Implosion: How Steve Bannon Mortally Wounded Himself, in Three Steps

Townhall.com ^ | January 4, 2017 | Guy Benson

[CGASMIA68]

I think Bannon has an abuse problem. Drugs Booze both.

[databoss]

ALCOHOL.

[stockpirate]

Steve Bannon wants to run in 2020, he believes that Trump supporters think he is the man and will replace Trump with him.

He is toast, soon to be fired again.

[babble-on]

Bannon erroneously thought that he was the brains of the operation.

[DoughtyOne]

Steve Bannon is now at war with the entire Republican Party...

Well, I guess we're all big jerks here.

I'm definitely at war with the GOPe.

[txrefugee]

There is something else happening that we are being distracted from seeing. Anyone watching Sarah Sanders’ presser today, when every question was about this gossip book, can see that this distraction ploy has succeeded once again.

[WayneS]

Based on his appearance, I'd guess alcohol - lots and lots, and LOTS, of alcohol

[Kaslin]

Those bloodshot eyes sure are telling, aren’t they?

[DesertRhino]

Nice propaganda touch, they make sure to obtain the most unflattering photo possible. This ascent of McMaster, Javanka and Kelly wing of the party has nosed out any conservatives who wanted a wall, an end to the neocon wars, etc.
Now they are consolidating power by reducing those who were nosed out.

Interesting to see the old USSR power games happening right here at home.

[WayneS]

What does Mr. Bannon have to say about all of this? Not much, aside from muttering about Trump being, er, "a great man."

I thought Bannon issued a 'tweet' yesterday emphatically denouncing the book as being full of lies.

[babble-on]

So this is not Bannon’s fault, but the treacherous Jews’, eh?

And I defy you to find a flattering picture of Bannon. I’d say this one is better than average.

[FreeReign]

Wow, Just looked at the comments section on Breitbart. Wow. When Bannon has lost Breitbart, he’s left with . . . umm, nothing.— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) January 3, 2018

Cool. Trump's reading social media comment sections.

Hey Donald. Rosenstein didn't produce the docs last night. Time to fire him and hire somebody who will do what Sessions won't do.

Prosecute the Deep State.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Regardless of the details, I’m at a complete loss to understand why he did this.

[Jeff Chandler]

POLL: HAS STEVE BANNON LOST HIS MIND?

[gibsonguy]

It may serve as a distraction ploy but it was not planned. Giving the Rats and MSM the treasonous talking point is not exactly what you would choose.

[NEMDF]

Call me a “conspiracy theorist”, but I tend to agree with you. I think all of the Bannon controversy might be a ploy by POTUS, aided by Bannon, to keep the MSM busy, while something else BIG is going down.

[Steely Tom]

Regardless of the details, I’m at a complete loss to understand why he did this.

In a high-pitched voice, sing this: DRUUUUUUGS!

[redhead]

...took a knife, stabbed himself, said, "Take THAT, Potus!" Stabbed himself again, hollered, "...and THAT, too!" And again, "...And THAT!!" ...

"Are you dead yet?"

[Alberta's Child]

At the very least, Democrats on the Hill, and probably a number of Republicans, are going to be curious about why Bannon (who'd totally dismissed the Russia story on 60 Minutes a few months ago) would use a word like "treasonous" in this context.

This itself is a most curious angle to the story. It reinforces my view that the Wolff book is filled with quotes from Bannon that were really given to concoct a narrative based on an expectation that Trump was going to be run out of office in June or July of 2017 when the NYT stories about Trump and Sessions were all over the news.

And I really have to give credit where credit is due. The Bannon meltdown would seem to put this classic quote from a guy I don't like very much right up there as "Quote of the Year" material for 2017:

"He [Bannon] looks like some disheveled drunk who wandered onto the political stage." -- Rep. Peter King (R-NY)

LMAO.