Bannon seems worried about what Mueller will find on Trump

Former White House Chief Strategist Stephen Bannon, who left that job in August -- gave a television interview with Charlie Rose that was revealing.  Bannon sees himself as "going to war" for President Trump's agenda (aka Bannon's agenda) -- but now from the outside.

He plans to go after Republicans who did not support Trump;  and the litmus test, as he says, will be  whether or not they supported candidate Trump when the Billy Bush tape came out  -- you know, the shocking audio recording of Trump's "locker room" talk about how he could just grab women "by the p--sy, because when you're a star, they let you do it."  

Wow -- that's a shockingly low bar by which to judge a man's qualifications for the presidency.  But then Bannon, though a surprisingly well read and educated man in some areas, is not known as a paragon of moral principles, even in the low-bar world of politics.

Here's the "reveal" I alluded to in the headline.  Bannon says that Trump's firing of James Comey was the biggest mistake in modern politicsl history. . . .  I don't think there's any doubt that if James Comey had not been fired, we would not have a special counsel. . . .  We would not have the Mueller investigation in the breadth that clearly Mr. Mueller is going."

So, I read this to mean that (1) he thought that Comey's investigative scope was more limited than Mueller has been given, or (2) Trump could have intimidated Comey into not going  . . .  somewhere Trump doesn't want exposed.

Bannon also seems to imply that he knows what Mueller will find and that it will be highly damaging to Trump's presidency, if not to him personally.

This rules out, in my thinking, the obstruction of justice charge, since that did not come up until Comey was fired.  I'm guessing what Bannon has in mind must be either (1) the Russian collusion or (2) business/financial crimes.

It's interesting to speculate what Bannon will do if he himself is called to testify by Mueller.   He obviously knows a lot of damaging information.  Would he betray his boss/puppet?   Take the 5th?   Would Trump pardon him?

Ralph