go after my family, and he has been going after his family for about a year now, and it raises the question is it the russia investigation, the reason bannon called that meeting treasonous, and is that why trump reacted the way he has. i think the president could come out looking a bit better amonths establishment republicans if they have to choose to side with bannon or donald trump, and mitch mcconnell has not been a great friend to bannon and not fondly of him and this may reinforce the support for the president. i think in the long-term, though, this book is not going to be a best-seller here, and it s going to sell overseas, and a lot of those are trying to figure out what is going on in the president s head, and hearing his top aides calling him names does not bode well for
presidential enable lure and poor-fish flunky. you take that quote for what it is here, but on the larger issue of steve bannon commenting on the issues, which may be part of the robert mueller investigation, does he become a potentially important witness, susan? he s talking about hearsay things, and whether or not mueller feels like he s going to need to get bannon s personal statement, who knows? what it does raise the issue of and is bread crumbs for mueller s team, the divergence between statements being made to the public and the reality. it s not a crime for the president to lie to the american people or to a new york times reporter but it s a crime for the president or his staff to lie to the fbi or congressional investigators, so i think what this shows is the difference
the massive infighting that takes away from a good point ron made which is the white house s ability to roll back obama regulations and appease the base. bannon is in trouble for mouthing off against the president himself, so he says what he wants and it has gotten him in trouble. continuing on that theme and the use of the words death match between them, let me just read this. part of the now deep animosity between the family. this was not in other words merely an internal policy war, it was a death match for bannon to live, kutcher would have to be wholly discredited and jailed. it speaks to the president s argument that i am outraged about the book because you can t
congress, and that weekend before comey was fired he watch add repeat of comey s testimony before congress with jared kushner, and i don t think they were looking for hillary clinton tidbits in that testimony, and that was focusing on russia and whether or not the president was being investigated. the issue of impeachment, bannon apparently thought impeachment was coming or likely. bannon s tone veered from the desperation to resignation, if he fires mueller it just brings the impeachment quicker, why not, let s do it, what am i going to do? am i going to save him? he s donald trump. that s an appal kocalyptic pn bannon s part, and it s bullish on bannon s part to argue that