Say what you will about Steve Bannon, but at least he knew firing an FBI director currently investigating your associates was a bad idea. Not so for the President of the United States, Donald Trump, or, if reports are accurate, the Son-in-Law-in-Chief Jared Kushner, who apparently championed Trump's move to fire James Comey while his department was conducting the Russia investigation.

Bannon's 60 Minutes interview touched on a number of topics—but not, crucially, issues like Bannon, Trump, and Breitbart News' ties to the shadowy billionaires the Mercers. The former White House chief strategist seemed to confirm to Charlie Rose that he'd opposed Comey's firing and that it had led directly to the installment of Robert Mueller as Justice Department special counsel. That part didn't make it on the broadcast, and made news after people discovered it in the "overtime" segment online:

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2. WATCH: Bannon says firing of Comey was the biggest mistake in modern political history. Also, he refuses to answer if Kushner was for it. pic.twitter.com/d0zcZgowd1 — Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) September 11, 2017

"The biggest mistake in modern political history," is high praise for a president who could tweet his way into a world war before breakfast. But there's no doubt the decision was catastrophically bad from Trump's point of view, as he traded out an investigation conducted under his appointees at the Justice Department—Jeff Sessions and Rod Rosenstein—for an independent probe spearheaded by a relentless, widely respected, and undeniably competent former FBI director. Time will tell if the decision proves a good one for the country.

Bannon displayed some common sense here, but his reactionary style still shone through the interview. In true Breitbart style, Bannon could not physically bring himself to confirm that the media's reporting on his position towards the Comey firing was accurate. He also kept up the charade of refusing to confirm details of conversations he had with the president while essentially confirming those details. And of course, he couldn't resist slipping another shiv into Jared Kushner, his Day One-enemy in the White House who parlayed his marriage into a job as Secretary of Everything—and outlasted Bannon in the process. This White House is a cartoon high school—except the rich jocks have ethno-nationalists to contend with.

Jack Holmes Politics Editor Jack Holmes is the Politics Editor at Esquire, where he writes daily and edits the Politics Blog with Charles P Pierce.

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