U.S. President Trump Facing A 'Coup': Bannon
Source: Reuters
By Crispian Balmer, 1 hr. ago.
U.S. President Donald Trump is facing a "coup", former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon told Reuters, pointing to an anonymous column in the New York Times detailing resistance within the Trump administration. "What you saw the other day was as serious as it can get. This is a direct attack on the institutions," Bannon said during a flying visit to Italy. "This is a coup, okay".
The column was published on Wednesday and was written by an unnamed senior administration official, the New York Times said. The writer slammed Trump's "amorality" and said: "Many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations."
Bannon said the last time a U.S. president had been challenged in such a fashion was during the American Civil War when General George B. McClellan clashed with the then president, Abraham Lincoln.
"This is a crisis. The country has only ever had such a crisis in the summer of 1862 when General McClellan and the senior generals, all Democrats in the Union Army, deemed that Abraham Lincoln was not fit and not competent to be commander in chief," Bannon said...Read More...
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/us-president-trump-facing-a-coup-bannon/ar-BBN4B8O?li=BBnb7Kz
Bannon was fired by Trump in August 2017 after he fell out with the president's more mainstream advisers over his efforts to bend the GOP to his own economic nationalist agenda.
Bannon said he had resigned from his post, and told CBS at the time that the "Republican establishment" was looking to nullify the 2016 election and neuter Trump.
"There is a cabal of Republic establishment figures who believe Donald Trump is not fit to be president of the United States. This is a crisis," Bannon said in Rome. "I am not a conspiracy guy ... I have said there is no deep state. It is an in-your-face state."
"The first Republican president survived in office, demoted McClellan, ended slavery, won the war and became an American icon beloved of liberals and conservatives alike and often rated by historians in the top two or three occupants of the White House. Trump, the 45th president, regularly invokes Honest Abe as a rare predecessor able to match up to his achievements." https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/09/bannon-trump-crisis-abraham-lincoln
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)that shithole is unfit. And the coup is coming from within the WH.
EarthFirst
(2,904 posts)NYT; Cheney; Bannon...
He may never get into Muellers talons.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)groundloop
(11,522 posts)Damn, Bannon is starting to get a bit boorish in his attempts to extend his 15 minutes. Go back to your parent's basement Steven.
Le Grand Pronounceur
(78 posts)ZZenith
(4,126 posts)Donald Honest Abe Trump.
bucolic_frolic
(43,281 posts)SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)He certainly does look chunkier that a couple of months ago. Most of his day consists of watching television. That's it. I wouldn't call him a couch potato, he's more of a couch pumpkin. Couch potatoes never reach the size of Trump.
I'd say he's packed on a good 20 pounds since the beginning of summer. Eating junk food and sitting on the couch. Where's the stroke, the heart attack? They must have his blood thinned out beyond belief.
appalachiablue
(41,170 posts)"In 1862, a tortured relationship ends when President Abraham Lincoln removes General George B. McClellan from command of the Army of the Potomac. McClellan ably built the army in the early stages of the war but was a sluggish and paranoid field commander who seemed unable to muster the courage to aggressively engage Confederate General Robert E. Lees Army of Northern Virginia.
McClellan was a promising commander who served as a railroad president before the war. In the early stages of the conflict, troops under McClellans command scored several important victories in the struggle for western Virginia. Lincoln summoned Young Napoleon, as some called the general, to Washington, D.C., to take control of the Army of the Potomac a few days after its humiliating defeat at the Battle of First Bull Run, Virginia in July 1861.
Over the next nine months, McClellan capably built a strong army, drilling his troops and assembling an efficient command structure. However, he also developed extreme contempt for the president, and often dismissed Lincolns suggestions out of hand. In 1862, McClellan led the army down Chesapeake Bay to the James Peninsula, southeast of the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia. During this campaign, he exhibited the timidity and sluggishness that later doomed him." https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/lincoln-removes-mcclellan
Lincoln meets Gen. McClellan- 'Little Mac,' after the bloody Battle of Antietam, Md. Oct. 1862.
scipan
(2,356 posts)Also, there was the time when Schlesinger ordered everyone to check with him before launching any nuclear missiles if Nixon ordered them, days before he resigned. I would think that would count as sort of a 'coup'.
cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)professional help from a qualified surgeon sooner to help him extract his head from his anus he might not be suffering now from irreversible brain damage due to a lack of oxygen.
FakeNoose
(32,748 posts)Just sayin'
Eyeball_Kid
(7,434 posts)sandensea
(21,664 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,154 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)bought and paid for by Russia and his beloved right-wing plutocrats.
A massive army of lies, ill-gotten greenbacks and social media electrons....
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Lincoln didn't face a coup in McClellan. Just political competition.
With Trump, it's his own party who recognize he is unfit and are trying to protect the nation from him. Not the opposing party. The opposin party would do the necessary job of removing him.
Obama is like Lincoln. Trump is as far from Lincoln as a President can get.
LudwigPastorius
(9,167 posts)You know what's a direct attack on the United States' institutions, Sloppy Steve?
Aiding Vladimir Putin in rigging a national election and advancing Russia's geopolitical agenda once you're in the White House...
So, you can fuck the hell right off.
Initech
(100,101 posts)SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)took place in the year 2000, when the Supreme Court handed the mentally challenged George W. Bush the victory in a 5-4 vote. The Supreme Whores and daddy's old friends were right on hand to protest and file mountains of motions. Gore and his legal team got to the party late, and by then the Bush legal team pretty much had things going their way. Amazing that the Bush campaign had all of these people in place before the problem even arose. I guess it helps when your little brother is Governor of Florida, and Jeb could volunteer the states considerable resources to bolster big brother's chances of "winning" the state.
That's when the coup started, and the GOP's plans have been coming together ever since. They thought years, even decades ahead. They finally found their buffoonish "savior" with Trump; someone who would cause so many diversions while the GOP was ramming through every tax cut and environmentally disastrous bill they ever imagined. All they had to do was sell the U.S out to Russia, and pretend Trump wasn't destroying the country along the way. Just play dumb, and do nothing. That role was tailor made for you decrepit old bastards in the GOP.
So fuck you, Bannon. If Trump is removed from office this will just be an adjustment to your timeline of our governmental destruction. We're trying to fight back, asshole, and we have the majority of American people on our side. You took it too far, too soon, and with an oafish, egotistical maniac to deliver what you thought would be "the knock out punch". We're still here, we're still fighting, and we will not allow you fascist fucks the satisfaction of total domination and destruction of every aspect of our government. Oh, and Steve, did I mention "FUCK YOU" to you before?