Here’s hoping he dishes on the Mercers. Trump is one of the smaller potatoes in the criminal organization that is the Republican party and their benefactors, until Bob and his odious daughter Rebekah (with a K), Murdoch, Adelson and at least one of the Koch automotons go down, little will change in this country.
Now this should be really interesting. Knowing how Bannon conducts himself, we will all see how he spouts off afterwards. Trump will probably love this!
Bannon knows that Team Mueller already knows the answers to at least half the questions it asks.
The problem for Bannon is he doesn’t know which half.
Will they interview Bannon’s skin tags and irregular moles too? They’ve seen all kinds of stuff that Bannon himself may not want to talk about.
Here’s hoping he dishes on the Mercers.
Bannon’s in the position to know where the CA/Mercer/social media/digital bodies are buried and the Mercer’s recent very public abandonment of Bannon may give him extra incentive to come clean to Mueller, but will he spill the beans without overt threats of legal action against him?
In response to Josh’s blog post about trump covering up something really bad… I came to that conclusion when Comey was fired and trump was heard bragging to Lavrov and Kislyak in the Oval Office that a weight had been lifted off him. I thought then that treason had been committed and covered up. I am still of that opinion. Yes the “T” word is a strong one but I see no other way around this … unless trump is just hyper over reacting.
I wonder if he’s still smarting from being ostracized by pretty much the entire Republican apparatus, and will use his testimony to get some sweet, sweet revenge? Lordy, I hope so. I hope he goes in looking to take them all down.
I hope goes in looking to take them all down.
I think Mueller should ply Bannon with a case of Scotch left anonymously at Bannon’s back door.
Glad to hear that the fat is going onto the fiery coals of the Weber grill soon.
If there’s any funny business he knows about, and I assume there’s tons, I have to guess the Mueller people have at least a suspicion too and know the right questions to ask. And I don’t think he can withhold evidence just to be nice to his benefactors without putting his own neck in the noose. I don’t mean to compliment the grandiose featherhead when I say that for all his many and deep flaws, I think he’s got the sense not to do stuff that could put him in jail. It seems he was an occasional voice of reason in that White House, which again isn’t saying much. So I think if they ask him a question he’ll answer it honestly simply to keep himself on the streets. That’s my read on how he’ll handle this.
I can’t get a read on it, but if it’s true that Bannon is basically a bomb thrower and an arsonist who just wants to blow up the world then I would think he plans to tell all. He may not be the one to give them PP himself, but I imagine he’d be pretty thrilled to give them Junior and Jarvanka.
I do believe it’s money laundering, it’s criminal and if the justice department won’t pursue Schniderman will. Happily.
TRump and his first three spawn know this and are scared shitless.
“Mueller investigators want to ask Bannon about the firings of FBI Director James Comey and National Security Adviser Michael Flynn…”
But Bannon has so much more to share under oath:
“This is all about money laundering,” Wolff quotes Bannon saying. “Their path to [expletive] Trump goes right through Paul Manafort, Don Jr. and Jared Kushner.” For good measure he added, “It’s as plain as a hair on your face.”
“It goes through Deutsche Bank and all the Kushner stuff,” Bannon adds. “The Kushner stuff is greasy. They’re going to go right through that.” (He used a nastier word than “stuff,” but let’s keep things family-friendly around here.)
Bannon then roasts the Trump White House for how ill-prepared it is to take on Mueller’s team: “They’re sitting on a beach trying to stop a Category Five.”
And for the February schedule:
Perhaps they can schedule Ivanka on Valentine’s Day, because…Lust Object.
And schedule Trump on Presidents’ Day, because…someone has to keep irony alive.
That’s my thinking too. Bannon was quiet while at the White House because that position benefitted his long term goal of destroying the planet and the infrastructure that keeps society functioning, but now that he’s out, he’s looking for another system to worm his way in to and if the Mercer’s (or anyone else) aren’t part of that plan, I don’t think he has any motivation to protect them, and it wouldn’t surprise me if he’s willing to offer up information without being provoked if he thinks it benefits himself.
I hope they route him in through a Fabreeze Spritzer …
Otherwise the interview may be short ----
That’s what I mean about him. It’s like in high school, you’re out with your buds and a cop stops the car. For all he’s a troublemaker, Bannon seems like he’d have the sense to keep it to yes officer, no officer, we sure will officer and like that. He wouldn’t be the one to start arguing and mouthing off. That’s Trump, not Bannon.
TrumpCo after Mueller is done with them.
I hope.