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Steve Bannon Gives White House Script to Derail Russia Probe
Newsmax ^ | April 11, 2018 | Jason Devaney

Posted on 04/11/2018 8:28:54 PM PDT by BurgessKoch

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has spoken with people in the West Wing and in Congress about a new plan to knock the Russia investigation off the rails, according to a new report.

The Washington Post reported Wednesday night Bannon has a proposal he is presenting to people in President Donald Trump's circle. The plan is designed to protect Trump as the Department of Justice probe into Russia collusion continues.

The multi-pronged approach, according to the Post, includes firing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, instructing the White House to stop cooperating with FBI special counsel Robert Mueller, and asking Trump to cite executive privilege both forward and backward, which would make interviews Mueller's team has conducted with White House staffers inadmissible to the investigation.

"The president wasn't fully briefed by his lawyers on the implications" of not invoking executive privilege, Bannon told the Post. "It was a strategic mistake to turn over everything without due process, and executive privilege should be exerted immediately and retroactively."

Bannon also suggested Trump should fire Ty Cobb, a member of the White House legal team working on the Russia matter.

Rosenstein is supervising Mueller's Russia investigation, which began last spring over allegations Trump's campaign colluded with Russia. Rosenstein signed off on the search warrant that led to Monday's raids at two offices, an apartment, and a hotel room tied to Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen.

Trump has indicated he might fire Mueller, which according to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is not allowed under the Code of Federal Regulations. Other reports say Trump may fire Rosenstein, which would be legal.

Bannon has yet to bring his ideas to Trump himself, according to the Post, instead having conversations with others over the phone and in person.

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To: BurgessKoch

Good. But why is this in the news?

This should have happened quietly, privately, behind the scenes.


21 posted on 04/11/2018 8:58:08 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: BurgessKoch

Didn’t McMaster fire Bannon? I think that McMaster should be prosecuted, and everyone that he fired should be rehired if possible.


22 posted on 04/11/2018 8:58:28 PM PDT by matthew fuller (Thank God for Donald J. Trump- El Presidente Por La Vida !!)
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To: Architect of Avalon

Trump needs to pardon anybody that has ever been charged or questioned by Herr Mueller and keep doing it every time he talks to one of his people in the future.


23 posted on 04/11/2018 8:58:53 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: MortMan

Schumer says under the Code of Federal Regulations, not law.


24 posted on 04/11/2018 8:59:58 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: BurgessKoch

Tell ya what Mr. Leaker....your law degree (not) doesn’t impress me


25 posted on 04/11/2018 9:01:23 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: tired&retired

I don’t think he was ever a double agent. His loyalty has always been with the Rats.


26 posted on 04/11/2018 9:04:41 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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Bannon, a fountain of great advice..Like, bring in Michael Wolff!


27 posted on 04/11/2018 9:06:18 PM PDT by proust ("The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.")
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To: proust

28 posted on 04/11/2018 9:07:25 PM PDT by proust ("The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.")
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To: raiderboy

Bannon didn’t tow the party line but he still put his country, not Russia and Syria, first.

And Putin has crossed a line. Not just with Syria. But with his antics in Europe. Doesn’t mean there will be *war*...but tone with Russia will take major shift under Trump. None of this Obama/Hilary/Bush reset nonsense.

Bannon is a patriot, a filmmaker, and a history/culture buff. He has called Los Angeles home for much of his life. He is not the Neo-Confederate white supremacist alt-righter the leftists painted him as being.


29 posted on 04/11/2018 9:13:48 PM PDT by GoldenState_Rose
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To: BurgessKoch

Bannon told the Post. “It was a strategic mistake to turn over everything without due process, and executive privilege should be exerted immediately and retroactively.”

i agree with bannon. he is exactly right. He, the President, is nothing less than a co-equal branch of gov’t. He should have given them nothing, nothing, nothing. trying to go fast, thinking he could make a deal with the deep state embeds, and the enemy uni-party congress. it wasn’t going to happen without a big political stick, which Trump will not have until he consolidates his own power.

now the best thing is to be patient. let God work. let deep state hang themselves out to dry, and pick them off one by one. give them nothing. rope-a-dope the gope and deep state. keep chipping away at them.


30 posted on 04/11/2018 9:17:54 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: Bigtigermike

As long as it isn’t Trump who fires him. They’re trying to bait him into doing just that. I can see why he wanted to bring his daughter and son in law on board. He didn’t know who he could trust. (Not that I agree with having them there). It’s taking him a long time to get the right people around him, because Washington is full of smiley faced, lying backstabbers, who have been sent in to deceive him. God give him wisdom to discern whom to trust.


31 posted on 04/11/2018 9:21:20 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: BurgessKoch

Don’t be fooled by the photos and stories of Bannon as published by the popular media. He’s no dummy. Have a look at his bio information.


32 posted on 04/11/2018 9:25:57 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Nifster

I am not impressed either. If Bannon wasn’t playing a
game of “HEY, LOOK AT ME, I’M STILL HERE!” he would
have submitted his ideas confidentially, IMO.


33 posted on 04/11/2018 9:42:58 PM PDT by Sivad (Demo M/O = infiltrate, overtake, politicize, weaponize)
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To: MortMan

§ 600.7 Conduct and accountability.

(a)....

(d) The Special Counsel may be disciplined or removed from office only by the personal action of the Attorney General.


34 posted on 04/11/2018 9:44:19 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: TexasGator

Rep Louie Gohmert: Mueller Needs to Be Fired

http://video.foxnews.com/v/5768235679001/?#sp=show-clips


35 posted on 04/11/2018 9:49:54 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
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To: BurgessKoch

Bannon is right. Fire Rosenstein and keep Mueller focused on Russia. It’s better to manage Mueller than to fire him.

Mueller is now chasing porn stars in clear violation of his mandate. Has Jeff Magoo commented on these latest developments yet?


36 posted on 04/11/2018 10:21:43 PM PDT by Helicondelta (Deplorable)
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To: Electric Graffiti

Trump doesn’t need to fire Rosenstein

He just needs to tell Sessions to do it

Done and done

Bannon has a handle on it

Executive privilege forward and back is a stroke of genius


37 posted on 04/11/2018 10:52:45 PM PDT by Syncro (Facts is facts)
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To: Innovative

It’s Bannon’s MO. He wanted to be on the record, and he wanted the Trump base to know he had contacted the White House.


38 posted on 04/11/2018 10:54:44 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Ed/Academia = farm team for more Marxists coming, infinitum.)
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To: TexasGator

Does this trump the constitution?


39 posted on 04/11/2018 10:59:41 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Islam is Satans finest work.)
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To: matthew fuller

McMaster successfully had Bannon removed from Trump’s National Security Adviser meetings, and also had previously removed a Bannon aide, who attended in Bannon’s absence.

I believe it was General Kelly, as Chief of Staff, who gave Bannon his walking papers, since Bannon was a White House presidential political adviser, ensconced in the West Wing.


40 posted on 04/11/2018 10:59:52 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Ed/Academia = farm team for more Marxists coming, infinitum.)
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