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NRaleighLiberal

(60,014 posts)
Tue Oct 3, 2017, 09:23 AM Oct 2017

Sick. TPM - "Bannon: It'd Be The End Of Everything If Trump Turned Left On Gun Control"

(Well, Bannon - it is the end of everything for the 59 who lost their lives)

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/bannon-itd-be-end-everything-trump-turned-left-gun-control

By NICOLE LAFOND Published OCTOBER 3, 2017 8:22 AM

While the attack in Las Vegas this weekend has been called the worst mass shooting in modern history, allies of President Donald Trump told Axios they don’t think the President will pivot left on the gun control debate like he did on the debt ceiling.

Axios spoke with more than 20 sources inside and outside the White House since the shooting, including former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, who said the reaction from Trump’s base would be “actually worse” if he made a deal with Democrats on gun control than if he had supported comprehensive immigration reform.

“Impossible: will be the end of everything,” Bannon told Axios in a text message.

Longtime former Trump adviser Roger Stone made similar comments.

“Base would go insane and he knows it,” he said.

Other allies told Axios that the support of the National Riffle Association (NRA) is too important to the President for him to take any significant stance on gun control.

One source said Trump doesn’t feel like he has to be loyal to traditional outside Republican groups because they “didn’t lift a finger to help him in the election,” but the NRA is “very much the exception.”

snip -more to read at the link above.



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Sick. TPM - "Bannon: It'd Be The End Of Everything If Trump Turned Left On Gun Control" (Original Post) NRaleighLiberal Oct 2017 OP
If you care more about your precious assault rifles than you do about all the dead in Vegas Initech Oct 2017 #1
That would be "sweet" HAB911 Oct 2017 #2
If ever there wasn't a man of the people, its fat rich drunk Steve Bannon Johonny Oct 2017 #3

Initech

(100,068 posts)
1. If you care more about your precious assault rifles than you do about all the dead in Vegas
Tue Oct 3, 2017, 09:28 AM
Oct 2017

You are a part of the problem.

Johonny

(20,841 posts)
3. If ever there wasn't a man of the people, its fat rich drunk Steve Bannon
Tue Oct 3, 2017, 09:53 AM
Oct 2017

so why does the average Joe six pack flock to his stale me first message?

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