Bannon claim that Trump disparaged Sessions to provide “cover” for Kushner could be bad news

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This has been ignored mostly in MSM but if this Bannon claim about Trump is confirmed, this has the potential to make Trump one term phenomenon assuming he escapes any major setback from Mueller like "obstruction of justice" charge , Kushner/Flynn scandal fallout etc.


Bannon’s gripe against Kushner in Vanity Fair continues: He claims that Donald Trump’s disparaging tweets about Attorney General Jeff Sessions were designed to provide “cover” for Kushner by steering negative media attention toward Sessions and away from Kushner as he was scheduled to testify before a Senate committee.

Getting mauled by Steve Bannon might not be the worst thing to happen to the president’s son-in-law this week. He and Ivanka were sued (https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/17/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-sued-financial-disclosures-302240) by a private attorney for failing to disclose assets from 30 investment funds on their federal financial disclosure forms. Perhaps more ominous for Kushner, and according (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/22/business/kushner-deutsche-bank-subpoena.html?smid=tw-share) to the New York Times, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn have subpoenaed Deutsche Bank records about Kushner’s family’s real estate business. “There is no indication that the subpoena is related to the investigation being conducted by Robert S. Mueller III,” the Times allowed. Yeah, but wouldn’t you want to be there when Mueller’s team invites Bannon in to talk to him about the Vanity Fair and they ask him, “What did you mean about Jared taking meetings with Russians to get additional stuff? Like, what stuff?”

The Washington Post reports (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/kushners-legal-team-looks-to-hire-crisis-public-relations-firm/2017/12/15/6fbf144c-e1c3-11e7-9eb6-e3c7ecfb4638_story.html?utm_term=.a5f2b518fdef) that his lawyer, Abbe Lowell, has been shopping for a “crisis public relations firm” over the past two weeks. (Senator Robert Menendez, the recent beneficiary of a deadlocked corruption trial, is another Lowell client.)

https://www.politico.com/magazine/st...kushner-216166 (https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/23/swamp-diary-breitbart-bannon-kushner-216166)

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Did not see this coming:

Trump Tower meeting with Russians 'treasonous', Bannon says in explosive book



Former White House strategist quoted in Fire and Fury, by Michael Wolff
Bannon: ‘They’re going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV



Wed 3 Jan ‘18 11.32 EST

Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/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, (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/31/steve-bannon-may-have-lost-the-battle-in-alabama-but-his-gop-civil-war-goes-on) 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.”
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, reportedly based on more than 200 interviews with the president, his inner circle and players in and around the administration, is one of the most eagerly awaited political books of the year. In it, Wolff lifts the lid on a White House lurching from crisis to crisis amid internecine warfare, with even some of Trump’s closest allies expressing contempt for him.
Bannon, who was chief executive of the Trump campaign in its final three months, then White House chief strategist for seven months before returning to the rightwing Breitbart News, is a central figure in the nasty, cutthroat drama, quoted extensively, often in salty language.

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He is particularly scathing about 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 (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/12/who-is-natalia-veselnitskaya-low-level-lawyer-or-kremlin-power-broker) at Trump Tower in New York. A trusted intermediary had promised documents that would “incriminate” rival Hillary Clinton but instead of alerting the FBI to a potential assault on American democracy by a foreign power, Trump Jr replied in an email: “I love it.”
The meeting was revealed by the New York Times (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/11/donald-trump-jr-email-chain-russia-hillary-clinton) in July last year, prompting Trump Jr to say no consequential material was produced. Soon after, Wolff writes, 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, 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, (https://www.ihg.com/holidayinn/hotels/us/en/manchester/mhtba/hoteldetail) 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 added: “You never see it, you never know it, because you don’t need to … But that’s the brain trust that they had.”
Bannon also speculated that Trump Jr had involved his father in the meeting. “The chance that Don Jr did not walk these jumos up to his father’s office on the twenty-sixth floor is zero.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/03/donald-trump-russia-steve-bannon-michael-wolff

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Bannon’s gripe against Kushner in Vanity Fair continues: He claims that Donald Trump’s disparaging tweets about Attorney General Jeff Sessions were designed to provide “cover” for Kushner by steering negative media attention toward Sessions and away from Kushner as he was scheduled to testify before a Senate committee.


Timing probably just coincidence, two top headlines on frontpage now:


Top Headline 1 of the day:

Kushner, Russia bombshells rock the White House (https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/28/politics/donald-trump-jared-kushner-investigations/index.html)
CNN 11h ago

Related Coverage
Kushner loses access to top-secret intelligence (https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/27/jared-kushner-security-clearance-downgrade-427178)
Highly Cited Politico 20h ago

Report Says US Officials Are Concerned That Israel and Others Attempted to Manipulate Kushner (https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-israel-and-other-countries-accused-of-trying-to-manipulate-kushner-1.5863676)
Haaretz 18h ago

Kushner's overseas contacts raise concerns as foreign officials seek leverage (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/kushners-overseas-contacts-raise-concerns-as-foreign-officials-seek-leverage/2018/02/27/16bbc052-18c3-11e8-942d-16a950029788_story.html)
Highly Cited Washington Post 19h ago

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTMk9rhMwq5PIQa2iLN-fTPvLqWbHKSr2oAhOJnynoJa8lHSgle4wBDm4t-MeeXg-D5oTEvfyOZag (https://forward.com/fast-forward/395447/israel-china-tried-to-use-kushners-business-inexperience-to-shape-us-policy/)
Israel, China Tried To Use Kushner's Business, Inexperience To Shape US Policy (https://forward.com/fast-forward/395447/israel-china-tried-to-use-kushners-business-inexperience-to-shape-us-policy/)
Forward 18h ago






Top Headline 2 of the day:

Trump Attacks Sessions Over Handling of Surveillance Abuse Allegations (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/us/politics/trump-jeff-sessions-inspector-general-surveillance.html)
New York Times 1h ago

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POTUS is turning heat on JS again:

Trump vents against Attorney General Sessions and ponders firing special counsel Mueller (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/09/trump-vents-against-attorney-general-sessions-in-searing-remarks.html)



Trump says that if Attorney General Jeff Sessions had let Trump know he was planning to recuse himself from overseeing the special counsel's investigation, Trump would have picked someone else for the job.
Trump also told reporters that "many people" are telling him to fire Robert Mueller.
The remarks came shortly after reports that the FBI obtained a search warrant to raid the office and residence of Michael Cohen, Trump's longtime personal lawyer.

Kevin Breuninger | @Kevin (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/member.php?u=2675)WilliamB

Published 35 Mins Ago
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President Donald Trump vented at his Justice Department, his Cabinet members and his former political opponents in searing remarks Monday evening.

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H/T Drudge:

DEFIANT: Sessions to announce Alabama Senate bid... (https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/469243-sessions-inches-closer-to-announcing-alabama-senate-bid)

Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions is expected to announce plans to run for his former Senate seat on Thursday, multiple sources told The Hill.
A source familiar with Sessions’s plans said that the former Alabama senator “will come out forcefully in support of [President] Trump’s agenda while denouncing

Democrats’ impeachment efforts. And steps have already begun to hire campaign staff.”

Three sources familiar with the plans said the announcement would be made Thursday, with multiple sources saying it would be made during an appearance on Fox News on Thursday evening.
The deadline to file for the Senate race is Friday.




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