The Mooch popped his head up yesterday... just... like... that.... to make one of his trademark bizarre not-well-thought-through comments -- about cocaine, no less!
Then, he deleted it!
The Anthony Scaramucci era of the Trump White House was over before it even began.
The Mooch, you will recall, was obsessed with leaks and threatened to fire staffers who handed out unauthorized information to reporters.
He reserved his own personal breakdown for The New Yorker, where he poured his guts out.
The subsequent story begins ....
On Wednesday night, I received a phone call from Anthony Scaramucci, the new White House communications director. He wasn’t happy. Earlier in the night, I’d tweeted, citing a “senior White House official,” that Scaramucci was having dinner at the White House with President Trump, the First Lady, Sean Hannity, and the former Fox News executive Bill Shine. It was an interesting group, and raised some questions. Was Trump getting strategic advice from Hannity? Was he considering hiring Shine? But Scaramucci had his own question—for me.
“Who leaked that to you?” he asked. I said I couldn’t give him that information. He responded by threatening to fire the entire White House communications staff. “What I’m going to do is, I will eliminate everyone in the comms team and we’ll start over,” he said. I laughed, not sure if he really believed that such a threat would convince a journalist to reveal a source. He continued to press me and complain about the staff he’s inherited in his new job. “I ask these guys not to leak anything and they can’t help themselves,” he said. “You’re an American citizen, this is a major catastrophe for the American country. So I’m asking you as an American patriot to give me a sense of who leaked it.”
With that, it was off to the races. (Meaning, it was all downhill from there, as they say.)
"Bannon is one of the smartest people I know," Scaramucci himself said of Bannon back in March. Bannon has read "every book" at Barnes & Noble twice.
Which brings us to the point of this piece today. The excerpt, recognizing the tell of one of Trump's leakers, came from a read we highly, highly recommend: Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency
After reading it, you will have a greater understanding of the Trump presidency.
Some really goofy shit will make sense.
We have issues with the book that we will detail probably in other stories, but for today, we want to finally deliver the nugget to you.
First, we set the stage: it's 7:22 pm last Election Day in the war room in Trump Tower.
"It will take a miracle for us to win," someone in the Trump corner told CNN -- and the cable news network was playing it up for all it was worth.
And that night it was worth a lot....
From Devil's Bargain
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Bannon didn’t have to guess at the culprit. He simply assumed it was Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s campaign manager, and how the hell would she know? Conway was a pollster by trade, but she tested messaging, not horse race, and the campaign had cut her off weeks earlier because Trump preferred to see her spinning on TV. If Bannon cared to—and right now, he did not—he could have watched Acosta’s full report and looked for the Tell. That’s what always gave her away. Because Conway was the only woman on Trump’s senior staff, reporters avoided using gender pronouns when quoting her anonymously, lest an errant “she” slip out and reveal their source. Instead, they employed the awkward but gender-neutral “this adviser” or “this person,” and by the third or fourth reference what they were doing became pretty obvious. That was the Tell. Some of Trump’s advisers had long ago caught on and joked about it.
Sure enough, Acosta cited “a senior adviser from Donald Trump’s inner circle,” followed by a trifecta of “this adviser”s, with nary a “he” or a “she” to be heard. Even before he’d finished talking, CNN—Trump’s obsession and bête noire—had billboarded the “take a miracle” quote in a banner that stretched across the screen.
But Bannon had already moved on. He could never fathom why people like Conway worked so hard to win goodwill from reporters (most of whom, he thought, were idiots with no earthly idea of what was going on) or why they cared so much about appearances....
NEXT TIME: THE REAL REASON TRUMP RAN FOR PRESIDENT
Then, he deleted it!
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But the Mooch's ability to both simultaneously demean himself and make us laugh continues unabated.
His latest volley was to assure us that he and his family "take the subject of cocaine and its use very seriously."
His latest volley was to assure us that he and his family "take the subject of cocaine and its use very seriously."
The Mooch’s statement is linked to an iTunes page for one of his podcasts, titled “The Motivation Inside.”
