Steve Bannon has confused me.

Again.

In an interview with Michael Wolff quoted in Wolfe’s book “Fire and Fury” Bannon talks about the meeting with Russians in July of 2016 at Trump Tower allegedly to get dirt on Hillary Clinton and says:

“The three senior guys in the campaign thought it was a good idea to meet with a foreign government inside Trump Tower in the conference room on the 25th floor – with no lawyers. They didn’t have any lawyers. Even if you thought that this was not treasonous, or unpatriotic, or bad shit, and I happen to think it’s all of that, you should have called the FBI immediately.”

Bannon doesn’t deny the quote. He just denies that he was talking about Donald Trump Jr. when he said it.

Let’s review. “The three senior guys” in the meeting were Junior, Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner. He now says he was talking about Manafort, the campaign manager, when he said that treason stuff. Apparently in triplicate.

Don Junior, he says now, is a “patriot and a good man.” A patriot and a good man who just so happened to have arranged the meeting with agents of a foreign government to gather campaign dirt on his father’s political opponent in the midst of a presidential campaign and invited the other senior guys to sit in on the meeting, without attorneys present and without calling the FBI.

Bannon went on to say, about the same meeting, that “the chance that Don Junior did not walk these jumos up to his father’s office on the twenty-sixth floor is zero.”

Any minute now, Bannon will be telling us that he meant Manafort when he said that.

And, no doubt we will soon learn he meant Manafort when he said “they’re going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV.”

So here’s the deal. “Don Junior” is Bannon’s pet name for Manafort.

That’s the only plausible explanation. Unless you think he would be influenced at all by the fact that his criticism of Junior and Senior is the reason the Mercers pulled their financial support from Bannon’s insurrectionist cause. But that can’t possibly have anything to do with it. Bannon’s unethical unscrupulousness is too high to be swayed by gazillions of dollars from a hedge fund manager.

Isn’t it?