier to read in Gilbert Godfrey's Kushner impression voice. Sure is a good forensic exercise to try to pinpoint the author. Whoever it was (and Kushner is a good guess, since he has so much to lose and so much hate for Bannon) tried desperately to sound a little Trumpy (e.g., "often described as the most talented field..."), but did so in such a way that betrayed their ability to complete a thought coherently. There are far too many clauses, transitions, and punctuation to be from the King. Can't imagine Don Jr. or Erik being capable of this level of writing either. Can't imagine Ivanka caring enough to reply. Can imagine John Kelly screaming his head off at everyone to please just leave it alone for once. Pretty much leaves Kushner as the only one who has a beef and can construct a sentence, and is smart enough to try to make it Trumpian while still stupid enough to not know exactly how to do that.

kleinbl00  ·  2275 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If it isn't Kushner, it's Kushner's speechwriter.

    All of these were tasks that I had never performed on a campaign previously. When I was faced with a new challenge, I would reach out to contacts, ask advice, find the right person to manage the specific challenge, and work with that person to develop and execute a plan of action. I was lucky to work with some incredibly talented people along the way, all of whom made significant contributions toward the campaign's ultimate success. Our nimble culture allowed us to adjust to the ever-changing circumstances and make changes on the fly as the situation warranted.

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b_b  ·  2275 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    When I was faced with a new challenge, I would reach out to contacts, ask advice, find the right person to manage the specific challenge, and work with that person to develop and execute a plan of action.

Wait, is Kushner's speech writer "Job Interviews for Dummies"?

am_Unition  ·  2275 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Not a chance. The “...For Dummies” books are so0oOo0 establishment.

am_Unition  ·  2275 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Tomorrow:

    Don Jr. was a member of the Trump family for only a short period of time. He was a volunteer, low level member. We all know that he is, at best, a distant 3rd favorite to Ivanka and, the house would contend, Eric and occasionally Tiffany, too.

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