Don't look for the tweet, though, he deleted it.
We got all this from Death and Taxes, a news site.
It noted: "The link Scaramucci provided leads to an iTunes page featuring four episodes he recorded in 2016. Apparently, there was an episode about the booger sugar, but it was deleted almost immediately after going live."
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| The counter-tweet that called the Mooch out.... |
The Mooch, you will recall, was obsessed with leaks and threatened to fire staffers who handed out unauthorized information to reporters.
He reserved his own personal breakdown for The New Yorker, where he poured his guts out.
The subsequent story begins ....
On Wednesday night, I received a phone call from Anthony Scaramucci, the new White House communications director. He wasn’t happy. Earlier in the night, I’d tweeted, citing a “senior White House official,” that Scaramucci was having dinner at the White House with President Trump, the First Lady, Sean Hannity, and the former Fox News executive Bill Shine. It was an interesting group, and raised some questions. Was Trump getting strategic advice from Hannity? Was he considering hiring Shine? But Scaramucci had his own question—for me.
You can read the breakdown of the meltdown here:
The Mooch (or, as some believe, President Trump, who is a lot more ruthless than you probably know, via Scaramucci) with surgical precision then tore into two people. one of whom was cut loose from the administration -- Priebus -- and the other guy, if you know anything about him, Steve Bannon, meaning ... let's just say some pundits refer to Bannon as "President Trump's Brain."
And I've no doubt Bannon wrote the Mooch's obituary before hanging up the phone after Lizza called for comment.
Bannon is the guy who if Trump fires, you can expect the sht is really, really going to hit the fan.
This is the last guy Trump would cut loose...
Bannon is an evil genuis of epic proportions.
He's an ultra-right-wing lunatic (we're talking hardcore white supremacist nationalist right wing; John Birch Society stuff, Minutemen Project stuff, though Bannon would have his own thing).
He was in the Marines (he thinks that makes him a warrior, but he never saw combat). He graduated from Harvard Business school, worked for Goldman Sachs and finally minted his fortune in Hollywood doing the finance shtick.
There's a false narrative in the Devils Bargain, one of the fastest selling bios available now. In it, Bannon uses historical events to justify who he is. (Former colleagues call him "human garbage" in the book.)u
Bannon, an independently wealthy man, later takes a job running Breitbart News Network (known commonly as Breitbart News, Breitbart or Breitbart.com). (See latest nonsense here.)
Breitbart is more than a far-right American news, opinion and commentary website founded in 2007 by Andrew Breitbart.
The site has published MULTIPLE falsehoods and conspiracy theories (see these Wikipedia footnotes: [9][10][11][12]), as well as intentionally misleading stories.([13])
And I've no doubt Bannon wrote the Mooch's obituary before hanging up the phone after Lizza called for comment.
Bannon is the guy who if Trump fires, you can expect the sht is really, really going to hit the fan.
This is the last guy Trump would cut loose...
Bannon is an evil genuis of epic proportions.
He's an ultra-right-wing lunatic (we're talking hardcore white supremacist nationalist right wing; John Birch Society stuff, Minutemen Project stuff, though Bannon would have his own thing).
He was in the Marines (he thinks that makes him a warrior, but he never saw combat). He graduated from Harvard Business school, worked for Goldman Sachs and finally minted his fortune in Hollywood doing the finance shtick.
There's a false narrative in the Devils Bargain, one of the fastest selling bios available now. In it, Bannon uses historical events to justify who he is. (Former colleagues call him "human garbage" in the book.)u
Bannon, an independently wealthy man, later takes a job running Breitbart News Network (known commonly as Breitbart News, Breitbart or Breitbart.com). (See latest nonsense here.)
Breitbart is more than a far-right American news, opinion and commentary website founded in 2007 by Andrew Breitbart.
The site has published MULTIPLE falsehoods and conspiracy theories (see these Wikipedia footnotes: [9][10][11][12]), as well as intentionally misleading stories.([13])
On the political fringe, a lot of weird shit happens below the radar. I'm talking about, literally, "fake news." Breitbart isn't the only site to publish it. There's another news site, for example, called The Daily Caller, I read it I wonder -- what was the agenda for this story?
