Steve Bannon appeared on ABC’s This Week today to remind us all that he still looks like a Xerox copy of marmalade toast. He spent some time defending Trump’s vile child-detention policy and throwing shade at the pope (seriously) before the sentient roach swarm that animates his epidermal husk made him say some really crazy shit:
JONATHAN KARL: That was President Trump on the campaign trail in August 2016, telling the American people he will never lie to them.
We're back with Steve Bannon.
Now you famously kept the white board of presidential promises to keep track of what he was keeping. That is a promise he obviously broke. He has not always told the truth.
STEVE BANNON: I don't know that.
(CROSSTALK)
KARL: Steve.
BANNON: From what I see is, he has. This is another thing to demonize him.
KARL: The president's never lied?
BANNON: Not to my knowledge, no.
KARL: What about when he says that the --
BANNON: Except when he called me Sloppy Steve. That's the only --
(CROSSTALK)
KARL: What about when he stays IG report exonerates him of collusion.
BANNON: You want to go back to that?
You want to go back to that?
(CROSSTALK)
BANNON: You want to go back to the IG report that weaponize the FBI against Donald Trump?
(CROSSTALK)
KARL: He says things that are not true all the time.
BANNON: I don't believe that.
KARL: Come on.
BANNON: I think he speaks in a particular vernacular that connects to people in this country.
So the only time Trump ever lied is when he called Bannon “Sloppy Steve”? That’s one of the few times he’s told the truth.
I know Bannon has little respect for the mainstream media — preferring to get his news from outlets like Breitbart, which is basically a cross between Stormfront.org and Highlights for Children — but he might want to check out this pie chart:
Oh, I know. Fake news. Have it your way.
Welcome back, Steve. Don’t let the door hit you in the coccyx.
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