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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"I see some bad press in his future": Bannon ally hints damaging leaks are coming on Jared Kushner
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/i-see-some-bad-press-in-his-future-bannon-ally-hints-damaging-leaks-are-coming-on-jared-kushner/
Axios Jonathan Swan reports that Bannon has been telling associates that he loves a gun fight and that he will continue fighting what he sees as the globalist wing of the White House, which includes Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner.
According to Swans sources, the Kushner faction believes that Bannon and his allies are clinically nuts, while Bannons team believes Kushner is trying to transform Trump into a moderate Republican squish.
Most interestingly, one of Bannons allies hints that Kushner will be the target of upcoming leaks that will damage his public reputation.
Steve has developed strong and important relationships with some of the most powerful right leaning business leaders, the Bannon ally told Swan. I see some bad press in Jareds future.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,248 posts)Pick your metaphor!
byronius
(7,402 posts)Dulcinea
(6,670 posts)louis-t
(23,309 posts)there won't be anyone left.
TeamPooka
(24,264 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,219 posts)And the rest of us can escape.
erronis
(15,382 posts)Hypocrites all. Most politicians and all evangelical zealots.
The real people get reamed.
Johonny
(20,913 posts)president, could be extremely amusing for the rest of us. Bannon might be going bye-bye for good.
SticksnStones
(2,108 posts)Than Jared. Metaphorically speaking, of course ~
kcr
(15,320 posts)It's gonna get good!
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Too scarry to enjoy. However, watching the two wings in DTs camp leak the dirt on each other...I'm w you.
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)I could believe anything of this criminal conspiracy!!!
SticksnStones
(2,108 posts)when they cobble together conspiracies in any and all things Democratic...I'll stick with the "metaphorically"
mountain grammy
(26,658 posts)"the people" elected Bannon. He was the choice. The inaugural address spoke directly from Bannon to trump voters.
SticksnStones
(2,108 posts)mountain grammy
(26,658 posts)all Bannon and every trump voter I personally know. The "carnage" of course, being liberals, Democrats, etc, etc, etc.
duncang
(1,907 posts)to try to find cannon fodder on jared. Maybe even adding more to his "insurance" list on dipshit donnie.
rpannier
(24,342 posts)brought on by his high cholesterol and obesity -- aided of course by a small pin prick in the neck. Mosquito no doubt
Freethinker65
(10,070 posts)I honestly knew nothing about him until a bit before the inauguration. No wonder it was reported he recently hired a PR firm to define himself.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)BannonsLiver
(16,508 posts)As in he's parking his you know what in places that it shouldn't be parked. I'm hoping that's part of it. Full humiliation. Marriage falls apart etc.
MontanaMama
(23,356 posts)bwahaaahaaahaaa! Good one.
Ilsa
(61,707 posts)He's the opposite of Bannon when it comes to taking care of his looks. His eyebrows look tweezed or stringed so that they are well-shaped and not bushy.
Ilsa
(61,707 posts)Put up with his daughter's husband cheating on her. That could get really ugly.
Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)mountain grammy
(26,658 posts)Ilsa
(61,707 posts)calimary
(81,527 posts)This:
"I WORKED WITH JARED KUSHNER. HE'S THE WRONG BUSINESSMAN TO REINVENT GOVERNMENT."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/03/30/i-worked-with-jared-kushner-hes-the-wrong-businessman-to-reinvent-government/?tid=pm_opinions_pop&utm_term=.8e052b8c6f72
And this:
JARED KUSHNER HIRES HOLLYWOOD EXECUTIVE WHOSE LAST JOB WAS DOING PR FOR HORROR FLICKS
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2017/04/05/jared-kushner-hires-hollywood-executive-whose-last-job-was-doing-pr-for-horror-flicks/?utm_term=.befc899e5a5f#comment
There they go again. Thinking they can run the government like a business. How many decades are we going to have to argue this?
It.
Just.
Doesn't.
Work.
Because they're NOT the same thing!
It.
Just.
Doesn't.
Work.
!!!
mr_liberal
(1,017 posts)Solly Mack
(90,792 posts)As long as they are only shooting at each other.
But bullets don't have eyes....yet.
