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A GOP strategist on Sunday flagged what he says is an "underappreciated fracture" among MAGA Republicans.
Brendan Buck, a former key adviser to ex-House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), appeared on MSNBC over the weekend, and was asked about a recent "contentious cabinet meeting" involving Donald Trump appointee and richest man in the world Elon Musk.
The host asked Buck, "Can all sides coexist?"
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Buck replied that the dispute between Musk and Steve Bannon is "an underappreciated fracture in the current GOP."
"Look, Steve Bannon has been a foot soldier for Donald Trump. He went to jail for Donald Trump for a really long time. And I think he is understandably, deeply skeptical of Elon Musk, who, you know, was not even really a close ally of Donald Trump the first time around and sort of came out of nowhere and has really stolen the spotlight," Buck said. "Let's remember, Steve Bannon was a close advisor in the White House the first time around and I think he has real questions about what Elon Musk is up to."
Buck added, "We know that that Trumpism is sort of anti-immigrant nationalist and it's not clear that Elon Musk shares any of those views."
"Now, Donald trump needs both of those people. I think he likes what Elon Musk is doing," he said. "But if Steve Bannon keeps railing against him, I think that there's a real fracture that could happen here because Steve Bannon has been through this. He has the real, you know, credibility with the MAGA movement. So unless these two get on the same page, I expect trump's going to have to keep intervening."
‘Literally no kindness’: Trump family member laughs when asked about President’s nice acts

A member of Donald Trump's family laughed and struggled Sunday to think of an example when asked about a time the President was nice to a woman in the family.
Mary Trump, the President's niece and a trained psychologist, did a live Q&A over the weekend in which she was asked various questions from viewers.
One individual asked Mary Trump, "Can you remember a time when he was nice to any woman in your family? His mother, cousins, aunts, etc."
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After laughing at the question, Mary Trump says Donald Trump and another family member, his sister Maryanne Trump Barry, both struggled with empathy in part thanks to influences from their father.
"Not really," she answered. "Not in a deep, genuine way."
She went on to say that, while she has no desire to create compassion for him, "Both of them, at one point, did have impulses to be kind, empathetic people, but it was so deformed by my grandfather's abuse, that they just couldn't do it."
"She tried harder and managed on occasion," Mary Trump added. "For Donald, it just completely... it was so weak. That impulse was so weak, and there were so many people including my grandfather fueling the opposite impulses."
She concluded her answer by saying, "It just couldn't last. There's literally no kindness or empathy left in this person at all."