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Trump just threw Steve Bannon

artappraiser — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 06:03:56 +0000

In reply to Bannon Fired! From NSC

Trump just threw Steve Bannon under the bus and backed it up over him

In just a brief statement, he managed to portray Bannon as unimportant, ineffective, and on thin ice.

@ Vox.com, April 12

A detail I hadn't glommed on

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 08 Apr 2017 06:56:00 +0000

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A detail I hadn't glommed on to. Supposedly reknowned cheapass Trump plopped down $5 million to miracle makers Cambridge Analytica when Hillary was too cheap/shortsighted to do it. More likely is the Mercers got a heavy campaign kickback for what they already owned, like Trump overcharging for his plane.

I guess Cambridge's stolen data is beyond investigation and prosecution now.

Variant of he said/she said:

artappraiser — Sat, 08 Apr 2017 06:08:56 +0000

In reply to WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON

Variant of he said/she said: "two Sources" say vs Sarah the spokesperson:

Trump fires warning shot in battle between Bannon and Kushner

By Jeremy W. Peters and Maggie Haberman for New York Times (via BostonGlobe.com link), April 08, 2017

WASHINGTON — As he grappled on Thursday with his first major decision involving military action, a fed-up and frustrated President Donald Trump turned to his two top aides and told them he had had enough of their incessant knife-fights in the media.

“Work this out,” Trump said, according to two people briefed on the exchange. The admonition was aimed at Stephen Bannon, the tempestuous chief strategist, and Reince Priebus, the mild-mannered chief of staff, over a series of dustups with Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, and the top economic adviser, Gary D. Cohn.

The president is said to be aware that a meaningful reconciliation is unlikely between Bannon, who sees himself as the keeper of Trump’s campaign promises, and the competing ideologies of Kushner and Cohn, a longtime Wall Street executive and a Democrat. And he is considering a shake-up of his senior staff, according to four people with direct knowledge of the process.

Whether he acts on it remains to be seen. Trump has often pondered making changes for several weeks or even months before making them, if he does at all. He has a high tolerance for chaos [....]

A spokeswoman for Trump, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, insisted that such accounts were untrue.

“Once again this is completely false story driven by people who want to distract from the success taking place in this administration,” she said in an emailed statement. “The President’s pick for the Supreme Court (a decision that has generational impact) was confirmed today, we hosted multiple foreign leaders this week and the President took bold and decisive military action against Syria last night. The only thing we are shaking up is the way Washington operates as we push the President’s aggressive agenda forward.”

But two people who have spoken with Trump said he recognized that the continuing state of drama [....]

Steve Bannon Calls Jared

artappraiser — Sat, 08 Apr 2017 04:24:40 +0000

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Steve Bannon Calls Jared Kushner a ‘Cuck’ and ‘Globalist’ Behind His Back

@ Daily Beast, April 6

Donald Trump’s two closest aides are fighting “nonstop” and often “face-to-face,” officials say — and it’s even uglier in private.

More fighting by leak::

artappraiser — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 00:20:17 +0000

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More fighting by leak:: Megadonor urged Bannon not to resign

Trump’s strategist threatened to leave the White House after clashing with Jared Kushner.

By Eliana Johnson, Kenneth P. Vogel and Josh Dawsey 04/05

Excerpt, my highlighting:

.... Five people, including a senior administration official and several sources close to the president, tell POLITICO that Steve Bannon, one of Trump’s closest advisers, has clashed with the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who’s taken on an increasingly prominent portfolio in the West Wing. Bannon has complained that Kushner and his allies are trying to undermine his populist approach, the sources said.

Republican megadonor Rebekah Mercer, a longtime Bannon confidante who became a prominent Trump supporter during the campaign, urged Bannon not to resign. “Rebekah Mercer prevailed upon him to stay,” said one person familiar with the situation.

Another person familiar with the situation, a GOP operative who talks to Mercer, said: “Bekah tried to convince him that this is a long-term play.”

Bannon has worked closely with Mercer not only at the right-wing website Breitbart News, where her family is a major investor and where he served as executive chairman until joining the Trump campaign in August, but also at Cambridge Analytica, the data-analytics firm owned largely by the Mercers....

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON

artappraiser — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 22:53:43 +0000

In reply to Bannon Fired! From NSC

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?

Politico says Civil war rages throughout Trump administration

Trump campaign staffers are squaring off against establishment GOP types in federal agencies — and the casualties are piling up.

By Alex Isenstadt and Andrew Restuccia, 04/06

The swamp is winning the battle,” said one former Trump campaign aide. “And longtime campaign staffers are proving to be the first casualties."

YES!

Richard Day — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 03:01:07 +0000

In reply to NYT reporting tonight that it

YES!

Thank you.

Maybe this bastard has been deballed after all

NYT reporting tonight that it

artappraiser — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 02:12:24 +0000

In reply to AA I agree 100% with this

NYT reporting tonight that it really was a case of "you're fired!" just like on The Apprentice, albeit orchestrated by McMaster, and that Bannon was upset

....In a move that was widely seen as a sign of changing fortunes, Mr. Trump removed Mr. Bannon, his chief strategist, from the National Security Council’s cabinet-level “principals committee” on Wednesday. The shift was orchestrated by Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, Mr. Trump’s national security adviser, who insisted on purging a political adviser from the Situation Room where decisions about war and peace are made.

Mr. Bannon resisted the move, even threatening at one point to quit if it went forward, according to a White House official who, like others, insisted on anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. Mr. Bannon’s camp denied that he had threatened to resign and spent the day spreading the word that the shift was a natural evolution, not a signal of any diminution of his outsize influence...

Note that the article is by the 3 reporters with the most ties to the White House staff leakers, who have often gotten the leaks that end up being true:

By PETER BAKER, MAGGIE HABERMAN and GLENN THRUSH

AA I agree 100% with this

Richard Day — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 01:36:20 +0000

In reply to What I glean from the evening

AA I agree 100% with this analysis.

McMaster (why he never hung in there and got his PHD is beyond me) appears to be 'in charge'.

I am viewing Rachel now and the same type of discussion ensues.

If Bannon were in charge, I believe that he would never stand for this stand down. hahahahah

I will say this.

If Cruz were in charge right now, we would be in a worse fix.

Better incompetence than the competence of the real right.

That's all I got.

What I glean from the evening

artappraiser — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 01:02:24 +0000

In reply to This is all so strange?

What I glean from the evening talk shows in the background and bouncing around the net, so cavaet emptor:

McMaster wins, is basically in charge of foreign policy and that will be more grown up from now one, including the Prez himself, note how his Syria comments today were quite different from yesterday. And grownup GOP Senators are breathing sigh of relief. And he might even make Tillerson get his act together.

But "they" are also saying it means: White House domestic policy and politics is still chaos and infighting. All Trump's got in that vein that he trusts is his family. Nepotism reigns for the foreseeable future, nobody else in the White House has any power.