Just my way of saying they can get us too is all.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)HAB911
(8,922 posts)Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)Justice
(7,188 posts)flamingdem
(39,332 posts)Let the sliming begin!!!!!
kimbutgar
(21,224 posts)But because her father does it she turns a blind eye. Especially when she is pregnant.
nycbos
(6,039 posts)LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)He looks demented to me.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)I looked up this info before election. The site I found had tons of 666 references in regards to Trump. It said that Trump owned the property at 666 5th Ave, but further googling showed that Kushner was in fact the owner.
colorado_ufo
(5,738 posts)This is a Christian prophecy.
ToxMarz
(2,169 posts)MontanaMama
(23,356 posts)His eyes look dead.
?1485811473
FailureToCommunicate
(14,026 posts)MontanaMama
(23,356 posts)Lifeless. I couldn't wake up to those eyes every day.
murielm99
(30,777 posts)MontanaMama
(23,356 posts)And to think these two had kids! I can't decide if Ivanka is evil or clueless or both. Regardless, it doesn't bode well for their poor babies... 😢
Mike Nelson
(9,973 posts)...all look so sleazy. Character actors will have a field day when they make movies about these folks!
CrispyQ
(36,540 posts)LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)This inside turmoil can only help clear out the cock roaches. Bannon has scared me from the first moment I began to research his background. I had never heard of him before this election. Another poster mentioned kushner being unknown. His name was familiar to me but I had no clue about who he really was. May have heard the name during my short time living in NYC.
meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)A nightly soap opera like Dallas or Dynasty. Good grief. So much ego and entitlement in this administration. Everyone jockeying for power and control. Nothing will ever get done because everyone is fighting for position and leaking and trying to destroy reputations and careers. And we're only 77 days into this shit show
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)Tanuki
(14,924 posts)This week was Bannon's turn to be told, "You're fired!" Will Jared's alliance with the boss' daughter spare him the same fate?
meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)I haven't watched that trash show since maybe the first season. Then I began to hate Trump back then and never watched again.
I guess we get to watch Washington Apprentice whether we like it or not.
sheshe2
(83,954 posts)eleny
(46,166 posts)kcr
(15,320 posts)I have a feeling the next plot twist is going to be really good.
I sometimes find myself saying "Oh, this is getting really good!!!"
But then I remember it's real life and not a TV shown.
bagelsforbreakfast
(1,427 posts)He was promised he'd be president while Trump golfed all day. Now he's 3rd string behind Bannon and Kushner.
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)AwakeAtLast
(14,134 posts)He's such a good little doggie <pant, pant>
Tanuki
(14,924 posts)EllieBC
(3,042 posts)Thank you for reminding me to re-read some Christie.
dalton99a
(81,636 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,097 posts)These people are all out for themselves, and will not think twice about turning around and stabbing their allies in the back when they cease to be useful.
Golden Raisin
(4,614 posts)ProfessorPlum
(11,279 posts)must be Bannon's way of saying Jewish.
There's no way that doesn't play a part in this. the ugly anti-semitism of the alt-right will find a way to be expressed, even against the BLOTUS's son in law.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,347 posts)Orrex
(63,233 posts)You're exactly right to call it out.
Interesting times, interesting times.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Initech
(100,108 posts)Bannon was just the first. It's Trump's way of saying "get in line maggots!", like the wannabe drill instructor that he is.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)he seems to some kind of intelligence if he could work in real estate. Never thought he was a genius of course. I mean he got through law school.
yet, he just seems to be a Trump branded mannequin. He tags along carrying out all these outlandish "duties" he woefully unqualified for and all it seems to be is that he propped up in a chair, they put a smile on his face and the people who really know what is going on talk.
None of the pictures I see of him show him talking, taking notes what have you.
Just a mannequin in the Trump Presidency self enrichment enterprise window.
colorado_ufo
(5,738 posts)he is trapped, and he has no way out that I can see. By debt, marriage, and possibly blackmail, he is the man who can't say "no."
ProfessorPlum
(11,279 posts)Assumes facts NOT in evidence.
What we know is that his family is very rich. Rich != smart.
We also know that his father bribed Harvard (and Cornell, if I remember correctly) to the tune of more than a $milllion to make sure he would get admitted somewhere.
A legacy dunce. Just like his father and brothers-in law.
colorado_ufo
(5,738 posts)from Harvard?
ProfessorPlum
(11,279 posts)well, that's something I didn't know.
