Lawyers, Gubs, and Money… It has been noted that Bannon’s combative nature was much like Roy Cohn's, explaining why Trump did trust Bannon, until he couldn’t.
One needs to remember that Bannon throwing shade on Kushner also takes attention away from Bannon’s own role as campaign CEO.
“Bannon was an insider in the campaign at the highest level, and in the White House all the way to last August,” said Richard Painter, chief White House ethics lawyer under George W Bush. “He was talking to the president constantly – I can’t imagine Trump not confiding in him, including over the Russia inquiry.”
Bannon is specific about what he regards as the most dangerous aspect of the Mueller inquiry: “It goes through Deutsche Bank and all the Kushner shit. The Kushner shit is greasy. They’re going to go right through that.”
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“Bannon may already be cooperating with Mueller for all we know,” Richard Painter said. “He has no incentive to cover up for Trump or his family members.”
Ed Rollins has always been available to paper over GOP conflicts since Nixon and is another sop to reconnecting Lord Dampnut with party leadership since the Hatch retirement may rehabilitate rMoney. Think Roger Stone with a bottle of valium.
“Bannon was shot on the South Lawn and run over by a tank and the president shifted in gear and ran over him again,” said veteran Republican strategist Ed Rollins, a strategist for the pro-Trump Great America super PAC. “I’ve never seen anybody blown up like he was.”
The problem, Rollins said, stemmed from the fact that “Bannon saw his role as a lot bigger than it ever was or than it ever would be.”
Before Bannon joined the Trump campaign, Trump was but the latest in a string of implausible political candidates Bannon had championed through his website, Breitbart News, including Dave Brat, who took down then-House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. He had also inflicted damage on Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton by helping to finance and publicize the book “Clinton Cash” about the funding of and fundraising for the Clinton Foundation. So Bannon took a certain amount of credit when Trump’s political campaign took off — and when he won the presidency.
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