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So......President Bannon Is The Source Of The Leaks About Jared (Original Post) Me. Jun 2017 OP
That's my best guess. Mme. Defarge Jun 2017 #1
The best outcome would be Guy Whitey Corngood Jun 2017 #2
Yeah, I said when the story broke Warpy Jun 2017 #3
Caught Morning Joe This AM Me. Jun 2017 #7
My guess is that Bannon knows where the bodies are buried. When Time Magazine put Bannon on their politicaljunkie41910 Jun 2017 #29
To Trump the sin wasn't selling the visa's, it was not cutting the Donald in on it. nt TeamPooka Jun 2017 #38
K&R stonecutter357 Jun 2017 #4
Allow me to hold your coats. Turbineguy Jun 2017 #5
What are the odds Jared or an ally leaked that to Scab ? OnDoutside Jun 2017 #6
Could Be Me. Jun 2017 #9
Multi-directional poo flinging ProudLib72 Jun 2017 #8
You forgot on fire poo flinging lindysalsagal Jun 2017 #19
The White House is overrun by shit flinging chimps fighting for dominance Kaleva Jun 2017 #34
I feel that's a good way to get bannon fired Tiggeroshii Jun 2017 #10
more than to Steve Bannon, I would suspect renate Jun 2017 #11
The Mercers are loyal to Steve Bannon. n/t DefenseLawyer Jun 2017 #18
Big Time Me. Jun 2017 #22
This is what you get with a Rotten to the Core administration... iluvtennis Jun 2017 #12
Pretty Bad When a News Commentor bresue Jun 2017 #13
I'm thinking that someone is out to get Bannon... JHB Jun 2017 #14
The Shivs Are Out Me. Jun 2017 #23
I would not be surprised... Kleveland Jun 2017 #15
This message was self-deleted by its author Kathy M Jun 2017 #21
I am not on Twitter TNNurse Jun 2017 #16
It was on Morning Joe, the #2 morning show. So Trump has heard. (Trump watches it.) Honeycombe8 Jun 2017 #25
MJ Kept Repeating It Over & Over All Morning Me. Jun 2017 #26
I know, I just wanted him to have it writing too. TNNurse Jun 2017 #30
trumps got a choice he will have to make soon samnsara Jun 2017 #17
Hard to imagine that going after the son-in-law-daughter-wife-husband is good for one's career..... lindysalsagal Jun 2017 #20
If this is true, it raises a question Mr. Ected Jun 2017 #24
MJ was speaking of directing Trump's agenda & writing his speeches. Honeycombe8 Jun 2017 #27
Here You Go Me. Jun 2017 #32
Bannon is going to take, for his personal use, my and your soc sec money and medicare money Eliot Rosewater Jun 2017 #28
of course President Bannon mercuryblues Jun 2017 #31
This excerpt reinforces the idea that Bannon is Behind publicity of J-rod's current troubles MedusaX Jun 2017 #33
He Should Be Careful Me. Jun 2017 #35
This is getting better and better NastyRiffraff Jun 2017 #36
Freepers hate Jared & Ivanka and love Bannon Kaleva Jun 2017 #37
Let them destroy each other... AntiFascist Jun 2017 #39
Let them eat their own. wildeyed Jun 2017 #40

Warpy

(111,336 posts)
3. Yeah, I said when the story broke
Fri Jun 2, 2017, 03:30 PM
Jun 2017

that I thought Bannon looked like he had canary feathers all over his face.

Let's hope daddyrabbit gets the news about this. Bannon is the one I'd most like to see get his butt brushed out of the White House completely.

Me.

(35,454 posts)
7. Caught Morning Joe This AM
Fri Jun 2, 2017, 03:34 PM
Jun 2017

And was tickled to see how they all made an effort to call out President Bannon

politicaljunkie41910

(3,335 posts)
29. My guess is that Bannon knows where the bodies are buried. When Time Magazine put Bannon on their
Fri Jun 2, 2017, 06:40 PM
Jun 2017

cover as Trump's Brain, Morning Joe then was reporting that Trump didn't like Bannon getting that kind of attention and was on his way out. Obviously he's rebounded, and now it's Jared whose in the hot seat with first his sister and now his uncle using Trump's presidency to sell $500,000 condos in New Jersey to the Chinese and for them to get a VISA and a pass to citizenship with it. (FTR, I do know that what they're hawking is not legal so no one needs to tell me that.)

