The New York Mag piece was riveting, but read this one from the Hollywood Reporter linked below. The first half of the piece is stuff weâve all read by now. But the bottom half is almost as scary as it is alarming as it is funny.
I wonder if trump has âthat sinking feelingâ yet.
Need big big hugley bigly rock to hold him down on the bottom.
The old s*it floats theory applied here.
Wolff has a well-earned reputation for exaggeration, but the existence of these hours and hours of tapes will make lots of WH staffers very nervous about their job securityâand their possibility of going to prison.
Wouldnât you think that knowing with whom he was dealing and Trumpâs history of threats of retaliation, heâd be more careful about what he included in that book?
More stuff for Mueller to subpoena.
James Comey better hope that there are no âtapesâ of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!
â Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, 2017
âWolff has âdozens of hoursâ recorded from his discussions with Bannon, Trumpâs former deputy chief of staff Katie Walsh and other officials, some of whom thought they were speaking off the record.â
And, somewhere, Fred Thompson smiles.
First off, its dozens of hours of Bannon talking. He is not under oath, and being a well known liar and manipulator who, as it was famously put, is interested in sucking his own c-ck, not particularly useful to Mueller.
TBH, there is something fishy about this whole scenario to me still. Bannon burning his bridges to promoteâŚsomeone elseâs book? Bannon getting cut off from the Mercer funds? Bannon supposedly still having personal calls with Trump as of just a few weeks ago, now suddenly wants to tear the man down?
The only piece that is really making sense to me is Bannon is trying to toss Kushner and Junior over the edge before he goes downâŚgetting his side of the story out there first. Which tracks if Bannon believes that Mueller is going to come crashing down on his head very soon.
Even the âBannon is a complete nihilist and was the mole whose only aim is to burn down everythingâ doesnât entirely ring true to me. He ends up burning himself down worse than anyone else in this process.
Because Bannon has raised his toxicity levels into the stratosphere now. Cut off from his sugar momma/daddy, and dumping out harmful stories from the candidate he workedâŚnobody will touch him. Even a crazed Trumper candidate isnât going to want Bannon anywhere near him after this.
Wolff, Bannon, and Trump: three malignant narcissists caught in a whirlwind of ego.
A miserable result from this entire kerfuffle is Trump might feel thereâs a surefire way to divert everyoneâs attention from Wolff, the book, Bannon, etc. A couple ICBMs of low grade force dropped on N. Korea military targets would do the trickâŚ
What I want to know is how many bottles of booze were consumed during those interviews.
At this point, I wouldnât put anything past anyone. Any scenario is possible with the right salesman.
âAccording to New York Magazine, nobody in Trumpâs administration was in a
position to either sanction or revoke Wolffâs access, which was not
restricted and had no conditions attached, and Wolff subsequently
conducted more than 200 interviews.â
I know itâs a small thing for me to fixate on, but that quote is a textbook example of a dysfunctional organization. No one in the entire White House had any power to sanction or revoke his access? To the inner circles of the White House? Literally dozens of people would have had this power; that access is hard to obtain and easy to lose. But there are so many people with competing agendas in that hellhole that everyone assumed someone else had authorized Wolff.
Youâve got to keep in mind the timing here. This is not Bannon suddenly speaking out, itâs a book based on interviews and access in late 2016 and early 2017. Thereâs no sudden decision by Bannon to burn bridges, no current calculations at all, by anyone.
Surely not enough. The Nixonian parallels just keep growing.
Except he specifically mentioned the Trump Tower meeting yesterday. And even suggested that Junior brought all the participants in to meet with Trump right after.
That news wasnât out there in late 2016/early 2017.
And that is where the âtreasonâ quote comes into play.
No, itâs not just Bannon. There are reportedly others too including former Deputy CoS Katie Walsh.
The book officially comes out Tuesday, although itâs already in print and several members of the media have advanced copies. These recordings and interviews are months old. The remarks about Jr. are from July. The media has done a terrible job of making it clear that these interviews werenât last week.
Although Bannon did praise Donnie effusively in the past 24 hours, which leads credence to the idea that everyone in the WH assumed Wolff was serving as a literary Riefenstahl rather than a snoop.
He was encouraged by trump to be thereâŚthe fact that he taped his conversations was a good move IMO.