Still think Trump/Bannon punked everyone on Sat

[Laura PourMeADrink]

Trump and Bannon sitting around pooping their pants over Russia...

Trump: "Steve, I am scared shitless. They are getting closer on this Russian thing. How do we find out if Trump Tower was bugged?"

Bannon: "I got it ! We print a fake story in Breitbart that it was bugged"

Trump: "YA ! And I get OUTRAGED ! "

Bannon: "Yes, and you could even blame Obama ! He will take the bait and say NO WAY and other agencies will back it up and sing like birds. Whatever happens, at least we will know! "

Trump: "Heeeee. It's brilliant, Steve. So glad I have you around ! "

[Saboburns]

1. So yer saying that

Team Trump's plan was to take the heat off the Russian thing by having POTUS look like an outright, unhinged fool.

Be a gutsy plan, but I'm not sure about its effectiveness.

[Bozvotros]

11. I think you have something there...

Film from the press corp outside Trumps Southern White House at Mar a lago.....

[eniwetok]

16. it makes sense if all Trump cares about is his base...

Trump's been trying to drag his base into his dementia from the start.

[brooklynite]

2. No because that would be a thoughtful strategy, which would also including thinking of outcomes

Trump impusively tweets things like this to make HIM the focus of attention...particularly on weekends when there won't be a lot of news.

[Jarqui]

4. It also requires more intelligence that Trump doesn't have

[Laura PourMeADrink]

6. One word: Bannon

[Jarqui]

14. Seven words: they're all a bunch of effin' clowns

Now, their dimwit bimbos are going on about how they don't believe Comey

... forcing Comey to go on TV and blow President Orange Orangutan out of his jungle of stupidity.

A heck of a strategy Bannon has going there ...
... no matter where you project this going, it's not good for them. I don't see how questioning the word of the Director of the FBI is going to help them when they're basing their allegations on stupid alt right conspiracy theorists who have no evidence beyond serious mental illnesses the President of the United States relates to.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

5. I agree..100% - But it could have even been Bannon conniving. He could have

riled him up knowing he would blow his stack.

Let's just assume that where there is smoke like this, there is fire. Surely those involved are scared that people will find out what was said in the inner circle.

Bottom line - after all the crazy - they are left knowing that they have nothing to worry about - as far as conversations in TT. Because all parties who would have been involved in a bugging have firmly denied.
If they didn't plan this - it worked out perfectly for them.

[brooklynite]

7. This "worked out perfectly"?

The President has been challenged by the FBI Director. News outlets are questioning the "stability" of Trump himself.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

12. Yup. But he and they have done it before - like with the millions who voted

illegally.

I don't know, of course, how this happened - but you have to admit - there's
something very fishy about it.

We don't really know how Breitbart, Trump, and Bannon are interacting. Does Breitbart
just publish bs on their own without Bannon knowing? Why did Breitbart publish this ubsubstantiated story? Only to get the heat off? To get their base riled?

Maybe it's Bannon that's happy. Looks like others are trying to retract and get it on the record what they really meant/said - i.e. Gordon. Why not Bannon? What if he knew he had said incriminating stuff? And, he knows how to push the right buttons with Trump? Trump flew him down to FL on Sunday.

[annabanana]

8. And if they ARE being bugged (by an ongoing investigation)

wouldn't that give a harder push for an independent commission?

[nocalflea]

10. I'm beginning to wonder if its

"compulsively tweets" rather than 'impulsively tweets ".

[GreenEyedLefty]

9. My question.

Suppose TT is bugged. Given what I know about FISA (granted, it isn't much) I would assume there is a very good reason to do so. In the face of these accusations, wouldn't the intelligence service lie and say that it isn't, when it is?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

13. I suppose. But, if you didn't know if you were bugged, and everybody who could have

has told you you weren't, at least you could feel a bit better.

[Charles Bukowski]

15. Meh. Trump is the dumbest elected official in the history of the United States.

There's no master plan, no method to his madness. This is a bona-fide Birther we're talking about here - - a man who genuinely believes millions of undocumented immigrants voted for HRC on November 8th.

Trump read a propaganda piece on Breitbart and immediately parroted it on twitter. He makes gaffes like this ALL THE TIME - - the Sweden attack he saw on Fox being a recent example.

Trump really is this stupid. Seriously.

[BumRushDaShow]

17. Nah... Levin manufactured the story Thursday night

after the Beauregard fiasco and presser earlier that day..... Brietbarf published Levin's assertion on Friday and that is also when the frantic tweet storm was generated.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

21. Ok...so why'd Levin manufacture? Just to get the heat off the Sessions story? Couldn't it be all

Couldn't it be all ?

A. Change the subject,
B. Rile up base/dumbass readership
C. See if TT bugged?


OOps -- they (Levin) forget the President of the United States IS part of their dumbass base/readership.

[BumRushDaShow]

22. "Mark Levin"

and that is all that needs be said! His whole modus operandi and reason to be is to manufacture bile against Democrats and liberals/progressives, and spew it on every show.

[OliverQ]

18. Clapper said he saw no evidence of Russia collusion by the time he left

That's discouraging, but hopefully all the intel just hadn't come out yet at that point.

[BainsBane]

19. He didn't need to do any of them to get information from the intelligence agencies

All he had to do is ask.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

20. like he knows that:) part of his problem is that he is surrounded by government know-nothings.