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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Jan 6, 2018, 10:38 AM Jan 2018

Can Steve Bannon Bounce Back?

January 5, 2018 at 6:25 pm EST By Taegan Goddard

Josh Green: “What Bannon did by talking to Wolff for this book — and by extension, probably, talking to me for my book — is pour a can of gasoline over his head and light a match. Trump appears to have broken with him in a way that seems final and ultimate, even tagging him with a dreaded nickname, ‘Sloppy Steve,’ which I think we can all admit is pretty fantastic.”

“Bannon has been in the doghouse before and come back. I hear that he thinks he can come back from this, too. We’ll see; nothing’s ever quite impossible in Trump’s world. You can never say never.”

“As Bannon has told people in the past, Trump is entirely transactional. But if he loses his platform at Breitbart News, then it’s hard for me to see how he’ll be able to wield the kind of influence that I describe in “Devil’s Bargain,” and that he seemed to have regained after leaving the White House last year.”


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https://politicalwire.com/2018/01/05/can-steve-bannon-bounce-back/

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uponit7771

(90,347 posts)
2. Bannon isn't away, Bannon ... IS ... the alt right racist bastard who's the true believer Red Don...
Sat Jan 6, 2018, 10:45 AM
Jan 2018

... is never the true believer in anything

jmowreader

(50,559 posts)
8. If Milo Yiannopoulos bounced back, so can Steve Bannon
Sat Jan 6, 2018, 02:46 PM
Jan 2018

If Breitbart cans him, no problem...Peter Thiel’s planned RW network needs people, and InfoWars would take him. I’m not worried about this guy’s resiliency.

 

Kirk Lover

(3,608 posts)
11. I'm pretty sure that Bloated Bannon has a plan. He's not just bouncing like a pinball like
Sat Jan 6, 2018, 03:38 PM
Jan 2018

his former bud. A byproduct of his ultimate plan will favor the resistance.

highplainsdem

(48,996 posts)
12. Not that I really care, but I think he can. Bannon is smarter than Trump (though not as smart as
Sat Jan 6, 2018, 03:42 PM
Jan 2018

he thinks he is), and I don't believe he'd be playing so obvious a role in undermining Trump unless he thought Trump's presidency would be over soon. He may have been cooperating with Mueller for months already.

Of course if Trump and his GOP enablers succeed in turning the US into a banana republic, Bannon's finished...unless he can flatter his way back into Trump's good graces. Trump's dumb enough to fall for it, but Jared and Ivanka would fight like hell to stop that.

ProfessorGAC

(65,060 posts)
13. Who Cares?
Sat Jan 6, 2018, 03:44 PM
Jan 2018

Let them eat their own!
BTW: Does anybody feel safer knowing that idiot was an intelligence officer? The bar is far too low!

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