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Trump vs. Bannon: President Trump is now threatening lawsuits over the inflammatory interviews his former aide Steve Bannon gave to the journalist Michael Wolff. Bannon's harsh critique risks cutting him off from the base of support he shares with the president, making it hard to discern why he chose to split so dramatically from Trump. (Conor Friedersdorf posits ) But as James Fallows writes, the version of Trump that Wolff’s book portrays—an unstable and ill-prepared president—has been an open secret to political leaders.

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