"When you strike at the king, you must kill him." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a battle of the Titans. Steve Bannon and President Trump are now at loggerheads ... and the liberal media are licking their collective chops. Ever since Bannon left as Trumps strategic advisor, he has been sniping at his enemies within, Jared Kushner, Donald Trump Junior, and, lately, even the President himself. As I have been collecting headlines for this blog from many Internet news sites, I have had more difficulty with the Breitbart site. Since Bannon returned to run Breitbart, he has been using this site as a personal vendetta against his Trump adversaries. Usually, the first dozen or so stories there are colored to this purpose ... and so have been discarded.
President Trump has apparently had enough and has emptied a broadside against Steve Bannon because of quotes attributed to him in Michael Wolff's new book, "Fire and Fury." Trump is saying that the reason Bannon was fired was because he was a major leaker to the media. And afterwards, his support of Judge Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate race was symptomatic of his out-of-control ego ... see: Bloomberg News Story. Bannon, for his part, has, in this book called Don Jr. and Kushner "treasonous" for their meeting with the Russian attorney in Trump Tower.This internecine war is ugly and likely to get worse ... egged on by a delighted media.
But I must confess that I have endorsed Bannon's combative style in the past ... just as I have endorsed this same behavior by Trump. But his recent attack on President Trump and his family feels vindictive ... and disappoints. So these revelations, whether true or not, are not helpful to either combatant. If Bannon does not take down Trump with his brickbats, his effectiveness in the battle with the deep state will be toast. For the remainder of Trump's years he will be on the outside looking in.
4 comments:
Prepare yourself for additional disappointments, grasshopper. The liar-in-chief sounds more like a crazy person with each nutty claim.
Sounds level-headed, even-handed and flat-footed ...
Afterthought: I'm smelling a rat. This so called tell-all book sounds to good to be true, from an anti Trump perspective.
No way this guy Wolff got all those people to say bad things about Trump while they are still working in White House, on the record. Why would they do that? This looks like a Trojan horse to me. Probably designed to make CNN and other mainstream news media look really fake once they swallow the bait.
Maybe it'll win Trump's fake news award (The Rather?) at 5PM on Monday?
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