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The editor in chief at Breitbart, fooled into believing that an email prankster was ousted White House strategist Steve Bannon, told a fake Bannon that his publication could have Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner booted from their White House jobs by the end of the year.

In the exchange, Alex Marlow also revealed a personal smear about the private lives of Ivanka and Jared, a possible indication of how low Breitbart is willing to go to do Bannon’s “dirty work” against White House aides he deems harmful to the site’s nationalist agenda.

The exchange with Marlow was shared with CNN by the email prankster, who tweets under the name @SINON_REBORN and describes himself as a “lazy anarchist.” The prankster has pulled similar stunts in the past, notably creating a stir in the White House by fooling top officials into thinking he was a colleague.

Since his departure from the White House, Bannon has made it clear how he feels about the president’s favorite child and close West Wing assistant.

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According the New York Times, Bannon resented Ivanka’s efforts to undo some of the major policies that he and the president “agreed were important to the economic nationalist agenda.” There also were reports that Ivanka had been urging her father to fire Bannon for months, while Jared and Bannon had been feuding for control over the president’s attention and policy direction. In Breitbart terms, Ivanka and her husband Jared are “globalists,” due to their reportedly more moderate social and economic positions.

Not surprisingly, the day after Bannon rejoined Breitbart as executive chairman, the site published a series of attacks against the first daughter, New York magazine reported.

The email exchange between Marlow and the prankster suggests that the goal of these critical stories is to undermine Ivanka’s credibility and get her fired.

“Reading online about how i’ll be bringing forth my wrath on Ivanka and Jared,” fake Bannon wrote to Marlow on Sunday, according to a transcript @SINON_REBORN posted online Tuesday.

NEW PRANK!! …Steve Bannon (ME) chatting to BREITBART Editor ALEX MARLOW. As seen on CNN pic.twitter.com/tByDNsDCRl — EMAIL PRANKSTER™ (@SINON_REBORN) August 22, 2017

“I’d be doing this great nation a service if I did,” fake Bannon said.

Marlow replied, “I spooked em today. Did five stories on globalist takeover positioning you as only hope to stop it.”

In a later exchange, Marlow shared a personal smear about the private life of Ivanka and Jared. CNN said it chose not to repeat the smear because it is unfounded and unsubstantiated.

“Haha.. lovely stuff,” replied the fake Bannon account. “So do you think you’ll have them packed and shipping out before Christmas?”

“Let me see what I can do … ” Marlow wrote. “Hard to know given your description of them as evil. I don’t know what motivates them. If they are semi normal, then yes, they out by end of year.”

New York magazine said it appears that Marlow totally bought into the exchange with fake Bannon, especially after fake Bannon gave him this bit of “insight,” which sounds absurd for several reasons. Fake Bannon told him that Trump “has red wine decanted through Melania’s used pantihoes [sic].”

Marlow, apparently not remembering that Trump is a famous teetotaler, replied: “That makes more sense to me [than] you think.”

Marlow confirmed the email exchange to CNN but was unrepentant, even after being exposed for having an agenda so motivated by partisan politics, Bannon’s apparent personal grievance, or both.

“The obsession with Breitbart News is simply a result of our effectiveness,” Marlow said. “This time, an imposter deceitfully obtained and shared with CNN tongue-in-cheek emails that revealed that we feel Globalists present an existential threat to the agenda that got President Trump elected.”

Marlow added: “If people want to know our thinking, they don’t need to judge us on illicitly obtained comments that were intended to be private, they can simply read our front page.”

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However, Breitbart president and CEO Larry Solov was spooked enough that Marlow and other Breitbart editors had been hoodwinked by the prankster that he wrote a cautionary note to staffers.

“For the moment, be especially careful of emails from this address,” Solov wrote in the company’s internal Slack channel, a copy of which was obtained by CNN.

Solov added: “They are fake.”

Meanwhile, CNN said a White House spokesperson declined to comment on the Breitbart emails about Ivanka Trump and Kushner, and Bannon did not respond to a request for comment.