Trump, Bannon in open warfare after sensational book release

Tensions between President Trump and Steve Bannon, his former chief strategist, exploded into open warfare on Wednesday with the publication of excerpts from a forthcoming book about the presidency.

After reading on Wednesday in excerpts of the book that Bannon had accused Trump’s son of conducting a “treasonous” meeting with Russians, Trump said Bannon had “lost his mind” in a scathing official statement that claimed the Breitbart News chief had “spent his time at the White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was.”