Exclusive: Bannon says I'm sorry
Source: Axios
Battered by the backlash from Michael Wolff's book, Steve Bannon is trying to make amends with the Trump family, providing a statement to Axios that expresses "regret" to President Trump and praises his son, Donald Trump Jr.
"Donald Trump, Jr. is both a patriot and a good man. He has been relentless in his advocacy for his father and the agenda that has helped turn our country around."
"My support is also unwavering for the president and his agenda as I have shown daily in my national radio broadcasts, on the pages of Breitbart News and in speeches and appearances from Tokyo and Hong Kong to Arizona and Alabama."
"President Trump was the only candidate that could have taken on and defeated the Clinton apparatus. I am the only person to date to conduct a global effort to preach the message of Trump and Trumpism; and remain ready to stand in the breech for this president's efforts to make America great again."
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Read more: https://www.axios.com/scoop-bannon-sends-regret-to-trump-1515329924-dbfe9439-59e0-4773-8d3d-079e5ee2b493.html
Bannon's statement goes on to say that his comments about the Trump Tower meeting "came from my life experiences as a Naval officer" and were really aimed at Manafort, who "should have known they are duplicitous, cunning and not our friends."
He reiterates what he said on "60 Minutes": "There was no collusion and the investigation is a witch hunt."
And finally he says he regrets that his "delay in responding to the inaccurate reporting" has distracted from Trump's "historic accompliishments."
TEB
(12,716 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Chicago1980
(1,968 posts)Grab your ankles and open your mouth wide Steve.
Another bitch bowing down to his owner.
Botany
(70,291 posts)The Mercers were paying for his protection and said they were going to take that away
and Bannon has made lots of enemies in his slimy life. BTW Putin plays for keeps.
*******
Bannon just said that he was taken out of context when he said, Don Jr.'s meeting w/the
Russian in June of 2016 @ Trump Tower was an act of treason.
delisen
(6,039 posts)Last edited Mon Jan 8, 2018, 02:52 AM - Edit history (1)
groundloop
(11,488 posts)But yes, it's curious how Bannon is all of a sudden kissing 45*s ass again. Is it because he's afraid of something or simply doesn't want to be left out of the limelight (or is it slimlight?) ?
delisen
(6,039 posts)EricMaundry
(1,619 posts)CrispyQ
(36,225 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)
.right about his motivations. Breitbart is on the line for him.
hlthe2b
(101,714 posts)I don't see his former supporters coming back to him.
(not that I care, of course, but I do hate that by default and direct comparison, it makes Trump look "stronger" to his deplorables)
I posted the same below.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Bannon doesn't strike me as the type to walk back or apologize for anything. If anything he tends to double down when challenged. Trump & Co. must have something very damaging on him.
PragmaticDem
(320 posts)Jarqui
(10,110 posts)He's attempting to change the direction of them but no denial remains a problem for Trump and therefore, him. This bolsters the credibility of Wolff's book.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)An open question if they are bad now. Manafort should have known but the Trumps should not have? Yeah,thats not how this works.
underpants
(182,273 posts)Drag him around like tin cans.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)They have one policy and one policy only: self enrichment. This is their god. All else can be sacrificed. They will willingly sacrifice the nation and the future of our children for their own greed. Their is no hope for justice as long as they rule. It is, in my estimation, imperative for the future of the nation that the Republicans be soundly defeated in the up coming elections.
Greedy, self protecting scumbags. They do not represent anyone but themselves. That has always been the gop mantra "Show me the Money" So what if it is Russian money? They took it anyway, now they have to meekly stand behind their dear leader and pretend he is "normal"!!! Rand Paul was on TV this morning, praising tRump and talking about the buerocrats (?) and the republicans. Is this their new insult, replacing democrats (not democratic) I can understand why his neighbor beat him up. Smug ass.
GeorgeGist
(25,294 posts)you expose all the vile creatures who feed off the scum at the top.
dalton99a
(81,065 posts)highplainsdem
(48,727 posts)They were probably ALL worried about losing their jobs.
djacq
(1,633 posts)Blue Wave 2018.
Paladin
(28,202 posts)God is good.
ProfessorGAC
(64,417 posts)Not a denial but a mea culpa! It's all out there now, you dimwits! Get out of my White House!
It ain't your house.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Probably.
turbinetree
(24,632 posts)Bannon's statement goes on to say that his comments about the Trump Tower meeting "came from my life experiences as a Naval officer" and were really aimed at Manafort, who "should have known they are duplicitous, cunning and not our friends."
So Steve when you went through naval training did they or did they not say that if a foreign power makes contact with a US. citizens that you are "suppose" to contact the FBI, did you or did you not convey that military training on yourself and these traitors?
Because apparently your a traitor, since you were part of the foreign apparatus in that traitors white house, you basically failed in that requirement, and you even sat next to one of the people in a chair that pled guilty to lying on his forms of being a foreign agent, when the main sexual predator with an ego about as big as him, was ranting with the Australian government do you remember that Steve....................have you seen the pictures....................your a fucking idiot also.....................
FUCK YOU and your deplorable's, and oh by the way you still supported a man that molested children------------what does that say about your character .......................not much, so what jelly or lubricants do have on hand.....................
