Steve Bannon and Reince Priebus’s War for the White House — The New Yorker
Doubtless, many of America’s allies abroad will be delighted to hear that Bannon, who is widely regarded as the Dark Lord of Trumpland, has been nocked down a bit, at least on one front. But of course, there is no way to know if the Journal story is accurate, or merely the result of a mischievous leak from someone on the inside who is hostile to Bannon. As my colleague Ryan Lizza reported on Friday, there is a bitter struggle going on between Bannon and Priebus. Priebus’s allies inside the White House are widely thought to include Mike Pence, the Vice-President, and Sean Spicer, Trump’s spokesman. “In conversations I had with people close to Priebus and those close to Bannon, the two sides talk about each other as leaders of a zero-sum fight for control of the West Wing,” Lizza reported. He also quoted a source close to Priebus who, predictably enough, claimed that Priebus had virtually nothing to do with the disastrous rollout of the travel ban: that was all the fault of Bannon and his sidekick Stephen Miller.
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