Of course, as media reports have speculated for months now, the real targets of Bannon’s war are the “globalists” in the White House which, at least in Bannon’s mind, include Ivanka, Jared, Gary Cohn and National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster, among others.<\/p>\n
Bannon\u2019s main targets are the West Wing\u2019s coterie of New York Democrat \u201cglobalists\u201d\u2014Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and former Goldman Sachs president Gary Cohn\u2014as well as the \u201chawks,\u201d comprised of National Security Adviser H.R McMaster and his deputy, Dina Powell. \u201cHe wants to beat their ideas into submission,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow told me. \u201cSteve has a lot of things up his sleeve.\u201d<\/p>\nThe chaotic, war-torn West Wing of the past six months will be prologue, but the coming struggles will be as personal as they are ideological, waged not with leaks but with slashing Breitbart banners. On Sunday, Breitbart took renewed aim at McMaster, with a headline claiming he advocated \u201cQuran Kissing.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
But the biggest target of all is squarely on the back of Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law who Bannon affectionately describes as a “dope” with “highly questionable political instincts.”<\/p>\n
But most of all, there\u2019s a deep animosity between Bannon and Kushner, amplified by a lack of respect.<\/strong>\u00a0Bannon finds Kushner\u2019s political instincts highly questionable.\u00a0\u201cHe said Jared is a dope,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0one Bannon ally recalled.<\/p>\nThe two clashed fiercely on personnel decisions and policy debates, both domestic and international, many of which Bannon lost.<\/p>\n
But Bannon, who was the only West Wing advisor to publicly support the president\u2019s response to the violence in Charlottesville, is especially galled at being scapegoated as an anti-Semite in its wake. \u201cIt\u2019s one of the attacks he takes most personally because it\u2019s not true,\u201d a Breitbart staffer told me. Bannon\u2019s allies lay out a more complicated backstory. Bannon, they say, lobbied Trump aggressively to move America\u2019s embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, but was blocked by Kushner. And, according to three Bannon allies, Bannon pushed a tougher line against the Palestinians than Kushner did. In May, when Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visited the White House, Bannon stayed home. \u201cI\u2019m not going to breathe the same air as that terrorist,\u201d Bannon texted a friend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Meanwhile, the next phase of Bannon’s revenge has already started with last night’s headline story:<\/p>\n
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