Lawyers on behalf of President Donald Trump sent a letter Wednesday night to former White House Chief Strategist Stephen Bannon demanding he refrain from making disparaging comments against the president and his family.
The letter comes after excerpts from a forthcoming book by journalist Michael Wolff were made public Wednesday, causing a stir…
Earlier Wednesday, Trump hit back at Bannon in scathing comments, saying that… “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 Bannon is running for president:
President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Steve Bannon has assembled a ‘rump’ – or insignificant – campaign operation for the 2020 presidential election, Michael Wolff’s explosive new book about Trump’s first year in office reveals.
Bannon’s small operation includes meeting with conservative leaders, traveling the country and finding campaign backers as a way to prepare for a 2020 presidential run, Wolff revealed in his book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.
Now back at Breitbart after taking credit for electing Trump, Bannon is meeting with conservative leaders to ‘kiss the a** and pay homage to all the gray-beards’ to prepare for ‘when I am president’, Wolff claims.
Among those in Bannon’s corner are believed to be some of Trump’s top 2016 backers, including Sheldon Adelson, Robert and Rebekah Mercer, Bernie Marcus and Peter Thiel.
Something here is clashing with my general perceptions. Bannon is not this stupid, Trump know the media lies and would never believe this, and none of those conservative leaders who supported Trump last time are so dumb as to think Trump might lose to Bannon. Nobody is abandoning Trump and joining Bannon in 2020.
There are several possibilities. Bannon has had an aneurysm, and is now totally retarded. The book author lied, and has successfully stirred everyone up enough to trigger some fighting. I’ve had a stroke and this is all my brain misfiring. Or there is something more we do not know going on. I suspect the last option is probably true. Bannon may have said this, Trump responded the way he did, and it is all happening to play the media in some way in the future. You can probably see how these events would benefit Trump in the future, if you map everything out that will come of them.
As for the book, I’ve seen people saying the author is known for inventing quotes and making things up. Here are the big claims of the book, so you don’t have to buy it:
20 MOST JAW-DROPPING CLAIMS IN EXPLOSIVE TRUMP BOOK
•Steve Bannon described Don Jr’s Trump Tower meeting with Russians as ‘treasonous and unpatriotic’ and thinks he will ‘crack like an egg’ under the pressure of the Russia investigation
•Bannon said there’s ‘zero’ chance Donald Trump didn’t know about the meeting and said Don Jr likely ‘walked them to his father’s office’
•First Lady Melania Trump openly wept on the night her husband won the election – and the tears ‘were not of joy’
•The whole campaign from the top down thought Trump would lose and everyone had planned for defeat, with Trump himself planning a TV network because he would be ‘the most famous man in the world’
•Trump and Melania sleep in separate bedrooms and he demanded a lock on his bedroom door against the wishes of the Secret Service
•Trump orders McDonald’s so he’s not poisoned, told staff not to touch his toothbrush and strips his own bedsheets
•Trump regularly sits in bed eating a cheeseburger at 6.30pm while calling his friends and watching three TVs
•Rupert Murdoch called Trump a ‘f***ing idiot’ after a phone call and billionaire backer Tom Barrack said ‘he’s not only crazy, he’s stupid’
•Trump’s aides say he doesn’t read and ‘for all practical purposes is no more than semi-literate’
•Trump would try to bed his friends’ wives by goading their husbands to cheat while the wife listened in on speakerphone
•White House Communications Director Hope Hicks dated married Corey Lewandowski and Trump later told her: ‘You’re the best piece of tail he’ll ever have.’
•The president called acting attorney general Sally Yates a ‘c***’ after she refused to enforce his immigration ban
•Sean Spicer, then press secretary, said ‘you can’t make this s*** up’ after his first briefing and went on adopt the phrase as his personal mantra
•Trump tells the same stories three times in ten minutes and forgot a succession of old friends’ names at a Mar-a-Lago party
•He called Jared Kushner a ‘suck-up’ and said he should never have let Ivanka and her husband move to Washington
•Among his verdicts on his staff: Bannon ‘looked like s***’, Reince Priebus was a midget and Kellyanne Conway was a crybaby
•Among his staff’s verdicts on him: ‘dope’, ‘dumb as s***’, ‘hopeless idiot’, ‘just a f***ing fool’, ‘lost his mind’, ‘incapable of functioning in his job’
•Trump wondered what a ‘golden shower’ was after reading reports about the notorious Russian dossier
•Trump offered to marry Morning Joe’s Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough – and mocked Jared Kushner for saying he’d do it
•Ivanka Trump jokes with friends about her father’s hair secrets: He had a scalp reduction, combs over from the sides, and uses Just for Men badly
If you have ever tried to promote a book, you will have noticed there are two types of books, because there are two environments. There is the K-environment, where money is scarce, and people only spend it on a book if they have good reason to believe the product they receive will give them excellent value in understanding the world honestly. Then there is the r-environment, where money is freely available, there is no cost to wasting it, and people buy whatever happens onto their radar, so a book with shocking, but false claims that gets everyone talking will flag amygdalae, be remembered, and massively outsell a book with honest claims which garners little attention.
This produces two types of books. One is composed of assiduously constructed quality, and designed to measurably enrich your life. This book will sell well in K-selection. Then there is the r-selected media-machine product that is total bullshit, but which contains such shocking bullshit that the media-machine can talk about it endlessly, and everyone will remember it. That book will sell millions, and the author will never have to work again, if it is marketed in an environment of r-selection.
This book strikes me as that kind of work when it talks about Melania crying, or Donald’s daughter insulting him, or Donald demeaning people, being illiterate, or trying to screw over friends. I’m quite certain, based on my read of those people that none of that can possibly be true. The highest IQ guy in the nation, who has defeated everyone in the political sphere with ease, is not illiterate. He has read a fucking ton of books to get where he is, intellectually.
The end result is, there is probably no way to tell what is truth or fiction in this thing.
The only thing we know for sure is the God Emperor will use it to his advantage to come out on top.
Tell others about r/K Theory, because the God Emperor always wins
Or, in the alternative, reading books just isn’t that damned important and doesn’t really matter.
It’s interesting that they took that narrative to run with, which tells you a lot about them and their level of literacy.
FWIW, this is the same line as “hur hur GWB doesn’t read.” The man was literally married to a librarian.
Bannon sees his brand falling apart. Breitbart is good at adressing frustrated rightwing boomers, but he has no attention with the young crowd. Over the year everyone under 30 moved constantly more and more to the ultra right while Breitbart loses Milo because of his pedo talk, they lose Administrators who get exposed as ultra right wing, and the latest was Paul Nehlen who went on Fash the Nation. So whats left for Bannon? Going back to that “speaking truth to power” stick after he said in 60 Minutes he will support the President from the outside? The guy can’t be trusted.
2018 we have to get rid of this Conservatism Inc. Boomer Garbage.
My head hurts.
Unbelievable behavior out of Bannon. Stevo- if you’re reading this all I can ask is “why?”. Guess we are going to have to buy the book to find out. So Sad, So Sad.
Also, lol at the Mooch, CNN actually had a useful story for once.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk0CZG2RIPo