keith just tweeted that Bannon is cooperating with Meuller and he may unretire lol

[TalenaGor]

ETA tweet (sorry got click happy, didnt mean to post it w/o actual tweet lol)

Link to tweet

[drm604]

1. Do you have a link?

[hlthe2b]

2. yeah, that was confusing to me too. See below

Link to tweet

[a kennedy]

3. Yes, yes, come back Keith.......

[BigmanPigman]

43. YES! I miss The Resistance SOOO much.

It was my favorite source of rational, angry, and legit info. I need my Keith "fix" since I am "jonesing".

RESIST! REMOVE! Peace.

[HopeAgain]

4. Where has anyone other than Olberman said Bannon is Cooperating

Is he cooperating like going to talk to investigators, or is he cooperating as an informant?

[hlthe2b]

6. Daily Beast article says he's hired the same attorney as Priebus and McGahn

https://amp.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon-lawyers-up-russia-investigators-ready-to-pounce?__twitter_impression=true

[triron]

8. House investigation?

Which one?

[More_Cowbell]

13. Which means that Bannon, Priebus, and McGahn don't have conflicting interests

Interesting.

[HopeAgain]

22. Which likely means none of the three have cut a deal

There would be an ethical issue if one of them had agreed to cooperate, and an attorney is not going to take on a new client if one is already cooperating.

Only if all three came to the attorney at once and said they wanted to cooperate together could this happen. Highly unlikely.

[getagrip_already]

24. we know priebus is cooperating already....

Muehler has his notebooks. He's had them for months.

So presumably there is information in those notebooks that could implicate bannon.

Further evidence that having the same lawyer couldn't happen unless all were cooperating.

[HopeAgain]

28. All we know is that he Priebus has voluntarily submitted to an interview.

That is not the same as agreeing to testify against other potential defendants as we know Papadopoulis has done.

[getagrip_already]

29. he also voluntarily provided his notes...

Those were his personal notes, not official gov't documents. He either handed them over voluntarily or muehler would have had to subpoena them and that would be public.

You don't hand over potentially self incriminating documents without some deal........

[tableturner]

54. Wrong....you hand them over when subpoenaed, regardless of a deal. It's the law.

[getagrip_already]

55. was there a subpoena?

surely that would be a public by now.....

[tableturner]

56. Has not been made public, and would not, until Mueller is ready.

[getagrip_already]

59. or, one doesn't exist....

It's far more likely they were provided voluntarily. Priebus has no reason to go down with that ship by forcing a subpoena.

He very likely just handed them over and is cooperating.

[tableturner]

60. I agree that he voluntarily handed them over. He may be cooperative, without actually flipping.

In other words, why make Mueller subpoena documents he knows Mueller has the right to subpoena, thereby needlessly poisoning the relationship? He could voluntarily do that without having been flipped. Though both scenarios often coincide, the first scenario can occur even when the second one hasn't.

[Cosmocat]

15. He is a truly despicable human being, but it is hard to see what they might have on him

from the public view.

Nothing really incriminating has been brought to light that stands out to me like Flynn, Manafort, even Jr. Kushner, etc.

[itcfish]

5. Keith Please Come Back!

We need you!

[triron]

7. I hope so but need independent corroboration

Sounds like it may me optimistic speculation

[duforsure]

9. Bannon is like Trump

He'd turn on anyone to save himself. And he's a man with lots of information, so destroying Donald is just another go to any length's to damage him, now that Trump damaged him so much. He's going to make trump pay too by helping expose him. No surprise if its true.

[WyattKansas]

18. Bannon wants payback...

For what Trump and his supporters did to exile him from his job and destroy him.

And he paints himself as the unsuspecting good guy who got caught up in the mess the Trumps already got into.

[padah513]

20. Yep

That's exactly what I was thinking. Scorched earth.

[2naSalit]

39. +1

[not fooled]

42. Ooohhh

and scrofulous steve was at the nexus of the mercers and dump. cambridge analytica is a suspect in helping putin microtarget dumbass 'Muricans with russian propaganda.

So, is steve gonna bring down the mercers, too? Just after bekah "Cruella de Vil" publicly kicked him to the curb?

[volstork]

44. "scrofulous steve"

That's great!

Interestingly, if you Google "scrofulous ulcer," bannon's picture comes up. Really. You have to scroll down a bit, but it's there. I was hoping to post a nasty scrofula pic, but I guess we all know what bannon looks like...

[madinmaryland]

57. God, I'd love it, if he brought down the Nazi Mercers.

[not fooled]

61. Makes you wonder

what the idiots who thought dump was the second coming and "someone who can't be bought because he has his own money" would say if they knew he actually was brought to them courtesy of a couple of rich loons (mercer pere et bekah "cruella de vil" fille) who bought the election after rigging it with some help from their bud vlad and the puke co-conspirators.

And, what the crackpot mercers' agenda actually is. Hint, morans: it isn't about helping you, that's for sure.

[malaise]

10. I was thinking about him this morning n/t

[Volaris]

16. This would be why Mueller brought a cyber expert on to the team...

If Bannons flipped, it means he gave them Cambridge Analytica and they're gonna look at every ping and packet they can...and while money laundering and obstruction are important, when it comes to electioneering and whatnot, this would be the Ballgame.

