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As Jared Kushner takes on ever more jobs, Steve Bannon has just lost one:

President Donald Trump has removed Steve Bannon, his chief strategist, from the National Security Council, according to a filing in the federal registry. A top White House official told NBC News that Bannon was put on the NSC’s Principals’ Committee only as a check against then-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. Now that Flynn is gone, Bannon is no longer needed in that role, the official said.

O…kay. So Trump appointed a guy as National Security Advisor who was so volatile and incompetent that he needed a minder? That’s not a very reassuring clarification.

It’s also not true, but nobody cares. It’s impossible to prove that it’s not true, so there’s nothing we can do except shrug and accept it. Anything that gets Bannon off the NSC is fine with the rest of the world, I imagine, so we’ll all just give it a pass.