Bannon described Trump Organization as 'criminal enterprise', Michael Wolff book claims

[Judi Lynn]

Former White House adviser says financial investigations will take down president in sequel to Fire and Fury

Edward Helmore
Wed 29 May 2019 02.00 EDT Last modified on Wed 29 May 2019 10.12 EDT

The former White House adviser Steve Bannon has described the Trump Organization as a criminal entity and predicted that investigations into the president’s finances will lead to his political downfall, when he is revealed to be “not the billionaire he said he was, just another scumbag”.

The startling remarks are contained in Siege: Trump Under Fire, the author Michael Wolff’s forthcoming account of the second year of the Trump administration. The book, published on 4 June, is a sequel to Fire and Fury: Trump in the White House, which was a bestseller in 2018. The Guardian obtained a copy.

In a key passage, Bannon is reported as saying he believes investigations of Donald Trump’s financial history will provide proof of the underlying criminality of his eponymous company.

Assessing the president’s exposure to various investigations, many seeded by the special counsel Robert Mueller during his investigation of Russian election interference, Wolff writes: “Trump was vulnerable because for 40 years he had run what increasingly seemed to resemble a semi-criminal enterprise.”

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/28/bannon-trump-organization-criminal-enterprise-comments-michael-wolff-book

[murielm99]

1. My husband bought his first book.

I read it. I am not telling him what to do, but I hope he does not waste money on the second book. He can get it from the library.