Even as the White House reels from revelations from Michael Wolff's explosive bestseller Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner are reportedly "ecstatic" that Steve Bannon is falling into disgrace.
Vanity Fair's Emily Jane Fox wrote that the Trump-Kushners are relishing Bannon's rapid slide into pariah status as his funders desert him and the board at Breitbart.com struggles to decide whether he should be allowed to remain as the company's CEO.
Wolff's book, Fox wrote, could have kicked off the mother of all firestorms in the West Wing, but the president's daughter and son-in-law are reportedly sanguine after months on end of doing battle with Bannon and his Breitbart News audience.
"(A)ccording to people familiar with their thinking, the revelations about Bannon validated Kushner and Ivanka, who had, for months, seen Trump’s former adviser as enemy No.1 -- someone who constantly undermined them and leaked negative information about them to the press. Now, the duo seemed to feel that Bannon had exposed his duplicitous nature to their president and their former colleagues," Vanity Fair said.
Breitbart News has publicly marched to war against Kushner, coining him the figurehead of the "globalist" wing of the White House. White supremacists use the term "globalist" as a euphemism for "Jewish" a the group targeted by Bannon includes former Goldman Sachs banker Gary Cohn who, like Kushner, is Jewish.
Fox said that Ms. Trump and Mr. Kushner's "seemingly preternatural ability to compartmentalize" has thickened their skins against the barbs aimed at them in Wolff's book. They are reportedly happy that Bannon is being recognized as a duplicitous loose cannon.
“Only they could be able to think about it that way,” a source close to the couple told Fox.
Observers have described the Trump and Kushner families as "clannish" and observed that they close ranks and lean more heavily on each other during times of crisis. Astute foreign leaders spent the early part of Pres. Trump's term pursuing contacts with Kushner over Secretary of State Rex Tillerson because they knew that Kushner was closer to the president.
The coming months could be difficult for the Trump-Kushners. Special counsel Robert Mueller is reportedly looking closely at Kushner's and 's finances and some have suggested that he will likely face criminal charges.
