Discussion: Report: Bannon Warned Trump 'You Can't Fire The FBI' Amid Comey Chaos

Actually, no. The Titanic just had one really, really big leak, caused by ramming an iceberg at 21 knots.

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Kushner has been a very bad boy. Guess what he did when he failed to get the loan?

https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/884441399629840388

He enjoys getting revenge like his father-in-law, but paybackā€™s going to be a bitch.

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Because heā€™s one of the few there who is only crazy, not stupid as well.

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This guy seriously looks like the crypt keeper! Just how good is the movie version of this admin going to be?

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My first thought was this is a CYA move.

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I can see that but I donā€™t get how this would cover his ass. Itā€™s just a statement of advice and doesnā€™t mean anything. Trump is responsible for firing Comey no matter who told him what. So I donā€™t get what Bannon is trying to do besides throw Jared under the bus.

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Hell, thereā€™s some very powerful evil operating right out in the open.

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If Trump is the Titanic, Bannonā€™s the iceberg. Laying low, heā€™ll still be there when the ship goes down, to greet Captain Pence. Or so he hopes. He discounts global warming.

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Wow, even Bannon is smarter than Trump, than all Trumps combinedā€¦
On the second thought ā€“ I realize this is not surprising.

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My guess is that youā€™re right, but I bet K thinks blames his fatherā€™s misfortune on Chris Christie. It isnā€™t anything that dad did that was unethical, immoral, or illegal. It was all the fault of the Feds.
I bet these guys think that if they do it, itā€™s ok. Things that would be wrong if anyone else did it suddenly become ennobled by their touch.

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I should think that if I were Bannon, that would be quite sufficient. On the other hand, I quite frequently congratulate myself that I am not Bannon.

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A perfectly valid reason to congratulate oneself.

Iā€™m sure thatā€™s enough for Bannon, too. If I didnā€™t realize what an aphrodisiac power is, I would think that Bannon had a thing for Lust Object and was trying to get Jared out of the way. But that ainā€™t it - he wants Jared out of the way because of power not sex.

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Two possibilities come to mind immediately

  1. They thought they could control Tramp and use him to get what they wanted

  2. They knew that Tramp was uncontrollable but didnā€™t care because they wanted the WH and already had plans to take him down in disgrace thereby making the successor look reasonable by comparison

Option 2 continues to interest me because of the Manafort connection. And remember, just like Sessions did when he answered a question Sen. Franken did not ask by saying that heā€™d had no contact with Russians, Pence answered a question he was not asked when he claimed that heā€™d first learned of Flynnā€™s traitorous contacts with Russians from a news story.

Even at lying, they all suck.

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With these people, even sex is about power. Itā€™s a dominationist thing.

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Bannon covering his ass now that the hammers appear to be coming down.

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Exactly. This isnā€™t intelligence or him playing chess instead of checkers, he just doesnā€™t want to go to jail. One day without booze and the collective hangover would cause him to explode

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I fully expect him to, along with everyone else. This just falls way short of any covering for said ass since it doesnā€™t mean much. So there must still be a missing piece and chances are good that weā€™ll find out what it is by the end of the day or at least the week.

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Iā€™m waiting for him to try ā€œfiringā€ members of congress. Heā€™s already shown his willingness to turn his armed lemmings against anyone who openly questions him and heā€™s threatened to have some people ā€œprimariedā€ if they donā€™t follow without question.

How little power he truly has but how massive that flabby, flaccid ego!

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Itā€™s telling that the REPC, Real Estate Power Couple, rented their DC home. They didnā€™t buy. They knew theyā€™d be staying a short while.

And remember, Kush didnā€™t get into Harvard on his own steam. No, his daddy donated a million+ and Kush magically was accepted. Just as Trampā€™s older brother had to call in a favor to get Tramp, a mediocre transfer student, into Penn.

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Agree, but I donā€™t think anyone in the administration (outside of some low level staffers) think theyā€™re going to jail, so this is entirely about public perception, more specifically, public perception to the Fox News audience.

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