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Trump Takes Pages From Steve Bannon's Original Playbook


Joshua Green, senior national correspondent for Bloomberg Businessweek and the author of Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency (Penguin Press, 2017), explores how Steve Bannon helped propel Donald Trump to the presidency and continues to do so now. Green says that Bannon is "a student of propaganda filmmakers and he viscerally understands the media." He says, this is how Bannon sees it: "When things are going bad for you, the way you fight back against that is to start a fight that muddies the water."

President Trump said this morning that transgender people won't be allowed or accepted in the military. And Green explains that this is just how Bannon and Trump are muddying the water, with a big distraction. And so the move to ban transgender people from the military is an attempt to turn the focus away from the potential firing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions. 

Also, Green and listeners weigh in on their reactions to Sen. John McCain's speech on the Senate floor on Jun. 25th after he cast his vote in favor the the latest iteration of the health care bill. 

EVENT: On July 26th, at 7:00PM Joshua Green will do a reading at Barnes and Noble, located at 2289 Broadway. More information is here. 


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