This has nothing to do with the President’s best interests and has everything to do with Gordon Gekko finding staffers loyal to himself and consolidating his own power and influence.
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“I’m going to fire everybody, that’s how I’m going to do it,” Scaramucci said, adding that he “a thousand percent" has the authority from President Trump to do so.
“You’re either going to stop leaking or you’re going to get fired,” he added. “If I got to get this thing down to me and [White House press secretary] Sarah Huckabee [Sanders], then the leaking will stop.”
Scaramucci, who was wearing blue-tinted sunglasses, a dark suit and purple tie, issued a challenge to White House staffers, threatening that he is “gonna put ‘em out on Pennsylvania Avenue" if the leaking doesn’t end.
“Do you want to sell postcards to the tourists outside the gate or do you want to work in the West Wing? What do you want to do?” he asked.
Kellyanne Conway, counselor to Trump, confirmed that Scaramucci convened a meeting with the communications staff on Monday during which he warned them about leaks but offered “amnesty” if they came forward about past disclosures.
***Confess your sins.***
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Scaramucci Looks to Ax Disloyal WH Aides
Dear Mr. Mooch: According to my arborist, when pruning trees, it is best to start at the top. Just sayin’.
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Or a Fauxhouse?
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You left a comma out, right after the word ‘White’.
“…And everyone must wear Trump Loyalty ™ underwear everyday. And wear it on the outside so we can check.”
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In the interest of ‘small government’, why stop at two? Neither he nor Huckabee have anything meaningful to communicate, so close down altogether.
“This underwear is…um…kinda grabby…”
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That or Bannon outside burning crosses…
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Nope. He is just a money-is-all-that-matters Hedge-Fund guy with a dash of Dictator thrown in.
He relishes having POWER over people as it stokes his EGO, just like the Orange Menace.
Nothing brings eyeballs like controversy… so we get Trump & Co. 24/7… meanwhile our Congress has passed 42 egregious little bills in the background (which the president has gleefully signed) gutting all kinds of rules designed to protect us from corporate (and government) malfeasance.
On the one hand, you might think that because it’s not in the news, people don’t know about it. But in truth, We the People doing the protesting, are gathering in the background, coordinating, and the knowledge/participation pool is growing.
We had two substantial (for Boise/Idaho) climate-related protests here in the state capital that went unreported even by local news. But thousands showed up for the first, and double that for the second, and we’re coordinating nationally. Our protests were mirrored all over the country in city after city. The press may not be talking about it, but it’s a growing movement of disillusioned patriots, and it ain’t the extremist “tea party”…
So don’t worry. The MSM may not be talking about it, but we know it’s happening, and spreading, and that’s what matters most. They would be wise not to ignore us much longer!
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Well, I keep having visions of the 1973 “Saturday Night Massacre” that sunk Nixon in the end, except this time we don’t have a SINGLE “honorable Republican” in the entire Congress to go to the President and tell him he needs to resign.
As Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) is said to have stated: “History does not repeat itself, but it often Rhymes.”
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Well Sessions is already getting royally fucked by Trump - he’s gone after him just about every day. So what is Bannon waiting for? He has to know he’s on the list.
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Good post, but ixnay on nominating Christie. Kushner has a grudge against the former US Attorney who sent his daddy to prison, which is why he was suddenly removed as head of the transition once Trump was unexpectedly elected.
Also, re: granting pardons to anybody who could testify against him…he might, but that could backfire. As has been widely reported recently, those people can still be subpoenaed and required to testify, and if they’ve been pardoned, they can’t plead the fifth.
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I can’t remember where I read it but somewhere it was suggested that this is likely Bannon’s only chance to advance his personal agenda so he’s hanging on with that in mind. On second thought maybe some podcast or other.
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I wish I hope I wish I hope I wish I hope I wish I hope I wish I hope I wish I hope I wish I hope I wish I hope…
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Too little, too late I’m afraid. We’ve already gotten a glimpse of his clear participation and ‘aiding and abetting’, so he isn’t going to weasel out of it.
If impeachment doesn’t appear on the horizon soon I’d expect Pence to resign first, just to try and douse the flames before they consume him.
But again too little, too late. He has to be in the crosshairs of Mueller’s investigations already…
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Yes. That is the LAW, but when has that ever constrained anything Trump has done. He considers himself and his entire family ABOVE the law.
He will pardon them, and then they will refuse to testify by claiming they have immunity or some bullshit idea, and that will drag through the courts for years before it is resolved, if it ever is.
I would not put it past him to pardon himself either, or to use the 25th amendment to temporarily step aside and have Pence pardon him then Pence announces Trump is now “cured” and can be President again so he can then Pardon Pence and every Cabinet member who voted to exercise the 25th amendment.
I can’t see him willingly giving power over him to someone like that however. His Ego would never allow it, that and his paranoia that Pence might double-cross him and stay in power by offering his ass for prosecution. He would then turn on everybody and spill the beans on Pence and company in that case just to spite them.
Like I said, we are well and truly fucked.
It might work out about the same. If you remember, the SNM was in October '73; the “honorable Republican(s)” didn’t go to Nixon until August of '74, and only because by then the political pressure was great enough to ensure that votes were there for him to be impeached & convicted.
Frankly I’m hoping for a similar timeline; right now the scandal is slowing things down, thereby limiting some of the damage this Congress & administration can do. If Trump is impeached & convicted too soon and Pence takes over with a GOP Congress, I hate to think what they’ll do.
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That could totally be true. I don’t know - one thing about Bannon is that he isn’t talky, unlike most of the rest of them.