Drudge Calls Steve Bannon 'Schizophrenic' Plus Trump: Steve 'Not Only Lost His Job, He Lost His Mind'

Via Billy
 

Matt Drudge, the editor and founder of the Drudge Report, zinged Steve Bannon after a new report detailed the former White House strategist’s comments calling a meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a group of Russians as “treasonous.”

“No wonder schizophrenic Steve Bannon has been walking around with a small army of bodyguards,” Drudge tweeted Wednesday.

Bannon spoke out against the meeting between Trump’s son, son-in-law and White House adviser Jared Kushner, former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya in a soon-to-be-released book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” which was obtained by the Guardian.

“The 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 floor – with no lawyers. They didn’t have any lawyers,” Bannon told author Michael Wolff. “Even if you thought that this was not treasonous, or unpatriotic, or bad shit, and I happen to think it’s all of that, you should have called the FBI immediately.”

President Trump slammed his former chief strategist just hours after excerpts of a forthcoming book about the presidency revealed Steve Bannon had made disparaging comments about Trump’s family and personal habits.

“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 a statement on Wednesday. “Steve was a staffer who worked for me after I had already won the nomination by defeating seventeen candidates, often described as the most talented field ever assembled in the Republican party.”

Trump said Bannon “is learning that winning isn’t as easy as I make it look,” referring to Bannon’s failed efforts to promote Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore, whose campaign imploded late last year amid allegations of sexual misconduct involving teenagers.

“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 said. “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.”

The book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” by Michael Wolff, quickly generated buzz on Wednesday due to Bannon’s comments about Trump’s family, including his claim that Donald Trump Jr.’s decision to meet with Russians during the campaign was “treasonous.”