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Steve Bannon Says the Next Attorney General Should Be…Donald Trump, Jr.

And we come full circle.

Nepotism is already bad. It was bad when JFK made his little brother Bobby the Attorney General way back in the day (although Bobby DID turn out alright). But it’s at an all-time high under the Trump administration.

He gave positions to both his daughter and her husband, made his sons Donald Junior and Eric the executive vice presidents of the Trump Organization (so he could continue international business deals while he was president, and even financed daughter Tiffany’s many, many vacations on the public dime.

There has never been a family as corrupt as this.

Now Steve Bannon, He Of The Many Shirts™, thinks Donnie should take it one step further if he wants to cement his legacy.

He thinks, should Trump win another term, that he should appoint his eldest son to the position of Attorney General. There’s not much danger of that happening, since the process requires the “advice and consent of the United States Senate,” and, well, Democrats still exist.

It would be hard to pry even Bernie’s old butt from the floor during the filibuster for THAT appointment.

But on a recent episode of his War Room podcast, Bannon was hosting Junior’s publishing partner, Sergio Gor. He’s the co-founder of “Winning Team Publishing,” a book company founded specifically to print right-wing lies.

In other words, they made it so they could print Trump’s memoirs without those pesky fact-checkers.

“One last thing, Sergio. Make sure you tell your partner, on Morning Joe this morning, they mentioned Don Jr. as attorney general. Hey, I gotta say I think it may go to the top of my list… You don’t need a law degree, you need common sense,” Bannon told him. “Don Jr.’s got common sense. I wanna put him at the top of the list now for AG, which I would love to be there for the confirmation hearing, sir.”

Said Gor, “I love that idea, and I’ll share that with him. I’m actually flying out with him in about an hour, so that’ll be our topic of conversation.”

“Tell him we’re gonna push it hard,” Bannon replied.

This is like if you took cancer and made it airborne.

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