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Angry Trump removes Priebus and Bannon from Air Force One manifest ... Is it really worth it? // The Trump wiretap story is more important than you realize

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Peter Burgess

Angry Trump removes Priebus and Bannon from Air Force One manifest ... Is it really worth it?

Saturday Mar 04, 2017 · 5:01 PM EST

Is it really worth putting up with a maniac for a boss in order to be a VIP in the White House?

Is it worth putting up with the tantrums and the hissy fits?

Must be, since Reince Priebus and Steve Bannon are still there today.

Before heading off to his so-called 'winter White House' in Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday, President Donald Trump summoned some of his senior staff to the Oval Office and went 'ballistic,' senior White House sources told ABC News.

The president erupted with anger over the latest slew of news reports connecting Russia with the new administration -- specifically the abrupt decision by Attorney General Jeff Sessions to recuse himself from investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 campaign.

And apparently Trump didn’t care who saw this juvenile display.

With Marine One waiting on the South Lawn, Trump and his team engaged in an animated exchange -- captured by press pool cameras peering in through the windows from the White House South Lawn. Trump then left the office for the helicopter, taking the hands of his young grandchildren and joined by his daughter Ivanka and Kushner.

So, naturally, Trump had to continue the tantrum.

As President Trump was in the air aboard Marine One headed for Air Force One on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews, a last-minute phone call was made from the West Wing to the team on board the president’s plane with a directive to remove Priebus and Bannon from the manifest, sources said. They would not be coming to the Sunshine State.

So … what happens if some huge crisis develops somewhere in the world while Trump is taking it easy at Mar-A-Lago and his senior staff are all back in Washington?

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The Trump wiretap story is more important than you realize

By Keith Pickering Saturday Mar 04, 2017 · 11:05 AM EST

As you now know, our Fearless Leader’s brief flirtation with “Acting Presidential” (she’s a prude) crashed and burned when he got out of bed this morning with “Tweets” (she’s more of the slutty girl he prefers).

So Trump has accused Barack Obama (personally!) of tapping his phones during the campaign:

Follow Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump I'd bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election! 6:52 AM - 4 Mar 2017 34,759 34,759 Retweets 118,626 118,626 likes

But here’s the thing: not even the President of the United States can do that. You need a court order to tap phones.

If Trump’s phone was tapped (and I’m quite sure it was, because Trump said so, and he never lies), then there must have been a court order. And that court order must have been based on a reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing. And it happened in October.

So, what reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing might have been raised in October, regarding Trump? You guessed it: Russian hacking of the election. Which in turn implies that the warrant was issued by the super-secret FISA court (well-known to almost never refuse a warrant request.)

And that means that the either the FBI, or the CIA, or the NSA, knows a lot about what was really going on.

And Trump knows they know, because this morning, he was briefed.

And hoo-boy. The Trumpster is running scared.