"Bannon is one of the smartest people I know," Scaramucci himself said of Bannon back in March. Bannon has read "every book" at Barnes & Noble twice.
Scarmucci praised Bannon's writing ability, and said he is able to discern Bannon's style in some of President Trump's best speeches. (I didn't know Trump had any of those. But Bannon's influence was probably crafting the whole "fake news" angle. They knew they'd be playing fast and loose with the truth, so they needed an excuse, a way to literally shake up the mainstream media. Bannon is the source of the nuttier stuff Trump says.)
If this is a topic of interest for you, go to this link and watch the video.
Bannon is "free and clear," meaning he has earned enough F-U money to never have to work again.
So the guy goes around doing whatever he wants. And it's not courting beautiful women, or gambling, or enjoying the millions he's earned. It's making America safe for the rightwing lunatic fringe, a demographic he's obsessed with. He's also obsessed with hating the Clintons.
Bannon, many believe, is the man most responsible for putting Trump in the White House.
And he's heading for disaster, as longtime Trump pundits have pointed out The Donald's lengthy history of forging tight alliances based on loyalty, then cutting them lose in a split second. Historically nearly every Trump partner gets screwed. And hates Trump....
If this is a topic of interest for you, go to this link and watch the video.
Bannon is "free and clear," meaning he has earned enough F-U money to never have to work again.
So the guy goes around doing whatever he wants. And it's not courting beautiful women, or gambling, or enjoying the millions he's earned. It's making America safe for the rightwing lunatic fringe, a demographic he's obsessed with. He's also obsessed with hating the Clintons.
Bannon, many believe, is the man most responsible for putting Trump in the White House.
And he's heading for disaster, as longtime Trump pundits have pointed out The Donald's lengthy history of forging tight alliances based on loyalty, then cutting them lose in a split second. Historically nearly every Trump partner gets screwed. And hates Trump....
The Trump administration is one of the leakiest admins in American history.
Which brings us to the point of this piece today. The excerpt, recognizing the tell of one of Trump's leakers, came from a read we highly, highly recommend: Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency
After reading it, you will have a greater understanding of the Trump presidency.Some really goofy shit will make sense.
 |
We have issues with the book that we will detail probably in other stories, but for today, we want to finally deliver the nugget to you.
First, we set the stage: it's 7:22 pm last Election Day in the war room in Trump Tower.
"It will take a miracle for us to win," someone in the Trump corner told CNN -- and the cable news network was playing it up for all it was worth.
And that night it was worth a lot....
From Devil's Bargain
:Bannon didn’t have to guess at the culprit. He simply assumed it was Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s campaign manager, and how the hell would she know? Conway was a pollster by trade, but she tested messaging, not horse race, and the campaign had cut her off weeks earlier because Trump preferred to see her spinning on TV. If Bannon cared to—and right now, he did not—he could have watched Acosta’s full report and looked for the Tell. That’s what always gave her away. Because Conway was the only woman on Trump’s senior staff, reporters avoided using gender pronouns when quoting her anonymously, lest an errant “she” slip out and reveal their source. Instead, they employed the awkward but gender-neutral “this adviser” or “this person,” and by the third or fourth reference what they were doing became pretty obvious. That was the Tell. Some of Trump’s advisers had long ago caught on and joked about it.
Sure enough, Acosta cited “a senior adviser from Donald Trump’s inner circle,” followed by a trifecta of “this adviser”s, with nary a “he” or a “she” to be heard. Even before he’d finished talking, CNN—Trump’s obsession and bête noire—had billboarded the “take a miracle” quote in a banner that stretched across the screen.
But Bannon had already moved on. He could never fathom why people like Conway worked so hard to win goodwill from reporters (most of whom, he thought, were idiots with no earthly idea of what was going on) or why they cared so much about appearances....
NEXT TIME: THE REAL REASON TRUMP RAN FOR PRESIDENT
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