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
8. Multi-directional poo flinging
Fri Jun 2, 2017, 03:35 PM
Jun 2017

It's all the rage in the WH where everyone sleeps with one eye open except for Maggot who doesn't sleep at all.

renate

(13,776 posts)
11. more than to Steve Bannon, I would suspect
Fri Jun 2, 2017, 05:05 PM
Jun 2017

If only this had happened before the Paris decision instead of today.

iluvtennis

(19,871 posts)
12. This is what you get with a Rotten to the Core administration...
Fri Jun 2, 2017, 05:10 PM
Jun 2017

...it just eats itself from the inside and eventually dies out. There is no "team" in the Trump admin where everyone collaborates and supports each other. Instead you have a group of individuals all jockeying to be the big shit for the emperor.

I love it, let all in the Trump admin out each other and let it die a quick death.

bresue

(1,007 posts)
13. Pretty Bad When a News Commentor
Fri Jun 2, 2017, 05:11 PM
Jun 2017

Has to identify who the WH leakers are on a morning talk show...because Dump as no clue.

Talk about Colonel Klink.....

JHB

(37,161 posts)
14. I'm thinking that someone is out to get Bannon...
Fri Jun 2, 2017, 05:14 PM
Jun 2017

...by leaking he stuff about Bannon leaking about son-in-law-off-the-ol'-block. Someone wants to undermine Big Desk Brannon's profile with Prima Donnie, and going after Smoking Hot Favorite Daughter's hubby will do that.

Of course, both parts can be true. Kremlin Don's Courtier Thunderdome breeds this sort of thing.

Kleveland

(1,257 posts)
15. I would not be surprised...
Fri Jun 2, 2017, 05:22 PM
Jun 2017

If that bloviated, sweaty, alcoholic and melanoma toting fat fascist pig was the source of many so called leaks.

He knows that if you throw the appropriate bone to the press, they will be all over it like flies on sugar.

He is a manipulative bastard, and we know that he is playing the comb-over king like a cheap fiddle, calling the tunes.

They all just need to go, not just Jar Head.

Den of vipers, the lot of 'em.



Response to Kleveland (Reply #15)

TNNurse

(6,929 posts)
16. I am not on Twitter
Fri Jun 2, 2017, 05:50 PM
Jun 2017

but is someone telling Trump that people are saying President Bannon?? That should get a reaction.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
25. It was on Morning Joe, the #2 morning show. So Trump has heard. (Trump watches it.)
Fri Jun 2, 2017, 06:37 PM
Jun 2017

Trump said he quit watching it because they are mean and spiteful & talk about fake news. But I suspect he still watches. Even if he doesn't, he heard from those who do. It's THE morning political show.

lindysalsagal

(20,727 posts)
20. Hard to imagine that going after the son-in-law-daughter-wife-husband is good for one's career.....
Fri Jun 2, 2017, 06:04 PM
Jun 2017

But then, why should anything they do make any sense?

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
24. If this is true, it raises a question
Fri Jun 2, 2017, 06:27 PM
Jun 2017

Why would Bannon throw Kushner under the bus, if he knew there was a connection between Kushner and Trump that would later prove to be collusion with Russia? Leading the prosecutor to the small fish which would lead to the big fish being taken down seems detrimental to Bannon's job security.

Hmm.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
27. MJ was speaking of directing Trump's agenda & writing his speeches.
Fri Jun 2, 2017, 06:39 PM
Jun 2017

MJ says it's obvious because Trump doesn't know politics or how to speak & doesn't have a clue about agendas. He says the climate speech has Bannon all over it.

I don't think MJ said that Bannon is leaking about Kushner. He may have, but I don't remember that.

So any rumors that Bannon's power in the WH has lessened are untrue, is MJ's opinion.

Me.

(35,454 posts)
32. Here You Go
Fri Jun 2, 2017, 06:57 PM
Jun 2017

“I love nothing more than a good reality drama, and nothing is better than the reality-TV star-turned-president and his merry band of misfits. On Friday,
Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough posited an interesting theory, and one that I think I can get behind.

According to Scarborough’s sources inside the White House, White House chief political strategist and proud white nationalist Steve “Papa” Bannon is behind leaks against Trump’s son-in-law, Jared “Got Dem Visas” Kushner.
We know that the two have been openly feuding inside the White House over who gets to pull President Vladimir TrumPutin’s puppet strings. And with Papa Bannon’s connections to the “press” via right-wing site Breitbart, this feels highly likely.

