This is a year and a half old. What brought it to post? Has something consequential happened lately, related to the old rift?
There seems to be a glitch in FR's code. 3 or 4 articles I've clicked in the sidebar recently have been a year or three old.
From earlier today..
Mike Pompeo talked Senate run with Sloppy Steve
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3771636/posts
The source briefed by people close to Pompeo said one of them was uneasy about Pompeo speaking with the outcast former Breitbart News chairman, who sought to forge links with various European nationalists after being scorned by Trump.
What is interesting is Trump recently tweeted a link to a Bannon story and complimented him, as if there was no rift at all.
Some believe there has been some sort of complicated espionage activity, with the left on one side trying to frame Trump for colluding with the Russians using espionage techniques, and Trump and company trying to use the legal machinery with intelligence techniques to rebuff the assault and then counter with a legal case for treason for subverting our elections using our intelligence apparatus.
Maybe I am too conspiratorial, but this old article could be reminding people Bannon ostensibly told Mueller how easy it would be to crack Don Jr, and we now know that was totally false.
I wonder if Bannon was doing that on Trump’s orders to put Mueller on a wild goose chase, and this popping up wasn’t an accident, but rather was designed to reveal to some of the narrative-makers here that was all a tactical misdirection done for Trump, and not a mistake by Bannon. Truth is Trump never really buried Bannon.
The timing is curious, given Trump just tweeted out that tweet that was so positive for Bannon. Maybe Bannon is coming back.