That's good news for the US, since he is in charge of everything. At least he's not a total drooling moron.
karynnj
(59,507 posts)Like his father in law, he started with a wealth of valuable real estate assets and might have gambled with 666 5th Avenue and ended in a debt that could have been difficult to maintain -- except that he has rich in laws. Do you similarly say that Donald Trump has to be intelligent too?
It's not like he is a top scientist, expert in anything, brain surgeon etc.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)Particularly when your boss is not particularly deep thinking and is vindictive.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)Javaman
(62,534 posts)when it comes right down to it?
it won't be bannon, that's for damn sure.
so let bannon go off half cocked.
If he's under the impression that, "if I go down, they all go down" he's going to be sadly disappointed.
this is getting more and more like profession wrestling soap operas.
rivegauche
(601 posts)They can all eat each other and then maybe we can get back to sanity.
90-percent
(6,829 posts)has #45 every fired any other family member? Boy this is going to schadenfreude fun when Jared's sleaze gets released! Trump's history of swindling and betraying his business partners is the added secret schadenfreude sauce.
-90% Jimmy
barbtries
(28,813 posts)the whole rotten unamerican lot of them.
luvMIdog
(2,533 posts)SleeplessinSoCal
(9,156 posts)Bannon the zealot has been humiliated. And like any sociopath will strike without fear of consequences.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)malthaussen
(17,217 posts)Let them eat their young, one by one.
-- Mal
DinahMoeHum
(21,815 posts)Nitram
(22,913 posts)Great for morale, great for the nation.
Mr. Ected
(9,673 posts)Damned straight there's going to be some damning news reported against Kushner in the coming days and weeks.
But the source of the upcoming leaks is not going to be Breitbart, FOX or any of the other fake news outlets.
It'll be legitimate. It will be Rachel. It'll be Malcolm Nance. It'll be the Senate Intelligence Committee. It'll spell real trouble for Kushner and Trumpco.
The right wingers will try to equivocate this with the fake news that will also spew against Kushner. It's their smokescreen, obscuring and confusing the truth.
Cary
(11,746 posts)What if it turned out that Jared Kushner was the real deal and turned this whole Trump debacle around?
I'm confused.
Warpy
(111,383 posts)if Dolt kept him on the NSC after he'd appointed himself by shoving paper under Dolt's nose for him to sign.
I think he'll likely leak like a sieve for a while about his replacements.
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Warpy
(111,383 posts)Bannon is the Peanuts character, grown up and taking lessons from Lucy.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)What a bunch of petty mean-spirited assholes. I hope they get out there and show everyone how dirty they all are.
sellitman
(11,608 posts)Kushner is a Jew. I wondered how long this marriage would last. I guessed not long. I was right.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)alarimer
(16,245 posts)But then that whole Administration is crooked.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Place your bets and pass the mashed potatoes!
bora13
(860 posts)t-rump can't have this guy married to his daughter.
she is all for him.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Bannon would be banished. I don't think Bannon's that stupid.
napi21
(45,806 posts)the Con's family comes FIRST! I don' t care what Bannon does, the Con's money will beat it. I must admit, I'll really enjoy seeing his big fat butt kicked out.
moonscape
(4,674 posts)overplaying his hand.
ecstatic
(32,748 posts)That's probably the only thing that would turn papa Trump against him.
DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)But this is more than Bannon vs Kushner. It's Rebekha Mercer and her clan pursuing their agenda through Bannon. The Mercers have propped up Breitbart for years and be-friended both Bannon and Kellyann Conway. Jane Mayer reported in her story on the Mercers how Rebekha was recommending cabinet choices some, but not all, of whom were nominated and confirmed. The Mercers are the conduit through which Trump was introduced to "the crazies".
To Trump, the Mercers are "other people's money" for him to access and use. Using OPM is one of Trump's defining characteristics. The Mercers and their allies are only relevent to the extent they help make Trump popular, accepted and loved. Right now, nothing their man Bannon or girl Conway have done do that, in fact, the opposite, their schemes have made Trump more unpopular than ever. That makes the Mercer's and their allies disposable in Trumpworld.
OTOH, we have Kusher married to Ivanka who is her dad's closest advisor. They both seem very protective of the other, too. If Bannon/Mercers try to smear Kusher, it will not end well for them given Trump's devotion to Ivanka and Jared and his compulsion for revenge.