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Trumps former top dog increasingly feels like he has to take matters into his own hands.
LACHLAN MARKAY
ASAWIN SUEBSAENG
10.30.17 5:11 PM ET
Steve Bannon spoke on the phone with his old boss, Donald Trump, on Monday and offered a message: get yourself some new lawyers.
The former White House chief strategist has grown increasingly concerned that the presidents legal team is falling down on the job, proving too accommodating to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and leaving Trump vulnerable as former campaign aides are handed indictments.
In terms of Steves thinking of how the president is handling this, yeah, he thinks the legal team was not prepared for what happened todaytheyre not serving the president well, a source close to Bannon said.
Added another confidant: Bannon believes Ty Cobb and John Dowd, the top two attorneys on the presidents legal team, are asleep at the wheel.
Bannon talked to Trump after those indictments were issued on Monday to express these concerns directly. Two sources, one working inside and one outside the White House, with knowledge of the conversation told The Daily Beast that Bannon advised Trump not to demote Dowd and Cobb, but to bring in new lawyers to work over them, in the hopes that fresh blood would bring an order and "ruthlessness" to Trump's legal team that Bannon sees as desperately incompetent.
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C_U_L8R
(44,889 posts)One thing becomes increasingly evident... Trump expresses absolutely zero interest in getting to the bottom of the corruption, the collusion, the election tampering, the tax evading, etc. Trump is acting more and more like a criminal with no regard or interest in the law.
Dulcinea
(6,504 posts)...is to see this Bannon asswipe in prison, forever, with no hope of parole or pardon. He is a cancer on this nation.
There has to be SOMETHING they can convict him of.