Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump vied for influence but knew the president “was often most influenced by the last person he spoke to” Carlos Barria/ReutersBy October Steve Bannon, the White House chief strategist, was telling people that he thought there was a 33.3 per cent chance that the Mueller investigation [into Russian collusion] would lead to the impeachment of the president, a 33.3 per cent chance that Trump would resign, perhaps in the wake of a threat by the cabinet to act on the 25th Amendment [by which the cabinet can remove the president in the event of his incapacitation], and a 33.3 per cent chance that he would limp to the end of his term. In any event, there would certainly not be a second term, or even an attempt at one. “He’s not going to make it,” said Bannon at the Breitbart Embassy [his news site’s office].…

Source: The Times January 05, 2018 00:02 UTC