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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Sun Mar 26, 2017, 05:38 PM Mar 2017

Assuming Trump gets impeached / quits. WOULD Pence keep Bannon?

Just a thought. Would he keep Bannon, or any player? Do we think Pence had any role in selecting them? Would jettisoning them be a way to distance himself from Trump?

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Assuming Trump gets impeached / quits. WOULD Pence keep Bannon? (Original Post) Miles Archer Mar 2017 OP
snort snort samnsara Mar 2017 #1
I suspect we'd be looking at Chief of Staff Rick Santorum. Science advisor Ken Ham. Etc. Warren DeMontague Mar 2017 #2
I'm getting the same chill down my spine mcar Mar 2017 #12
Talk about a frothy mess... madinmaryland Mar 2017 #13
No. Pence, Ryan, & Priebus are allies--an Establishment team! tblue37 Mar 2017 #3
They are all implicated, likely. Sculpin Beauregard Mar 2017 #4
in my wild fantasy bannon is in the same prison as 45 Takket Mar 2017 #5
Grotesque. Ilsa Mar 2017 #6
Who besides Trump is Bannon accountable to? world wide wally Mar 2017 #7
He would hire a younger more Ayn Randian Ralph Reed-type figure. salin Mar 2017 #8
Fire Bannon. Keep his liver. Hassin Bin Sober Mar 2017 #9
😂 Sculpin Beauregard Mar 2017 #10
No mcar Mar 2017 #11
If/When things get really hot - he will jump ship all on his own elfin Mar 2017 #14
You're assuming Pence would escape charges. Flynn did Panich52 Mar 2017 #15
So it would go to who? sellitman Mar 2017 #16
Repubs would claim succession making Ryan potus. Panich52 Mar 2017 #17

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
2. I suspect we'd be looking at Chief of Staff Rick Santorum. Science advisor Ken Ham. Etc.
Sun Mar 26, 2017, 05:41 PM
Mar 2017

We'd probably be trading a lot of creepy alt-right Nazis for a differently creepy batch of young earth creationist fundies.

tblue37

(65,227 posts)
3. No. Pence, Ryan, & Priebus are allies--an Establishment team!
Sun Mar 26, 2017, 05:41 PM
Mar 2017

Bannon is very much against them and their agenda.

Sculpin Beauregard

(1,046 posts)
4. They are all implicated, likely.
Sun Mar 26, 2017, 05:43 PM
Mar 2017

The whole admin should be de-installed. I don't know if that is likely to happen or not.

The weirdo billionaire Mercers propped up Breitbart and then installed Bannon in whitehouse. I have read that Breitbart is associated with Russia.

This is well and truly a huge network of malfeasance, and who knows how deep it goes.

Ilsa

(61,690 posts)
6. Grotesque.
Sun Mar 26, 2017, 05:45 PM
Mar 2017

A new character on Homeland on Showtime is a thinner version of Bannon. He dresses slightly better, but drinks all day. And he's every bit as evil, running a nasty talk show with misinformation. Now apparently he's running a hacker farm with several hundred people running bots to control the narrative online. Oh yeah, he had an FBI agent killed, too.

elfin

(6,262 posts)
14. If/When things get really hot - he will jump ship all on his own
Sun Mar 26, 2017, 06:09 PM
Mar 2017

Hop over to Breitbart Europe to destroy that. Lots of places to peddle hate and destruction.

Panich52

(5,829 posts)
15. You're assuming Pence would escape charges. Flynn did
Sun Mar 26, 2017, 06:17 PM
Mar 2017

not have to lie to Pence about contact w/ Russians, Pence was at the top of the transition team. No way he was not privy to what was going on.

Panich52

(5,829 posts)
17. Repubs would claim succession making Ryan potus.
Sun Mar 26, 2017, 06:46 PM
Mar 2017

For me, collusion, which started before Nov 8, invalidates Trump ticket. That means Hillary.

Constitutional crisis coming up... (as Putin smiles) as Repub's would be apoplectic at that possibility.

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