White House Concedes That Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller Wrote Much of Trump's Speech

[DonViejo]

Source: Mediaite

by Justin Baragona | 12:20 pm, January 21st, 2017

Earlier this week, it was reported that President Donald Trump wrote his inauguration speech himself, with CNN stating that two Trump transition officials told them he had written the draft. The report further noted that the president told historian Douglas Brinkley last month that he was writing the address.

Trump would also post an image on social media of him purportedly working on the speech while at Mar-a-Lago weeks ago.

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Well, it appears that Trump wasn’t telling the full truth, per a White House official.

As reported by the Wall Street Journal last night, advisers Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon were responsible for much of the speech.

Read more: http://www.mediaite.com/online/white-house-concedes-that-steve-bannon-and-stephen-miller-wrote-much-of-trumps-speech/

[dalton99a]

1. Plus they had to plagiarize.

[jehop61]

5. I saw

That they took lines from the movie Avatar. Lol

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. Actually, no. Snopes has already debunked this.

http://www.snopes.com/trump-inaugural-address-plagiarism/

Anyhow, people who write screenplays for Hollywood movies usually produce better lines than the Tromp/Bannon/Miller dreck.

[jehop61]

25. Thank you

Hate when lies are told no matter what party

[NBachers]

16. No, they took lines from Ted Bundy.

[NCjack]

20. Trump must fire Miller and Bannon. Fire them NOW.

[elleng]

2. 'Well, it appears that Trump wasnt telling the full truth.'

No sh*t, sherlock!

[mpcamb]

21. In a lotta places they have a word for ones who don't tell the truth. We call them "LIARS"!!!!

Hopefully the press will get around to using this description soon.

[elleng]

41. I think it's happening already.

Have heard it on tv, and read it somewhere. We STILL have work to do, but the press is there already.

[randr]

3. Trump will never write a speech on his own

Doesn't give him anyone to blame when the shit hits the fan

[MattP]

4. If the speech was well received he would still be taking credit

Now that it's a flaming pile of trash he admits he didn't write it

[3catwoman3]

27. Good...

...point.

[George II]

6. From what I read about it, it seemed that trump didn't even bother reading it in advance.

[Retrograde]

7. " it appears that Trump wasnt telling the full truth"

How is this late-breaking news?

No matter who wrote it, Trump read the words and either agrees with them or is a bigger stooge than I thought. Such a nasty man.

[jpak]

8. Lying puppet

yup

[redstatebluegirl]

9. That is why is sounded so dark and angry.

[Phoenix61]

10. So Miller and Bannon

wrote a speech that is being ripped apart and held up to ridicule around the world. Now that's funny. Couple more of those incidents and Trump will turn on them in a heart beat.

[madaboutharry]

11. The trump administration will lie

about everything. The start point is understanding that whatever they say is a lie

[Generator]

12. Fucking Nazi scum

Fight these people until they kill you because they want you dead.

[matt819]

13. Is there a website just tracking the lies?

Don't need commentary. Just a list of lies and how they are found to be lies, even when it's his own people who essentially tell us that their boss lied.

[Thor_MN]

35. Well, that would pretty musc everything he says.

to get just the lies would be dropping whatever greeting he uses and two, maybe three sentence fragments.

[wildeyed]

14. Obviously.

The speech was heinous, but also a perfectly crafted piece of propaganda. No way Trump has the wit, skill or attention span to write a thing like that. He put a photo up of himself "writing" the speech, but he is sitting at his receptionists desk and using a sharpie on a legal pad. So foolish!

[3catwoman3]

28. And curling the top of the legal pad away...

...from the camera, hoping to hide the completely blank page. And who sits around in a suit and tie while rough drafting a speech?

[tblue37]

38. A legal pad lifted up at one corner--in a way that would make

writing on it virtually impossible, but that does serve the purpose of hiding the fact that the page is completely blank.

[NCjack]

17. He did not even read it before mouthing the words at his inauguration?

Bannon and Miller just made their boss into a total fool by writing him a shitty speech.

On the world stage, Trump is going to get ripped apart. (Hey you dummy Trump: when it's important, you have to prepare and practice.)

[Grammy23]

18. I've written speeches on numerous occasions for my job,

as well as for volunteer work I have done. When I hand wrote them, there were scratch outs, arrows pointing where I wanted to shift a sentence and sometimes wads of paper tossed around the room.

In time, I usually composed my speeches on my laptop so it was neater but still the same process. I often printed out a draft and read it out loud to check flow and continuity. Hard copies would have arrows, scratch outs just like when I wrote speeches by hand,

I can think of NO reason to use a Sharpie since they tend to bleed through the paper. I suspect that tRump carries a Sharpie in his pocket to write his autograph on various objects so that was handy to stage the so-called "tRump hard at work" writing that awful speech.

After the universally awful critiques of his diatribe, I am not surprised he is backing off of saying he wrote it. Lies are pretty much par for the course for this jackass. But even liars like tRump don't exactly want to be tainted with that steaming pile of a speech.

[3catwoman3]

29. See my comment #28 a couple above yours.

The scenario you describe is exactly what it used to look like when I was writing papers in grad school. No word processors in the early 1980s - legal pads and a manual typewriter. What I wouldn't have given for a word processor, seeing as I was always editing, right up until the last moment.

[Historic NY]

19. He ought to "fired them"...........

because it was a catastrophic cacophony of bullshit.

[lark]

22. Everything he does, every single thing is simply in support of lies.

Unless it enriches him personally, it's a total lie. OMG, he's talking to CIA, saying how he respects them when for tbe last year they have been "so wrong, so stupid". They haven't forgotten, wonder if he has paid clappers there again like he did at his rallies and the inauguration. He certainly did not reassure anyone or win any friends. They know a blow job when they see it.

God, I hope they bring him down.

[louis-t]

23. That's going to take some getting used to.

'White House' meaning the report is coming from Stupid Fuck.

[X_Digger]

32. Amen. n/t

[bluedigger]

24. And it still sucked?

I thought we had professional propagandists working in the WH now.

[underpants]

26. Fake fake fake. They stole a pic from Obama's inauguration, lied about this speech

the fake tweet about lied about this speech etc

The whole thing is fake.

[TheCowsCameHome]

30. Being over 140 characters should've been the first clue.

Trump couldn't have written it.

[roamer65]

31. Bannon is a cancer on the human race.

[TomCADem]

33. In Other Words, Trump Lied Again...

nt

[Raine]

34. It was obvious he was unfamiliar with the whole thing, he was halting in

his reading of it.

[Solly Mack]

36. K&R

[kairos12]

37. That speech will the opening scene of the next Purge Movie.

[KewlKat]

39. I think banhim and heir muller took the wrap so the Con just looks like a liar vs someone

that once again plagiarized speech material.......

[sarcasmo]

40. I would bet that Bannon wrote the Bane line.