Trump's full statement on Bannon

[spanone]

Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind. Steve was a staffer who worked for me after I had already won the nomination by defeating seventeen candidates, often described as the most talented field ever assembled in the Republican Party.

Now that he is on his own, Steve is learning that winning isn't as easy as I make it look. Steve had very little to do with our historic victory, which was delivered by the forgotten men and women of this country. Yet Steve had everything to do with the loss of a Senate seat in Alabama held for more than thirty years by Republicans. Steve doesn't represent my base — he's only in it for himself.

Steve pretends to be at war with the media, which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at the White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was. It is the only thing he does well. Steve was rarely in a one-on-one meeting with me and only pretends to have had influence to fool a few people with no access and no clue, whom he helped write phony books.

We have many great Republican members of Congress and candidates who are very supportive of the Make America Great Again agenda. Like me, they love the United States of America and are helping to finally take our country back and build it up, rather than simply seeking to burn it all down.

http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/03/politics/trump-statement-steve-bannon/index.html

[question everything]

1. Of course Bannon had nothing to do with his win

We all know it is: "i," "I," "I."

[VMA131Marine]

2. So is this real, or is it a setup to distract from something bigger?

[JHan]

3. lol

[SHRED]

4. Like BB King sang...

"The thrill is gone".

[leftstreet]

5. Trump is finally denouncing a white nationalist!

Took long enough

[Wellstone ruled]

9. Just helpiing the Druggie sell some books.

Donnie still has his buddy Steve Miller aka Jeff Sessions chief aide.

[L. Coyote]

6. Andy Borowitz: "Trump Calls Bannon One of Least Important Nazis in Campaign"

[Roland99]

7. Who REALLY wrote that, though?

[spanone]

8. well, they used the trump style, bragging in almost every paragraph

[procon]

10. It wasn't written by a professional, and Trump would never sit down

long enough to write anything. There are too many big words, too many syllables, for Trump, who speaks in short, declarative sentences and repeats the same words and phrases over and over.

It reads like a teenage girl's diary. Using his adversary's first name, the diminutive Steve, rather than his full name or just his last name, is a common mistake that many inexperienced women in public relations make. Maybe it's Hope Hicks work, she is Trump's Communications Director and has worked on some of his other speeches.