Did Trump Promote Steve Bannon to National Security Council Without Even Knowing It?

Riggs 2/7/2017 4:28 PM

A week after being sworn in, Trump promoted super controversial advisor Steven Bannon to the National Security Council. The move was a weird and alarming one, as it effectively demoted the Joint Chiefs of Staff and replaced him with Bannon. Wild and unprecedented. Now this report claims Trump signed the executive order that did it without even knowing it did it.

Many have said for weeks that Bannon is the real man in charge at the White House, the man really running the show. So much so in fact that Trump addressed it on twitter.

Not a great sign when you have to tell twitter that you call your own shots. That’s like when someone tells you over and over again how honest they are. Never trust that person.

Now look, we all sign things without reading what we’re signing. I’ve probably given my signature/checked that little I AGREE box on 200 Terms & Agreements in my day, never read a fucking word. Not one. I have no idea what I’ve agreed to and I don’t really care. The old Human CentiPad effect.

For you and me it doesn’t really matter. Just get these words that some legal nerd wrote out of my face immediately so I can play with my new gadget.

But for the President? Yeah, you should read that. Or at least if you’re not going to read it, have someone other than the guy whose job it’s about read it and tell you what it’s about. Thinking maybe your legal counsel or, I don’t know, a handful of aids/advisors so someone could be like “yo this basically makes Bannon the Commander In Chief.”

Just a thought. Again, I’m not the President and I’ve signed hundreds of things without reading a single word. I’m just a smut newsyish blogger, but I sure wouldn’t sign something Intern Robbie handed me without reading it.

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