tragic events in charlottesville. if president trump is coming to phoenix to announce a pardon for former sheriff joe arpaio, then it will be clear that his true intent is to enflame emotions and further divide our nation. last weekend president trump seemed to hint he might pardon arpaio, convicted of refusing to follow a judge s order barring him from racially profiling latinos. you might be surprised to find out who else is condemning white supremacists steve bannon. the president s chief strategist calling them a collection of clowns. a collection of clowns and losers. this was in an interview with the progressive magazine american prospect. he also refers to them as a fringe element. bannon is the former editor of the far-right news website, breitbart, his links to the alt-right. some say he s given it oxygen and given it a platform. a source says he did not believe he was being interviewed on the record when he spoke to the magazine s co-founder, robert cutner, this week.
would do when he returns to the killing machine of breitbart. it is a killing machine. they pick their targets. you see what they re doing at the moment to mcmaster, the national security adviser. i guarantee you if he gets fired from the white house, breitbart will go thermonuclear on this administration and go after people like gary cohn. they re already going after him. you ain t seen nothing yet. jonathan, think of general kelly. the least of his day yesterday and by all accounts, he has instituted so many new systems and discipline in the west wing, closing the door of the oval office during the day. so drop byes can t visit. but maybe the smallest decision he had to make yesterday was telling the boss, okay, this is infrastructure. you re going to be joined by your treasury secretary, your economic director. and your transportation secretary. we re going to talk about infrastructure. we have these twos colorful charts that really don t mean much to the naked eye. and we re goin
asked to be off the record. all of that conversation is there for you to see. what s interesting, the website crashed yesterday. so many people were trying to read that interview with bannon and/or tweet being it. talking about it on line. actually the face you couldn t get to it for a while. let s dismiss the notion that steve bannon, what once ran breitbart, doesn t know when he s on and off the record. that s utterly ridiculous. we shouldn t give that any oxygen. this article was eye opening in how he basically dared the president to fire him, underminding in the state department undermining in the state department, defense. he said democrats talking about race and identity issues, he said as long as they are doing that, he can beat them. distract them, and he can beat them. all right. charlottesville still grieving, but trying to heal. this little light of mine i m gonna let it shine let it shine
former now white house communications can director and the guy who ran breitbart both getting on the phone with reporters. shocked that journalists are recording them. shocked that they get quoted without saying you know, can we talk off the record. this is just extraordinary. it does speak to how eager people close to the president are to leak their version of events and their version of the trump presidency to anybody who will listen. jonathan, if the stories are true that the president is feeling pressure to fire steve bannon, two points there. a, this will certainly give them air cover. but the second point is, the president s reported reluctance because of what bannon knows, his mouthpiece, and how dangerous he can be outside the white house is also contained in these quotes. when speaking, he speaks his mind. yes, but i think there s
white house official saying that the president was scared and anxious to get rid of steve bannon because of the damage he could do on the outside. i don t know who gave that quote but i d be willing to bet my life savings it was one of bannon s enemies because they know the surest way to get fired up in firing steve bannon is for someone top question his mass masculinity, saying he s scared, it s something he wouldn t want to do. i suspect that was a mischievious quote. people are concerned what bannon would do when he returns to the killing machine of breitbart. it is a killing machine. they pick their targets. you see what they re doing at the moment to mcmaster, the national security adviser. i guarantee you if he gets fired from the white house, breitbart will go thermknow nuclear on this administration and go after people like gary cohn. they re already going after him. you ain t seen nothing yet.