Steve Bannon, manages to blame Hillary Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Michael Wolff and Paul Manafort in his late, sloppy regret for implicating Donald Trump and Donald Trump, Jr. as traitors.
In a statement to Axios on Sunday, Bannon heaped praise on Trump and his agenda, and called Don Jr. a “patriot and a good man.“
“My comments about the meeting with Russian nationals came from my life experiences as a Naval officer stationed aboard a destroyer whose main mission was to hunt Soviet submarines to my time at the Pentagon during the Reagan years when our focus was the defeat of ‘the evil empire’ and to making films about Reagan’s war against the Soviets and Hillary Clinton’s involvement in selling uranium to them,” Bannon said in the statement.
Bannon added that his comments to Wolff were “aimed at Paul Manafort,” the former Trump campaign manager who has been charged as part of an investigation into possible collusion between the Russian government and members of Trump’s team. Manafort was also at the 2016 Trump Tower meeting.
Manafort, Bannon said, “should have known how the Russians operate. He should have known they are duplicitous, cunning and not our friends. To reiterate, those comments (about the meeting with the Russians) were not aimed at Don Jr.”
In the statement, Bannon again denied that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia and expressed “regret that my delay in responding to the inaccurate reporting regarding Don Jr has diverted attention from the president’s historical accomplishments in the first year of his presidency.”
It remains to be seen if the President will accept Bannon’s apology, but can Steve can hold out hope that Trump will pivot to being Presidential.
Non-Breaking: Steve Bannon says that he is not a drinker.
That stopped in 1998. He has reportedly switched to green juices, so he can be fit and trim for the battles to come, like he was back in the day at Virginia Tech, when he was featured in Glamour Magazine.
EXCLUSIVE: 'I didn't have a drinking problem - but I didn't have a drinking solution.'
His new meal plan banished bags of Doritos to the trash can, replacing the cheesy powdered chips with 'thick green' and 'vinegary' juices.The strict diet might help Bannon get into the same shape he was in when he was featured in Glamour magazine for its August 1975 edition.
Bannon, the student body president, was being profiled along with other Virginia Tech students who were trying to make selling pre-written term papers illegal in Virginia.
His former classmates at the time described him as being 'cool' and 'something of a ladies' man', alumni told the author.
A friend recalled: 'I remember he had very attractive young ladies around him all the time'.
Another quipped that Bannon 'is a handsome guy', adding that he looked like a 'wavy-haired Robert Redford'.