Scruffy1
(3,239 posts)Without that he's broke. They are the money that pays for Breitbart and I don't think he has any dough. Without the Mercers he would be forced to maybe live on a Social Security check. The Mercers are totally unlikable assholes, but the world will kiss your ass if you have money.
delisen
(6,039 posts)Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)That's a fast turnaround, but then all they had to wait for was for the book to take off...gotta replace that income that the Mercers jerked away.
Bannon will prostitute himself to someone else with deep pockets. He seems to be in that circle of tax dodgers and thieves. I'm just surprised he hasn't been found in a dark alley where he tripped and hit his head really, really bad.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)he sleeps in an alley! He never looks clean. Was he really a naval officer?
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)he no longer bathes. If he looked that way in the navy, I would think he got thrown overboard quite often. They sleep in pretty close quarters.
I think he was just born greasy. Then, again, being greasy makes it easier to slip out of difficult situations. Just thinkin'.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)with the person that's in power.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,482 posts)Freethinker65
(9,932 posts)Unbelievable waste of time.
Contrived twists and turns of a soap opera...perhaps Trump and the WH deserve credit for turning the administration into something worthy of a reality tv series- where everything is manipulated and edited for maximum effect...plenty of twists and turns to keep ones interest and appetite for more, simple dialog and sound bites for those with short attention spans, the true meaning lost on most observers just along for the entertainment.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,481 posts)Steve Bannon's all-of-a-sudden realization of his fuck-up comes at no surprise once the Mercer money was cut off. Judas Iscariot sold his soul for far less than what Bannon did.
What Steve Bannon and others did was expose the Trump Administration and White House for what it really is......a retched hive of scum and villainy.
There is no putting the Genie back in the bottle, Steve.
MFM008
(19,776 posts)My copy of Fat and Furious comes tomorrow.
alp227
(31,961 posts)FakeNoose
(32,345 posts)... it's always somebody else that gets screwed, isn't it Steve?
So this is what it takes to get back in the Mercers' good graces?
Vinca
(50,170 posts)He must have sent flowers and chocolates, too, plus offered to scrub Don's back until the end of time. It was such a disgusting display of groveling, I almost felt sorry for Bannon. Almost.
duforsure
(11,882 posts)Begging for forgiveness and changing his claims. He did accuse Jr, Kushner, and Manifort of treasonous acts attending this meeting, and he's right , they are, and that's what scared trump and the mercers so much they had to stop this asap. He just helped the case against him and all his people. He's like trump and will sometimes say anything, but this time it was the truth, that's what scares them the most.
malchickiwick
(1,474 posts)Javaman
(62,439 posts)this is all part of the grand soap opera and to keep the nation of balance.
fuck the both of them.
BumRushDaShow
(127,298 posts)"...and you WILL atone (am I getting through to you Mr. Bannon?)."
spanone
(135,633 posts)bdtrppr6
(796 posts)to turn a phrase.
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)I guess he was just drunk or stoned.
VOX
(22,976 posts)Probably following a script this is the prodigal son scene. And the public genuflecting is right on cue.
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)Dumping Trump was a great career saving move for Bannon. Saying "I am sorry" will cost Bannon his alt-right support. It makes him look weak. Or scared.
Which raises another possibility---are so many people so eager to talk to Mueller, because he can get them federal protection? In Russia, all Mueller's witnesses would be dead. But it will be very hard for the Kremlin and Russian mob to kill them if the FBI/CIA and NSA are protecting them.
And to any VIP's who have been thinking about allying with Putin and Russia, keep in mind that Putin does not care if your last name is Koch. He will have you rubbed out if you cross him. That is the real difference between Russia and the USA.
no_hypocrisy
(45,771 posts)Who's Sorry Now?
I'm Sorry
titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)TalenaGor
(1,103 posts)DallasNE
(7,392 posts)RKP5637
(67,031 posts)Motley13
(3,867 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,759 posts)which are what? Dismantling slowly this country piece by piece?? Just fuck this Trump Administration, they can go to whatever the hell they think hell is.
Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)They wont care. Theyll still betray you.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,482 posts)reality he's a money grovelling pathetic excuse for a hack. The right wing is so totally devoid of principle that any piece of shit gets their 15 minutes only to get "cucked" by the stupidest wanna be gangster in the history of our government. Ms. Mercer just pantsed this motherfucker for all the world to see.
wiggs
(7,788 posts)of serious issues.
Additionally just with this issue, they don't talk about the book's observations in the context of all the prior suspicions of incompetence, flawed character, small mind, limited ability etc that biographers, psychologists, former friends that all can plainly see. Because that would end the debate.
BigmanPigman
(51,430 posts)since he came down the folder escalator. The MSM gave him the election on a gold platter. Ratings and $$$$$ controls the MSM and not just Fux Ruse. They never discussed the issues with Hillary and she tried to focus the country on that during her entire campaign. MSM is as guilty as social media (Fuckerberg, etc.) for allowing this to happen to our country. The NYT is still continuing to do it to a degree as well as the reporters at the daily pressers. No hard questions, no standing up to their "false facts". LIES is the word! Use it correctly and apply it when appropriate. Geez!
Internationalist
(27 posts)Turns out the leader of the alt-right is the biggest cuck of them all.
These jokers had their moment in the sun, like the neo-cons post 9/11, where everyone took them seriously as a political force. They too will be exposed as paper tigers, albeit anime watching, socially awkward and neck beard sporting paper tigers.