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In reply to the discussion: keith just tweeted that Bannon is cooperating with Meuller and he may unretire lol [View all]unblock
(52,116 posts)my first reaction was that donnie not only getting rid of bannon but also getting the whole right-wing machine to disavow him was really stupid because then bannon would have no reason not to run to mueller and tell all.
but then i thought, this would have been obvious even to donnie, and while he's really stupid on things like facts and policy, he's not this stupid when it comes to self-preservation.
he is, however, vindictive enough to want to destroy someone who had turned on him.
but merely saying something bad about him to a reporter or an author isn't enough to earn this reaction. he's had people call him a f*cking moron before. he makes them apologize and praise him and demonstrate loyalty and that's that.
but what if bannon *had already* turned on donnie?
now i'm thinking that bannon, in fact, was already cooperating with mueller *before* all this came out, and what the book did was flush out that bannon was the mole. he was the guy on the inside that was giving mueller his intel.
maybe he's deep throat.
*that* would cause donnie to not only fire him but also to get him blacklisted by the entire right-wing machine.
hmmmmm.....