How Jared Kushner may have scored a major victory...

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Steve Bannon’s run as the White House’s chief strategist ended Friday, delivering a major victory to his growing list of opponents within President Donald Trump’s administration, including son-in-law Jared Kushner.

The differences between the two, which has led to months of reports of a simmering feud, was laid bare over the past week. Bannon was said to have been rejoicing at President Donald Trump’s press conference Tuesday in which he blamed “both sides” for the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, during a white nationalist rally. Kushner is an Orthodox Jew.

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During one of their heated conversations, Bannon told Kushner, according to an April New York Times report: “Here’s the reason there’s no middle ground: You’re a Democrat.”

Bannon and Kushner were locked in a perennial battle for the ear of Trump, fighting to win the battle of influence over matters such as whether to pull the United States out of the Paris climate agreement.

It is exactly that kind of squabbling that General John Kelly has reportedly been trying to eradicate since he became the president’s chief of staff late last month. Kelly was keen to gain control of the flow of information to the president and diminish the aides and family members vying for his attention. Bannon’s removal makes that task easier.

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