Enraged Trump Personally Dictated Scathing Denouncement of Strategist Steve Bannon The publication o

[riversedge]

wonder if trumps BP has settled down today???



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IT HURTS TO BE ALONE
Enraged Trump Personally Dictated Scathing Denouncement of Strategist Steve Bannon
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-enraged-personally-dictates-scathing-denouncement-of-one-time-top-strategist-steve-bannon

The publication of a new book has caused a massive, immediate fissure within the ranks. And it’s left the president isolated and angry.




Lachlan Markay Asawin Suebsaeng Sam Stein
01.03.18 4:33 PM ET

The publication Wednesday of salacious excerpts from a new book on the Trump presidency re-opened a major fissure between the president and his former campaign CEO and chief strategist Steve Bannon.

Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury appeared, on the surface, to turn Bannon from a pariah to a full-on leper within the Republican Party. After it was reported that Bannon had called the meeting of Trump campaign officials—including Trump’s eldest son—and Russian operatives as “treasonous,” Trump followed suit by saying his one-time consiglieri had lost his mind. Don Jr., former communications director Anthony Scaramucci, and the political operation run by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) all took turns gleefully dancing on the Breitbart chairman’s possible political grave.

Lost in it the circular firing squad, was a far more painful reality for the president himself.

He’s isolated.

Bannon may be persona non grata in the GOP, for this news cycle at least. But it is Trump who is forced to navigate a difficult stretch of his presidency with paper-thin alliances, an increasingly cemented perception that he is well out of his depth, and a conservative press run by individuals either at odds with him or who think he’s a dope.

Inside the White House, a bunker mentality took hold Wednesday. There was a sense of palpable anger at the quotes Bannon gave to Wolff for his book. According to White House sources, Trump personally dictated key parts of the statement bashing his former chief strategist to senior communications staff, including Communications Director Hope Hicks. He was emphatic about including put-downs such as “Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind,” and “Now that he is on his own, Steve is learning that winning isn’t as easy as I make it look. Steve had very little to do with our historic victory...”

[samnsara]

1. maybe he will stroke out. Im starting to pity him..like the old town drunk..

..after awhile its hard to watch such human suffering and you just want to put them somewhere so you don't have to watch the decline.

[saidsimplesimon]

3. pity, no

Save it for those suffering from alcoholism. I want to send the pResident back to his digs in NYC and Fla. It would be impossible to ignore the signs of decline.

[Stuart G]

2. it might be smarter, if Trump just "shut up" .. but that is impossible..

[Irish_Dem]

7. Yes, he would have been much better off to have said nothing.

[peggysue2]

4. Oh, Boo-Hoo

Maybe the Trumpster and his enablers should of thought of the implications of their deceit and greed before launching a fraudulent campaign to win the WH. And getting a foreign adversary to help.

The winning that the Trumpster continually points to is as fraudulent as the man. He deserves to be isolated. He deserves to be a pariah, an Untouchable. Forever.

Never forget; never forgive.

[C_U_L8R]

5. Trump is afraid of losing control

and that his people, not fearing him any longer, will begin sharing all the lurid details

[Irish_Dem]

6. Trump did not dictate the rebuttal letter.

He was ranting and raving and someone wrote it for him.

[riversedge]

8. Well, the article did say--in part.....

[Irish_Dem]

9. Trump was not capable of writing that letter on a good day.

And when he is ranting and raving he could not have composed it.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. This

The dictation was "spit, sputter, crazy, spit, fake, hate, sputter, (throw something now), i'm the best, spit, etc."

Then someone wrote something out that vaguely resembled the rant but with cogent thoughts and good grammar.

[Irish_Dem]

11. Exactly. This is how it happened, I am certain.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

12. I'm surprised people think he didn't write it.

It sounded exactly like one of his unscripted rants on stage when he ditches the teleprompter.