Gall the President’s Men

Steve Bannon was already controversial as a strategic advisor. And now with his role on the National Security Council, the former Breitbart editor gets to help decide war and peace.

+ From the excellent Reveal podcast: Steve Bannon had a big weekend in the White House. Get to know him.

+ “Kushner was f*cking furious … I’d never once heard him say he was angry throughout the entire campaign. But he was furious.” From Vanity Fair: Can Jared and Ivanka outrun Donald Trump’s scandals?

+ “Most Americans intuit that their president and his relatives have become vastly wealthier over the past four years. But rumors of graft are easy to dismiss. Because Trump has never released his tax returns, no one really knows.” Former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum imagines the near future in The Atlantic: How to Build an Autocracy.