Even after leaving in August, and despite recent scrutiny over the Comey firing deliberations, Steve Bannon still advises POTUS Dotard.
Since Jared is under greater pressure with the Trump Tower meeting, among other potential conflicts, Trump’s inner circle might be hurting, what with bagmen like Mike Cohen probably under closer watch.
Bannon’s failed $60 million gold farming deal in China makes him suited to become one of the few people left who Trump trusts and who isn’t too close to an indictment.
Perhaps it was just a fidget-spinner deal, but Bannon’s tough talk on China as economic enemy doesn’t suggest the role of diplomat.
And for that brief moment there’s no mention of #TrumpRussia, but much like politics in Alabama, Bannon can trash PRC policy in Hong Kong yet meet with major Chinese Communist functionaries. Contrary to Bannon’s opinion, China is not really like Germany in the 1930s as much as the US might be, and it could go either way.
The clandestine meeting was with Wang Qishan, “the second most powerful Chinese Communist Party official,” according to the Financial Times. Qishan is a member of the Politburo’s Standing Committee and is the Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China.
“Mr Wang, who is seen as the second most powerful person in China after President Xi Jinping, arranged through an intermediary for a 90-minute meeting,” the Financial Times reported. “After Mr Trump won the election, China frequently approached Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and top aide, to help navigate the US-China relationship. But Mr Kushner has taken much less of a role in recent months.”
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