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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 12:02 PM Jan 2017

Trump's ex-Breitbart advisor Bannon is drafting executive orders - and basically winging it: report

TRAVIS GETTYS
26 JAN 2017 AT 10:12 ET

Two of Donald Trump’s senior advisors — neither of whom has any previous government or legal experience — have reportedly been writing executive orders without any input from the agencies they would effect.

Aides told Politico that Steve Bannon, the president’s chief strategist, and Stephen Miller, the senior White House advisor for policy, have made almost no effort to consult with federal agency lawyers or lawmakers as they wrote executive orders.

Bannon, the former chairman of Breitbart, and Miller, a Republican political operative who’s written most of Trump’s major speeches, are writing many of the orders based on ideas that came from transition officials or “landing teams” who weren’t working in the White House.

The orders have come so quickly, and from seemingly out of nowhere, that aides sometimes aren’t even sure which actions Trump will sign until they cross his desk. “He was determined to show people that he’s getting to work from Day One,” a source told Politico.

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http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/trumps-ex-breitbart-advisor-bannon-is-drafting-executive-orders-and-basically-winging-it-report/

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Trump's ex-Breitbart advisor Bannon is drafting executive orders - and basically winging it: report (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2017 OP
So Breitbart is now in charge of Executive Orders. And to think that Republicans were aghast Trust Buster Jan 2017 #1
For some reason get the red out Jan 2017 #4
The main point is that someone who utilizes White Supremacists w/ties to Putin KittyWampus Jan 2017 #5
I am being proven right again and again. We should all type Trump/Bannon KittyWampus Jan 2017 #2
On Orders from the Heritage Foundation, no doubt. MineralMan Jan 2017 #3
Idiocracy or kakistocracy ... GeorgeGist Jan 2017 #6
 

Trust Buster

(7,299 posts)
1. So Breitbart is now in charge of Executive Orders. And to think that Republicans were aghast
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 12:08 PM
Jan 2017

with President Obama's E.O's. Hypocritical Republicans in Congress remain silent.

 

KittyWampus

(55,894 posts)
5. The main point is that someone who utilizes White Supremacists w/ties to Putin
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 12:15 PM
Jan 2017

and is using Putin's tactics in propaganda and civilian control is managing Trump.

 

KittyWampus

(55,894 posts)
2. I am being proven right again and again. We should all type Trump/Bannon
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 12:14 PM
Jan 2017

instead of just "Trump".

And Bannon is using Trump's mental instability on purpose.

He's hardening Trump supporters. That 30% base to believe anything and to feel outraged.

He wants to use that 30% as civilian shock troops.

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” -Voltaire

MineralMan

(146,325 posts)
3. On Orders from the Heritage Foundation, no doubt.
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 12:14 PM
Jan 2017

Has the content of those Executive Orders been released?

OK, I checked. We can read them at:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions

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