Timothy L. O'Brien, Columnist

In Trump's White House, Family Comes First

Steve Bannon has little hope of winning his fight with Jared Kushner.

April 10, 2017 at 2:41 PM UTC

Timothy L. O'Brien is senior executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion. A former editor and reporter for the New York Times, he is author of “TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald.”

1491833461_GettyImages-658583276 — Inside track. Photographer: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

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Factions inside Donald Trump’s White House have knives out for one another. Or guns.

“I love a gunfight,” is how the administration’s dark knight, Steve Bannon, apparently described a looming confrontation between his loyalists (Stephen Miller, Kellyanne Conway and the Mercer family) and Jared Kushner’s supporters (Ivanka Trump, Gary Cohn and Dina Powell).