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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBannon worked to keep 'fallback guy' Pence away from 'wrong meetings' on Russia inside WH: Wolff
Bannon worked to keep fallback guy Pence away from wrong meetings on Russia inside White House: WolffBRAD REED
05 JAN 2018 AT 10:48 ET
Its been widely reported that former White House political strategist Steve Bannon thought that Donald Trump Jr.s infamous Trump Tower meeting with Russian officials was treasonous. However, author Michael Wolff also claims that Bannon worried that Vice President Mike Pence was similarly attending problematic meetings and he worked to protect him from them because he saw Pence as a solid backup plan in the event of President Donald Trumps impeachment.
Specifically, Bannon worried about Pence taking meetings with Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner and First Daughter Ivanka Trump, whom hed decided were, in Wolffs words, Russia toxic.
Bannon often boasted that his personal antagonism toward Jared and Ivanka as well as his own hermit-like disposition kept him safe from being caught up in special counsel Robert Muellers Russia probe.
Ive never been to Russia, Bannon told Wolff. I dont know anybody from Russia. Ive never spoken to any Russians. And Id just as well not speak to anyone who has. However, Bannon found that Pence was regularly taking meetings with the presidents daughter and her husband and he tried to make sure Pence kept his distance from both of them.
Bannon observed a hapless Pence in a lot of wrong meetings, and helped to bring in the Republican operative Nick Ayers as Pences chief of staff, and to get our fallback guy out of the White House and running around the world and looking like a vice president,' writes Wolff.
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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/bannon-worked-to-keep-fallback-guy-pence-away-from-wrong-meetings-on-russia-inside-white-house-wolff/
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Bannon worked to keep 'fallback guy' Pence away from 'wrong meetings' on Russia inside WH: Wolff (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jan 2018
OP
Pence was in charge of the transition, and he's totally tainted. Too little, too late.
L. Coyote
Jan 2018
#1
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)1. Pence was in charge of the transition, and he's totally tainted. Too little, too late.
The end days are here for Trumpism:
THREAD: Today's NYT revelations aid Mueller's obstruction investigation.
Link to tweet
Greybnk48
(10,169 posts)2. We already know Pence lied about what he
knew about Flynn. Lied under oath. So he is unfit to take the office as well (not to mention the fact that he is crazy).
dchill
(38,514 posts)3. Too little too late for "Hapless Pence," Steve...
He's already deeply in the loop. Haplessly? I don't know.
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)4. Starting to look like Bannon's participation with the Wolff interviews
was designed to try to stay out of jail. He probably realized, much earlier than the other WH bozos, that the Russia shit was getting real...