[malaise]

17. Music to my ears

[erronis]

35. Wouldn't hurt to have Cambridge Analytica sweating a bit now

From what I have learned, they are not a totally above-board company without biases. Nice name, everyone knows Cambridge (nice place/uni), Analytica (gotta be scientific/evidence-based/no-bias). Probably as blame-free as "The Carlyle Group".

[2naSalit]

41. Valid point!

[2naSalit]

40. Ohpleezohpleezohpleeze!!!

[dawnie51]

11. According to Fire and Fury....

Bannon despises the daughter and son in law, and thinks Trump is useful only as far as he tows Bannon's line. Since that ship has sailed, Trump and his offspring are no longer useful

[hvn_nbr_2]

14. Towing Bannon's line

I think you meant "toes" Bannon's line, but "towing Bannon's line" conjures up "interesting" images.

[erronis]

36. Maybe "towing his line" has other (sexual) contexts? The visuals there are too gross, however.

[PatSeg]

12. And it must be killing Bill Maher

to be on hiatus right now.

[GoCubsGo]

45. He's still active on Facebook.

I assume that if he is on Twitter, he's been tweeting up a storm there, as well.

[PatSeg]

49. Still not the same as the TV show

He is probably writing monologues and New Rules in his head.

[Sunlei]

19. I always wondered if Bannon was a mole for authorities.

He has an old history, decades ago when he was young exploiting game currency, foreign workers- internationally. Think I remember him in some kind of serious trouble with authorities back then.

Now as an old man media/whoring for the RW- he managed to attach himself to trump & campaign fairly easy. Republican leaders were always quiet about Bannon hanging around trump, not a peep from them. Wonder if R leadership knows Bannon's a mole and that's why they never complained about him ever.

[unblock]

21. this is why i had thought excommunicating bannon was stupid, but i have another theory

my first reaction was that donnie not only getting rid of bannon but also getting the whole right-wing machine to disavow him was really stupid because then bannon would have no reason not to run to mueller and tell all.


but then i thought, this would have been obvious even to donnie, and while he's really stupid on things like facts and policy, he's not this stupid when it comes to self-preservation.

he is, however, vindictive enough to want to destroy someone who had turned on him.

but merely saying something bad about him to a reporter or an author isn't enough to earn this reaction. he's had people call him a f*cking moron before. he makes them apologize and praise him and demonstrate loyalty and that's that.


but what if bannon *had already* turned on donnie?

now i'm thinking that bannon, in fact, was already cooperating with mueller *before* all this came out, and what the book did was flush out that bannon was the mole. he was the guy on the inside that was giving mueller his intel.

maybe he's deep throat.


*that* would cause donnie to not only fire him but also to get him blacklisted by the entire right-wing machine.



hmmmmm.....

[Squinch]

30. Hmmmm indeed. And just to add an observation, Bannon DID apologize and praise him,

but Trump(R)s response was to slap him away.

So maybe someone in the WH knows what you posit is true.

[BamaRefugee]

23. You're overthinking it

The whole thing with Trump and Bannon is straight out of the professional wrestling handbook (and we know Trump has participated in pro wrestling theatrics), one of the oldest plots ever, where the manager takes his wrestler all the way to the top, then the wrestler turns on him and he's banished, then they fight, then they get back together, then any number of plot twists occur.
This is all designed to keep both of their nincompoop bases busy with something they can understand. Because nothing is more real to those losers than fake wrestling and fake news.

It's all a distraction, and a very handy one, that they can re-ignite instantly anytime, anywhere, that it's convenient for them.

[C_U_L8R]

27. Hero's Journey for Dummies

That must be Trump's roadmap

[eleny]

47. Oh my goodness I bet you're spot on

The scenarios playing out in the Oval Office instead of the rastlin' ring.

[BlueJac]

25. The Plot Thickens.....

[C_U_L8R]

26. Un-Retire Anyway !!

C'mon Keith, jump back in !! The water's lovely !!

[djacq]

31. Please bring back "The Resistance"

The more voices the better.

[Iwasthere]

32. Most on this post are missing the real point

.
The possibility of Keith returning. Even the remotest of that possibly has me excited.

[FakeNoose]

50. Yes! He should partner up with Al Franken

...who's also recently retired! They'd make a great team.

[niyad]

53. it has certainly made my day!!

[DinahMoeHum]

33. Heh heh. Keith's threatening to "unretire"

Hope he does just bthat.

[EricMaundry]

34. Huh. Bannon doesn't want to go down like that

Good strategy to avoid becoming an ignominious disgraced byline in the history books. Poor old sot
wants to be a hero. Well, why not? Trump's downfall will be because of all the enemies he's made.

Bet Bannon's got some juicy stuff. That is what it is going to take to upright his scow.

[Kirk Lover]

46. I read in the WSJ transcript that someone posted that he's saying that he really didn't

even know Steve well, they hardly hung out and he had very little to do with his win. So you know what that means!!!!!

[Ferrets are Cool]

37. Please do "UN"retire Keith. We need you.

[Honeycombe8]

38. I hope he un-retires.

Does he have a large audience?

[McCamy Taylor]

48. Maybe Bannon found himself in need of fed protection

from Russian mob and domestic terrorists.

Does the KGB realize that when they threaten Americans, they are driving them right in to Mueller's arms?

[MFM008]

51. Keith!!!

Do it dammit.
There's sooooooo much material there.

[niyad]

52. PLEASE COME BACK, KO. There is so much left to be done.