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deminks

(11,017 posts)
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 11:17 AM Jan 2017

Trumps ex-Breitbart advisor Bannon is drafting executive orders and basically winging it

Two of Donald Trump’s senior advisors — neither of whom has any previous government or legal experience — have reportedly been writing executive orders without any input from the agencies they would effect.

Aides told Politico that Steve Bannon, the president’s chief strategist, and Stephen Miller, the senior White House advisor for policy, have made almost no effort to consult with federal agency lawyers or lawmakers as they wrote executive orders.

Bannon, the former chairman of Breitbart, and Miller, a Republican political operative who’s written most of Trump’s major speeches, are writing many of the orders based on ideas that came from transition officials or “landing teams” who weren’t working in the White House.

The orders have come so quickly, and from seemingly out of nowhere, that aides sometimes aren’t even sure which actions Trump will sign until they cross his desk.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/trumps-ex-breitbart-advisor-bannon-is-drafting-executive-orders-and-basically-winging-it-report/

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Trumps ex-Breitbart advisor Bannon is drafting executive orders and basically winging it (Original Post) deminks Jan 2017 OP
WTF?? blueseas Jan 2017 #1
WTF INDEED! Zoonart Jan 2017 #6
Heritage Foundation Equinox Moon Jan 2017 #13
This was predicted by Mel Brooks LastLiberal in PalmSprings Jan 2017 #2
Perfect malaise Jan 2017 #3
LOL. I've been using the "Harrumph" line for years underpants Jan 2017 #8
They have an agenda worked out. yallerdawg Jan 2017 #4
Likely why Spicer claimed two orders weren't fromthe White House Ms. Toad Jan 2017 #5
Where else would it have come from? underpants Jan 2017 #11
My point is that at yesterday's press conference, Ms. Toad Jan 2017 #16
I'd been wondering about that underpants Jan 2017 #7
I think it means we need to find an obscure Kber Jan 2017 #12
K&R bdamomma Jan 2017 #9
They gave Obama so much shit for signing executive orders. Initech Jan 2017 #10
Bannon is Putin's man in the WH. GliderGuider Jan 2017 #14
Now, aren't a lot of these executive orders NewJeffCT Jan 2017 #15

Zoonart

(11,879 posts)
6. WTF INDEED!
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 11:33 AM
Jan 2017

How is any of this legal and constitutional? It's obvious that the mad king does not even know what he is signing. Is it just me, or does this have to stop right now?

Equinox Moon

(6,344 posts)
13. Heritage Foundation
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 12:25 PM
Jan 2017

The executive branch of government has been outsourced to Heritage Foundation. They have been writing documents since their inception 1973. They, are the steady stream of radical executive orders.

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
4. They have an agenda worked out.
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 11:25 AM
Jan 2017

The "empty vessel" they are filling seeks approving headlines and praise from the "alternate media" which these same guys created for their agenda.

Conservative Republican right-wingers play a long game.

It took three decades to take down Hillary - but they did it.

Ms. Toad

(34,092 posts)
5. Likely why Spicer claimed two orders weren't fromthe White House
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 11:33 AM
Jan 2017

at yesterday's presser, and that he didn't know where they came from.

No one clued him in to Bannon's activities.

underpants

(182,883 posts)
11. Where else would it have come from?
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 11:50 AM
Jan 2017

We saw this a bit during the W years and in Congress from time to time. When we need junkies hear "the government doesn't do anything" we understand it as "the government isn't doing what WE want" but they actually appear to think this stuff is just for show.

BTW by all accounts as miserable of a person as he is, Bannon is regarded as being pretty bright.

Ms. Toad

(34,092 posts)
16. My point is that at yesterday's press conference,
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 05:16 PM
Jan 2017

Spicer essentially accused the press of pulling stuff out of their rear end (Twice in the last 2 days you have asked me about documents that didn't come from the White House.)

My guess is they did come from the Breitbart wing of the White House and Spicer just didn't know about it.

underpants

(182,883 posts)
7. I'd been wondering about that
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 11:44 AM
Jan 2017

These are supposed to go through reviews and consultations on legality, feasibility, and implementation but that's almost impossible at this pace. Add in that they have a skeleton crew of temps filling in positions.

The EO on Obamacare said "ease the burden", no one knew what that meant.

Initech

(100,104 posts)
10. They gave Obama so much shit for signing executive orders.
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 11:49 AM
Jan 2017

At least his benefitted mankind. These are about the worst thing to happen to America.

 

GliderGuider

(21,088 posts)
14. Bannon is Putin's man in the WH.
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 12:31 PM
Jan 2017

He completely agrees with the goals and methods proposed by Aleksandr Dugin, "Putin's Rasputin", who IMO is the architect of this whole mess.

IMO the channel for EOs goes something like this: Dugin -> Putin -> Heritage Foundation -> Bannon.

Bannon is executing a Russian disruption operation.

NewJeffCT

(56,829 posts)
15. Now, aren't a lot of these executive orders
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 12:34 PM
Jan 2017

going to be challenged in court on the grounds that they're UNCONSTITUTIONAL?

I mean, on what grounds can he send the feds into Chicago? On what grounds can he defund the NEA? On what grounds can he silence the free speech of government workers?

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