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Then, looking right into my eyes, he says with swelling pride, "It's the closest this country will ever come to having a Hitler!"

On the other hand the statements imputed to him are inconsistent, so that undermines any tendencies to put credence in their accuracy. Bannon is, if nothing else, consistent.

Those who suspect Wolff may have fabricated the quote aren’t the first to accuse him of such behavior. In 1998, the now defunct Bill’s Content reported that some of the people quoted in Wolff’s book Burn Rate said the author “invented or changed quotes.” And on Wednesday, The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman said another person quoted in Wolff’s most recent book has made similar claims.

Wolff quoted Thomas Barrack, a friend and adviser to the president, in Fire and Fury, saying of Trump, “He’s not not only crazy, he's stupid.” “Barrack said he spoke to Wolffe once, says he never said the quote attributed to him to Wolffe or anyone,” Haberman tweeted. "’Totally false,’ Barrack said by phone just now.”

I wonder what good ole Harry would have threatened him with if he had called Margaret a "traitor," eh?

Heh, Hi, leave it to you to entirely miss the point, eh?

hard to see how playing a piano, even poorly, could be considered an act of treason.

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Heh, Hi, leave it to you to entirely miss the point, eh?

Heh, lay, leave it to you to unthinkingly take the bait, eh?

Breaking news:

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, took the unusual step on Wednesday of suing the special counsel and asking a federal court to narrow his authority.

NYT

He sued both Mr. Mueller and Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who appointed him. The lawsuit said Mr. Rosenstein had improperly given Mr. Mueller the authority to investigate “anything he stumbles across while investigating, no matter how remote.”

Mr. Manafort asked a federal judge to reject Mr. Mueller’s appointment as overly broad. He asked a judge to dismiss the indictment against him and issue an order prohibiting Mr. Mueller from investigating anything beyond Russian meddling in the election.

Paul Manafort, took the unusual step on Wednesday of suing the special counsel and asking a federal court to narrow his authority.

I aint no bottom-feeder

but I suspect he can make a good case for that.

After two excerpts from a forthcoming book revealed Steve Bannon criticizing President Donald Trump and his campaign, the President released a statement Wednesday afternoon tearing into Bannon.

Trump said that Bannon “lost his mind” after he was “fired” from his White House job, and the President declared that Bannon “had very little to to” with Trump’s victory.

...In a lengthy statement, Trump unleashed on Bannon. He claimed that Bannon did little to help secure Trump’s presidential victory and accused Bannon of only working to promote himself.

“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,” Trump said in the statement.

The President then blamed Bannon for Roy Moore’s loss in the Alabama Senate race and generally insulted Bannon’s political abilities.

“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,” Trump said in the statement.

“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,” Trump continued. “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.”

Doubtful, it would set up a bad precedent; inhibiting future investigations for all time until such time as it would be reversed.

I basically repeated what blatham said.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Wednesday that the widening rift between President Donald Trump and his former chief strategist Steve Bannon would not change the level of support Trump received from his base of supporters.