Does Anyone Think That Bannon Might Be Blackmailing Trump.....

[global1]

Maybe Bannon has the video of Trump's golden shower incident.

I just can't figure out how he managed to have so much influence with Trump. How did Trump and Bannon meet? How long has he been tight with Trump?

Was Bannon a minion of the Repug Party and is that how Trump got introduced to Bannon? Is Bannon a Repug plant?

[underthematrix]

1. No I don't think he's blackmailing him. I think Trump is quite literally incapacitated

He's 70 years old, seems to have a phobia about stairs and inclines. He's can't read, write and comprehend complex information. He seems to have an impaired memory and he extremely emotionally immature.

Trmp simply cannot perform his duties and the GOP knew this BEFORE he became their nominee.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. +1

[KittyWampus]

5. what you said. Trump is LITERALLY incompetent mentally, physically, emotionally

and psychologically.

George W. Bush had a hard enough time keeping it together and he had political experience.

Trump is literally the tiny orange hand signing stuff and Bannon just keeps the chaos flowing to try and break down our functional democracy.

[Bradical79]

9. Yeah, it's a "partnership"

Even young healthy Trump was a racist shitbag with fascist leanings and a facination with Hitler. Bannon is a like minded individual who can tell him what to do, has connections, and also has a good sized media company that will always say nice things about him.

Bannon may have blackmail material, but like Russia, he would find little practical use for it at the moment as Trump is a pretty agreable puppet.

[Frogg]

2. Putin

Two white nationalists got together...he is the orchestration of the big oil deal!

[LisaL]

4. No. I think Trump believes that Bannon has great ideas.

[canetoad]

6. Not blackmailing

I think Bannon has convinced DFT that he is indispensible. He chaired the winning campaign and got him elected when everything looked impossible. That's what I think the hold over DFT is.

[bathroommonkey76]

7. This description of Bannon from a VF article is very scary.

"A former employee of Breitbart described him to me as “Donald Trump but more intelligent.” He didn’t mean it as a compliment, and was instead referring to the opportunism, the personal vindictiveness, and the lack of a moral center that have become defining characteristics of Trump."

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/breitbart-stephen-bannon-donald-trump-master-plan

[Phoenix61]

8. Twitler admires men he perceives as strong

Bannon would fit the bill for him. And while Bannon may be evil incarnate, I haven't come across anything indicating he is stupid. I expect it is child's play for Bannon to manipulate Twitler. My guess is he will try to undermine Jared or at least keep him out of the country so he has free reign with Twitler.

[JI7]

10. no, Bannon Feeds Trump's Ego

he knows how to get on Trump's good side by doing that.

and someone who thinks Trump is great just has to be right on everything unlike those who don't think so.

[world wide wally]

11. The White House has become a snake pit and Bannon is just the loudest snake

[moondust]

12. Bannon/Trump/Putin?

After a little searching Google I found something that looks interesting but I don't know what to make of it:

November 9-10, 2013: Trump holds Miss Universe pageant in Moscow, hopes Putin will show up. Was probably in town at least a few days.

November 12, 2013: Bannon was interviewed and told a guy he was a Leninist who wanted to "destroy the state."

Was the Lenin remark meant to attract Putin's attention? Were Bannon and Trump acquainted or working together at that time? (My search didn't reveal when or how Bannon and Trump met.) Putin would have certainly been interested in an American running a propaganda website who said he was a Leninist and wanted to destroy the state, particularly if he was associated with this billionaire running the Miss Universe pageant who was known to have some political aspirations.

[WheelWalker]

13. History will judge DTJ to be non compos mentis. He is being handled as a Russian asset by Bannon,

at the direction of Rashputin himself. That's my guess.

[Solly Mack]

14. No

Bannon and Conway were both the idea of Rebekah Mercer. She pushed for them to be hired.

Bannon and Conway are longtime Mercer hacks.

Bannon thought at one time that Palin would be the perfect candidate to push his agenda.

Then he thought Trump would be, and with Trump has found success.

Bannon and Conway both know to stroke Trump's ego just right.

They can work him and use him, and Trump won't mind being used as long as he gets the accolades and the financial rewards.

Trump probably sees it as a mutually benefiting relationship but the truth is, it's a Bannon OP all the way.

[Princess Turandot]

15. Why bother with something illegal when Trump's so easy to manipulate?..nt

[eShirl]

16. I don't think he needs to.

[no_hypocrisy]

17. No it's more malignant than blackmail.

Bannon is saying all the right things to Trump and has been granted carte blanche to make Trump's decisions.

I'd say the closest thing to compare this with is King Lear out in the storm with the Fool, but the Fool plans to take over the throne.