The book is called “Devil’s Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency,” and it’s getting quite the big media push these days.
I wasn’t planning to buy it, but I heard author Joshua Green interviewed on Radio Times yesterday afternoon, and it did sound pretty interesting.
But then, all of a sudden, it didn’t.
The part where I so suddenly lost interest was when Green started talking about Peter Schweizer’s “Clinton Cash,” which was Bannon’s idea. He thought if he could push a book attacking the Clinton’s on a “factual” basis, it would get picked up by the mainstream media. He said how well that part of the plan worked, but they couldn’t figure out why it didn’t have any real impact.
Now, if I’m a writer, and I’m asking that question, I’m going to go do some research.
You see, the reason the “factual” book didn’t take off was because…. it was thoroughly debunked and if anything, was the opposite of factual! That was the problem.
I wrote about the Clinton Cash at Crooks & Liars, and you can read refresh your memory here, here, here, here, here and here.
Green is a Bloomberg reporter, and spent six years of his life on this book. Most of what I heard him say sounded intriguing. But it’s hard to take a book seriously when the author misses something so important, so I think I’ll just borrow it from the library.
Not only that Green dismisses Clinton’s campaign as “soulless” which says a lot more about him than it does her.
I get what the Republican White Nationalists in the White House are up to but……………
Very recently the billionaire oligarchs (George Soros, Robert Zimmerman, Steve Gambrel, Dennis Mehiel, John Paulson, etc.) who supported the Clinton machine for the past 30 years all got together.
They decided to back Senator Kamala Harris as their 2020 presidential candidate.
The Left is skeptical.
If Senator Harris is just one more neo-liberal, interventionist instead of a Henry Wallace Progressive then forgetaboutit.
Everybody knows by now what happens when the Left either stays home on election day or decides to vote for Jill Stein or Donald Trump to protest the Democratic Party’s lack of vision.
The oligarch’s dream of a neo-liberal “New World Order” is kaput.
Thanks for this. I read something, somewhere, about the book. It mentioned the Clinton Cash book as being factual and did not challenge that description of it. It was even described as the product of a Bannon strategy to build a story from facts so it could be marketed to the MSM, especially the NYT. Nobody mentioned that the facts were fake.
It’s hard to say which is more stupefying, that Bannon would knowingly compile an entire book of lies or that a Bloomberg reporter would think that the falsity of the facts in the book was not important enough to include in his story.
Am I the only one that has noticed that one sure sign of a crook is how eager they are to snare others in complicity? The review I read said that Bannon considered the NYT the holy grail in his objective to trick a paper into discrediting itself by dignifying his book with uncritical attention.