
Steve Bannon, the former White House chief strategist with the skin of a rotten potato, is turning on President Donald Trump and his minions.
For all of us who love a good fuss fight, The Guardian obtained an early copy of the new book Fire and Fury, by Michael Wolff, which includes hundreds of interviews, including some with Trump and Bannon.
In the book, Bannon claims that Trump campaign officialsâDonald Trump Jr., then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort and son-in-law Jared Kushnerâwho took a June 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, under the guise of obtaining dirt on Hillary Clinton committed a âtreasonousâ act.
Bannon reportedly told Wolff: âTheyâre going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV,â referring to Trump Jr.âs appearance in front of a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing about his involvement in the meeting.
âThe three senior guys in the campaign thought it was a good idea to meet with a foreign government inside Trump Tower in the conference room on the 25th floorâwith no lawyers,â Bannon said, according to The Guardian. âThey didnât have any lawyers. Even if you thought that this was not treasonous, or unpatriotic, or bad shit, and I happen to think itâs all of that, you should have called the FBI immediately.â
And that isnât all. Bannon also claimed that special counsel Robert Muellerâs investigation into Trumpâs reported ties to Russia is centered on money laundering.
I like where this is heading.
Read more at The Guardian.