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Steve Bannon Calls Don Jr.’s Meeting With Russians ‘Treasonous’
Trump Supporters Complain That Too Many Blacks Are On Grand Jury Probing Russian Interference In Election
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon called the 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Trump campaign offi- cials and a Russian lawyer pur- portedly offering damaging information about Hillary Clinton "treasonous," accord- ing to a new book obtained by The Guardian.
Donald Trump’s friend and former chief strategist, alt right leader Steve Bannon has de- scribed the Trump Tower meet- ing between the president’s son and a group of Russians during the 2016 election campaign as “treasonous” and “unpatriotic”, according to an explosive new book, “Fire And Fury: Inside the Trump White House”, seen by the Guardian.
Bannon, speaking to author Michael Wolff, warned that the investigation into alleged collusion with the Kremlin will focus on money laundering and predicted: “They’re going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV.”
Fire and Fury, reportedly is based on more than 200 inter- views with the president, his inner circle and players in and around the administration, is one of the most eagerly awaited political books of the year.
Steve Bannon was once Presi- dent Trump’s top aide before Gen. Kelly was named Chief of Staff for the White House. Now Bannon has spilled the tea on the Trump White House.
In it, Wolff lifts the lid on a White House lurching from cri- sis to crisis, with even some of Trump’s closest allies expressing contempt for him.
Bannon went on, Wolff writes, to say that if any such meeting had to take place, it should have been set up “in a Holiday Inn in Manchester, New Hampshire, with your lawyers who meet with these people”. (Instead, Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner met with the Russian lawyer on the 25th floor of Trump Towers with no Amer- ican lawyers present). Any in- formation, he said, could then be “dump[ed] ... down to Breit- bart or something like that, or maybe some other more legiti- mate publication”.
Supporters of President Donald Trump have opened a new line of attack on the in- vestigation into Russian inter- ference in the 2016 election: They think special counsel Robert Mueller’s federal grand jury has too many Black people on it.
A Trump associate who “re- cently testified” complained to New York Post that the mem- bers of the grand jury in Wash- ington looked like they came from ‘a Black Lives Matter’ protest.
“The grand jury room looks like a Bernie Sanders rally,” the witness told Page Six. “Maybe they found these jurors in central casting, or at a Black Lives Matter rally in Berkeley.”
The complainant contended that 11 of the 20 grand jurors in the room during the testimony were African-Americans, which isn’t a surprising figure because of the demographics of Black people living in D.C.
The witness also went on to say that there “was only one
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is now being attacked by Trump supporters attempting to derail the investigation.
white male in the room, and he was a prosecutor.”
If the witness recently testi- fied before the grand jury, which is charged with deter- mining whether there’s proba- ble cause to indict any additional Trump campaign figures, that witness presum- ably knows a lot about what precisely the grand jury in- quiry is focused on at this point.
But instead of pursuing that story, the Post on its infamous, Page Six gave a sympathetic airing to the witness’s com-
plaints about the racial makeup of the grand jury ― though the story did include a “racism” tag.
The story has gained trac- tion in conservative media cir- cles, namely, Fox & Friends. On Wednesday, President Trump’s favorite morning news show — host Brian Kilmeade argued that Special Counsel Robert Mueller was not “demographically pursuing justice“ in the Russia investi- gation because his federal grand jury included too many Black jurors.
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