Why Michael Wolff’s Trump “tell-all” book might be worth a look
We’re no fans of right-wing tool Steve Bannon, who controls the notoriously misleading, white-nationalist reactionary Breitbart web site. But based on David Smith’s latest report in the Guardian, a new book about the Trump White House is likely to trigger major meltdowns in the West Wing — and may well be worth acquiring once it hits stores based on some juicy nuggets from the blotchy fat man.
Reason one:
Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon has described the Trump Tower meeting between the president’s son and a group of Russians during the 2016 election campaign as “treasonous” and “unpatriotic”, according to an explosive new book seen by The Guardian.
Bannon, speaking to author Michael Wolff, warned that the investigation into alleged collusion with the Kremlin will focus on money laundering and predicted: “They’re going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV.”
Bannon, in fact, had his own twisted idea about how the Trump presidential campaign should have handled
… a June 2016 meeting involving Trump’s son Donald Jr, son-in-law Jared Kushner, then campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya at Trump Tower in New York. … Bannon remarked mockingly: “The three senior guys in the campaign thought it was a good idea to meet with a foreign government inside Trump Tower in the conference room on the 25th floor – with no lawyers. They didn’t have any lawyers. Even if you thought that this was not treasonous, or unpatriotic, or bad shit, and I happen to think it’s all of that, you should have called the FBI immediately.”
Bannon went on, Wolffe writes, to say that if any such meeting had to take place, it should have been set up “in a Holiday Inn in Manchester, New Hampshire, with your lawyers who meet with these people”. Any information, he said, could then be “dump[ed] … down to Breitbart or something like that, or maybe some other more legitimate publication”.
… which brings up to Reason 2: Bannon essentially admits Breitbrt.com is not a legitimate media source! Heckuva job, Steve!
