Breitbart Article Claims White House ‘Coup’ Underway, Trump ‘Under House Arrest’

Personally, I kind of doubt it, though if they really did take Trump's phone and he can't tweet, I'd consider that a big plus. BIGLY! Make up your own mind about all this though after you’ve read the article. Audio also at the link alongside the article.

Sooooo, tabloid crapola, or is there something to this?
 
http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2017/08/30/mike-cernovich-ive-heard-that-trump-is-on-house-arrest-in-the-white-house/
 

Breitbart wrote:

Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow spoke to journalist Mike Cernovich on Breitbart News Daily this morning discussing the Trump presidency, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s influence, and the possibility of President Trump being held under “house arrest.”
 
“Exactly, so I’d heard from people that Trump is on house arrest,” replied Mike Cernovich, “I thought ‘oh c’mon, the President of the United States, that’s the weirdest thing I’ve ever heard’, but I kept digging into it and I kept hearing the same thing over and over again and then, of course, John Bolton wrote his column for National Review and he’s begging people to retweet it, he said ‘this is the only way the President is gonna see it,’ and I’ll say Alex, I don’t really understand, how can Trump not see who he wants to see? This is something I don’t really fully comprehend within the White House. I have talked to a lot of people, it’s a very weird situation.”

Marlow agreed, “it is a very weird situation, and this is something that I’m afraid is systemic of something that’s happening inside, people that listen to the show know that I’m not a huge ‘Javanka’ fan,” referencing Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, “and I’m just seeing the numbers here Mike and the people inside the White House, you’ve got Kushner, you’ve got Ivanka Trump, Gary Cohn, Dinah Powell, H.R. McMaster, who I know you were really the first person to call him out as a big threat to the MAGA agenda. And it’s just overwhelming and now with no Bannon and with no Gorka, just where is the President getting information that can tie him, connect him to his own base?”

“I heard [John] Kelly had taken his [Trump’s] phone, so he wouldn’t be getting messages on his phone which again I thought was a weird story when people were telling me that I said, ‘come on, get out of here you can’t take the President’s phone this is incomprehensible’ but again that Bolton thing confirmed it and I’m not a big John Bolton fan personally, I don’t have anything against him but I found it amazing that he was, again, begging for retweets saying ‘the only way the President is gonna see my article is maybe if it goes viral,’ because it has to get past General Kelly, that shows there is some kind of coup going on there.”

“Coup is a strong word,” said Marlow, “but it’s very hard to argue against it at this point.”
 
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To use Joseph Farrell's phrase, I think this is a lot of "high octane speculation." If it happens to turn out to be true (I doubt it), then Breitbart has some very good reporters as they are the only ones talking about it.

According to UK Daily Mail he was tweeting yesterday 01 Sept. so he still has his phone. That aside the “house arrest” spoken of by Breitbart might just have legs . . . maybe . . . that is if you trust the NYT report. NYT isn’t even good for wrapping fish guts so take with a grain of salt anything spewing forth from that source. “House arrest” seems an extreme view to me. Muzzled would be more appropriate term if I read and understand this correctly. No matter how one slices and dices this, Mr. Trump is being muzzled and marginalized by General Kelly.
 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4846596/Will-Trump-s-new-Chief-Staff-leave.html
 
I hi-lighted the juicy bits below.

Daily Mail wrote:

According to The New York Times, Kelly has been both shocked and appalled by his new boss's style of management and claims to have never been spoken to so badly in his entire 35 year career.
 
Aides have begun guessing not if he will leave but when, with some saying it could be as soon as next month.
 
According to those who spoke anonymously, Kelly was particularly outraged by an outburst by the president after a rally in Arizona last month.
 
Since being sworn in on July 31, he has implemented a strict new order.
 
Ivanka Trump now checks in with him first before going to see her father to discuss policy issues and Kelly has restricted what the president reads.
 
According to the Times, he has stopped Trump's daily print-out of articles by far-right media outlets Breitbart news and The Daily Caller.

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The Chief of Staff does usually decide what makes it to the desk of the POTUS, so I wouldn't be surprised if the statements in bold are true. 

However, the 1st sentence of the article made me chuckle. The NYT does realize Kelly comes from the military, right? Do they really expect us to believe that he is hearing anything from the President that he hasn't heard from his superiors while coming up the chain??? I would bet there is nothing he hasn't heard, in tone or content, before.

Also, the good that might come out of this is Kelly seems to have cooled down the President's Twitter usage and statements, which could be a very good thing. He has been known to make many statements that did nothing but hurt himself and his agenda.