The sheer utter desperation that’s driven Donald Trump back into the arms of Steve Bannon

| 10:20 am EDT April 12, 2018
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The desperation of Donald Trump is more apparent than ever. Following the recent FBI raid against Michael Cohen, Trump’s longtime personal attorney, Trump blew off steam the only way he knows how: rage tweeting nonsense while eating and watching television. While it was originally reported that the raid was in order to obtain further evidence of possible campaign finance violations through hush money payments to silence porn star Stormy Daniels from discussing their affair, it has since come out that the FBI was also after evince of any discussions surrounding the Access Hollywood tape where Trump admitted to sexually assaulting women.

As Palmer Report has reported, WikiLeaks released the first set of stolen DNC emails less than an hour after the Access Hollywood tape first aired. If there is evidence that Trump was involved in ordering WikiLeaks to make this initial document dump, that would certainly show collusion between Trump and the website that intelligence officials have called a direct propaganda arm of the Kremlin. That would certainly refute any denials of the Trump-Russia conspiracy against America.

If Trump knows something that could damage him was discovered through the raid, it would explain his newly increased desperation to end the investigation led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. The Washington Post is reporting that Trump’s former aide Steve Bannon has met with Trump and White House aides to pitch ideas on the best way to end or cripple Mueller’s investigation.

Steve Bannon’s plan to save Donald Trump seems to vary from simply committing more impeachable obstruction of justice by firing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, to the completely insane move of retroactively applying executive privilege to anyone who has already testified to Mueller or his grand jury. While the former option would create a constitutional crisis, the latter is not even legally possible. It is clear that Trump is having difficulty finding new legal representatives to replace the attorneys that have quit, and the fact he has turned to Bannon (not a lawyer) shows how desperate he truly is to save himself.