MAGA mastermind leaps to Natalie Harp's defense amid West Wing infighting: NBC

Steve Bannon is going to the mat for Natalie Harp, and taking a swipe at President Donald Trump’s chief of staff in the process.Bannon, a former White House chief strategist and host of the “War Room” podcast, told NBC News that Harp, one of Trump’s closest aides, is “hated by certain high-level elements on the White House staff,” and he said the same of Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte.“Otherwise these relentless, vicious, anonymous personal attacks [on them] would not continue unabated in the ‘legacy media,’” Bannon said. “It is long past time for Susie Wiles to step in and order it stopped — and stopped now.”The comments appeared in a deep-diver NBC report on Pulte, who Trump advisers griped pitches the president “the weirdest ideas,” often on foam poster boards. A Republican congressional aide called Pulte “low-hanging fruit” for Democrats if they win Congress and predicted the GOP...