“Steve Bannon was running around from—according to my sources, bragging to journalists a month and a half ago that he didn’t have to worry about Kushner and he was going to sideline Kushner because of Russia, that he had information on the Russian investigation, and that he was going to sideline Jared Kushner,” the MSNBC host said, according to Raw Story.”

http://www.theroot.com/joe-scarborough-steve-bannon-is-leaking-all-jared-kush-1795759280

“Scarborough fingers Bannon as leaker: He’s been ‘bragging’ he would sideline Kushner on Russia

“Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough on Friday revealed that some of his sources within the White House have hinted that White House chief political strategist Steve Bannon is behind some of the damaging leaks against Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner.

Co-host Joe Scarborough on Friday revealed that some of his sources within the White House have hinted that White House chief political strategist Steve Bannon is behind some of the damaging leaks against Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner.

While discussing the latest problems facing Kushner, Scarborough said that people in the White House have told him that Bannon this past April boasted that he wouldn’t have to worry about Kushner much longer thanks to soon-to-be-revealed bombshells about his undisclosed meeting with a Russian bank official.

“Steve Bannon was running around from — according to my sources, bragging to journalists a month and a half ago that he didn’t have to worry about Kushner and he was going to sideline Kushner because of Russia, that he had information on the Russian investigation, and that he was going to sideline Jared Kushner,” Scarborough said.”…cont….

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/scarborough-fingers-bannon-as-leaker-hes-been-bragging-he-would-sideline-kushner-on-russia/

Eliot Rosewater

(31,121 posts)
28. Bannon is going to take, for his personal use, my and your soc sec money and medicare money
Fri Jun 2, 2017, 06:40 PM
Jun 2017

that much is CERTAIN

Will he then kill us, let's just sit here and wait and find out I guess.

mercuryblues

(14,537 posts)
31. of course President Bannon
Fri Jun 2, 2017, 06:53 PM
Jun 2017

is the leaker on Jared. He hates him. All you have to do is read his site to know his opinion of Jews. After their kerfuffle a while ago Bannon was relegated to the back seat. Then Kushner the leaks started.

Bannon knows too much, they can't fire him and so does Kushner.

This is going to be fun to watch. A slow motion train wreck. Jared will start turning on Bannon, if he hasn't already.

MedusaX

(1,129 posts)
33. This excerpt reinforces the idea that Bannon is Behind publicity of J-rod's current troubles
Fri Jun 2, 2017, 07:25 PM
Jun 2017

>snip<
The timing of Kushner’s December meeting with executives from VneshEconomBank, or VEB, at the suggestion of the Russian ambassador, has also raised concerns from government watchdog groups across the political spectrum.

Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute, (which was founded by Trump adviser Stephen Bannon and funded in part by a Trump mega-donor, Rebekah Mercer), said the meeting “had conflict of interest written all over it.”

“You worry about a quid pro quo, you worry about Kushner getting some financial arrangement from a Russian financial institution, and you worry about White House policy being shaped in a way that benefits either those banks or Russia at large,” Schweizer told ABC News. “That's the concern.”

>snip<

http://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/lawmakers-looming-debt-leave-jared-kushner-vulnerable-russian/story?id=47780422

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
36. This is getting better and better
Fri Jun 2, 2017, 07:43 PM
Jun 2017

I trust Katy Tur; Joe Scar not so much, although he's been saying some interesting stuff lately.

Kaleva

(36,340 posts)
37. Freepers hate Jared & Ivanka and love Bannon
Fri Jun 2, 2017, 07:48 PM
Jun 2017

I could see Bannon leaking in order to fire up Trump's base who hate his daughter and son in law and are enemies of Bannon.

AntiFascist

(12,792 posts)
39. Let them destroy each other...
Fri Jun 2, 2017, 08:50 PM
Jun 2017

now if we could only learn that Bannon was working with the Russians on fake news stories, something he would surely have expertise from his time at Breitbart. Did he ever visit one of those Russian compounds?

wildeyed

(11,243 posts)
40. Let them eat their own.
Fri Jun 2, 2017, 09:47 PM
Jun 2017

You know who really gets hurt by the leaks about Jared? Donald Trump. If Bannon is so disloyal that he will do that to his boss, then he is exactly the kind of advisor the Trump deserves.

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