The longtime ally of Donald J. Trump faces state charges of bilking donors who gave money to build a border wall. His delay tactics mimic those of his patron.

Bannon is ramping up public attacks on billionaire Elon Musk amid an intensifying debate on the right about Musk’s influence in the incoming administration. In an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera this past week,

After a spat over the future of H-1B visas threatened a full-blown schism in Trumpworld, MAGA elder and longtime Trump adviser Steve Bannon has publicly declared war against Elon Musk, vowing to run the billionaire out of President-elect Donald Trump ’s influence circle before Trump becomes president.

President-elect’s victory heralds the start of a ‘political tide that is going to sweep across the Western world’

Cracks in the MAGA stronghold may be forming just days ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday, Jan. 20, as political strategist Steve Bannon recently lashed out at out at Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk. Trump recently tapped Musk to lead the newly-formed Department of Government Efficiency alongside Vivek Ramaswamy.

Donald Trump’s former White House chief strategist branded the tech tycoon as a ‘truly evil person’ and said stopping him before Janaury 20 has become ‘a personal issue’

In recent weeks, Trump’s coalition has split in a public debate largely taking place online about the tech industry’s hiring of foreign workers. Hard-right members of Trump’s movement have accused Musk and others in Trump’s new flank of tech-world supporters of pushing policies at odds with Trump’s “America First” vision.

The coalition is achingly close to achieving a long-held conservative dream — of fashioning a high-low alliance powerful enough to supplant the liberal establishment and remake America. It is a project that might well collapse if one side or the other gets too much of what it wants, and ends up driving the other away.

Deputy national security adviser Jon Finer; Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif.; Steve Bannon, former strategist for President-elect Donald Trump; Jonathan Dekel-Chen and Gillian Kaye,

Instead, this issue is pitting self-described populist anti-immigration MAGA hard-liners like Steve Bannon against Trump advisers such as Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy and Sriram Krishnan - all successful businesspeople, and all strong supporters of skilled immigration and a country open to talent.

Prime Minister Al Thani praised incoming President-elect Donald Trump and Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff , for helping achieve the deal, "He fought for this deal."