Trump Goes Nuclear On Bannon: “When He Was Fired, He Not Only Lost His Job, He Lost His Mind”

Earlier today, an explosive report from The Guardian detailed an advance copy of Steve Bannon’s new book, “Fire and Fury,” in which the former Trump advisor unloads on Don Jr. and Jared Kushner, saying that their meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya at Trump Tower was “treasonous” and “unpatriotic,” and that the FBI should have been called immediately.

 

“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, Wolff 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”.

Bannon also says that Trump’s repeated messaging that the Mueller probe will end quickly is nothing more than wishful thinking, and that the investigation has moved on to money laundering – which will ensnare Paul Manafort, Don Jr. and Jared Kushner.

“You realise where this is going,” he is quoted as saying. “This is all about money laundering. Mueller chose [senior prosecutor Andrew] Weissmann first and he is a money-laundering guy. Their path to fucking Trump goes right through Paul Manafort, Don Jr and Jared Kushner … It’s as plain as a hair on your face.”

In a statement issued by the White House moments ago, Trump hit back, saying that Bannon “spent his time at the White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was,” adding that the former advisor has “lost his mind.” (full statement below)

More Trump statement: "Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind."

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) January 3, 2018

White House just issued a statement torching Bannon from Trump.
"Steve pretends to be at war with the media, which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at the White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was."

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) January 3, 2018

"Steve doesn’t represent my base—he’s only in it for himself," Trump says in statement trashing Bannon.

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) January 3, 2018

Even Scaramucci weighed in:

I said what I said in the Summer take out the expletives and pay closer attention. Btw, @realDonaldTrump is doing a great job.

— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) January 3, 2018

This is all a diversionary 5D alpha flank formation, obviously…

Statement from the President of the United States

Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency.

When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind.

Steve was a staffer who worked for me after I had already won the nomination by defeating seventeen candidates, often described as the most talented field ever assembled in the Republican party.

Now that he is on his own, Steve is learning that winning isn’t as easy as I make it look. Steve had very little to do with our historic victory, which was delivered by the forgotten men and women of this country.

Yet Steve had everything to do with the loss of a Senate seat in Alabama held for more than thirty years by Republicans.

Steve doesn’t represent my base-he’s only in it for himself.

Steve pretends to be at war with the media, which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at the White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was. It is the only thing he does well. Steve was rarely in a one-on-one meeting with me and only pretends to have had influence to fool a few people with no access and no clue, whom he helped write phony books.

We have many great Republican members of Congress and candidates who are very supportive of the Make America Great Again agenda. Like me, they love the United States of America and are helping to finally take our country back and build it up, rather than simply seeking to burn it all down.

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