Trial Balloon for a COUP?

[David Morris]

Then again, there's this take:

http://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/01/29/is-steve-bannon-trying-to-instigate-a-constitutional-crisis/

Is Steve Bannon Trying to Instigate a Constitutional Crisis?
Fast forward to the recent Muslim ban. Bannon had to know that the courts
would immediately step in to halt the deportations on multiple legal
grounds. But not only did Bannon seek that confrontation, he did so in the
most provocative way possible: it was Bannon’s idea to overrule the
Department of Homeland Security and include green card holders in the
immigration ban.

And, in fact, a Constitutional crisis has already arisen: some border
patrol have been defying court orders by detaining legal residents without
access to attorneys, in spite of direct personal pressure from United
States senators and armies of lawyers.It’s possible that this chaos is
simply a result of overzealousness and incompetence on the part of the
Administration. But Bannon is known to be a cunning a strategist who
doesn’t show his hand and doesn’t like to openly talk about his tactics.
His actions are seldom random and always deliberate.

We do know that Bannon implemented a highly controversial, high-profile
order that he knew to be illegal and particularly cruel, but of great
importance to his white nationalist base. We know that on the same day he
placed himself on the national security council, removing the joint chiefs
from the room. We know that Bannon idolizes Andrew Jackson and sees himself
as above the courts.

We don’t yet know the Trump Administration’s response to the court rulings.
But it’s worth considering the possibility that Trump’s closest adviser is
actively seeking a Constitutional crisis that tests the power of the
judiciary to stop any potential actions by the Executive Branch.

This is a very dangerous time for the country.

Update: Donald Trump’s team has removed The Judicial Branch from the White
House website. This is not a joke.


On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 8:26 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/questions-
> multiply-over-bannons-role-in-trump-administration/2017/01/
> 29/2abbf2dc-e644-11e6-b82f-687d6e6a3e7c_story.html?utm_term=.000aaaa11923
>
> *Questions multiply about Bannon’s role in administration*
> The chief political strategist was directly involved in shaping the
> controversial immigration mandate, according to those familiar with the
> process.
>
> http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/30/1626997/-
> Abbreviated-Pundit-Round-up-President-Bannon-s-executive-
> orders-spark-a-firestorm-of-resistance
>
> It's becoming clearer that Steve Bannon is making policy while Trump
> watches TV. What next, press? How to cover? Pretend business as usual? We
> are still struggling to grasp what it means to have President Bannon in the
> WH making decisions. It's not entirely incompetence. This is the
> big story. Never lose sight of him. He’s the power behind the throne
> (though there’s a struggle
> <https://twitter.com/RoguePOTUSStaff/status/825757123548160001> with
> Pence/Ryan/Preibus faction
> <https://twitter.com/RoguePOTUSStaff/status/825823650909650949>). But
> he’s in the open now.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 8:16 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This portrays the weekend events as unintended chaos:
>>
>> Government by chaos: Trump's Muslim ban is a parade of ignorance
>>
>> http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/30/1627279/-Governmen
>> t-by-chaos-Trump-s-Muslim-ban-is-a-parade-of-ignorance
>>
>> While thousands of Americans protested President Trump’s blacklist
>> against seven majority Muslim countries for a second day on Sunday, and
>> hundreds of travelers were detained for attempting to legally enter the
>> country, Trump sat down to watch *Finding Dory *with staff and family
>> members.
>>
>>
>> Why would even Donald Trump act in such haste? The man in charge made him
>> do it.
>>
>> Mr. Bannon, who believes in highly restrictive immigration policies and
>> saw barring refugees as vital to shoring up Mr. Trump’s political base, was
>> determined to make it happen. He and a small group made up of the
>> president’s closest advisers began working on the order during the
>> transition so that Mr. Trump could sign it soon after taking office.sign
>> it soon after taking office.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 7:48 AM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Some compelling reasoning here that chilled me, to be honest.
>>>
>>> https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/trial-balloon-for-a-coup-e
>>> 024990891d5#.oqyh3afjv
>>>
>>> The idea is not so far fetched as it seems at first blush.
>>>
>>> Jerky
>>> -
>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>>
>>
>>
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