Bannon turned to what was perhaps the fondest memory of their political lives—when Trump had won the presidency on November 9. Victory was as sweet as it got. “Is there any doubt in your mind on the 9th, when it was called, that it was the hand?” Bannon asked, dipping into a shared religious belief system. “That divine providence that worked through Trump to win this?” “No,” Sessions said. “You mean that?” Sessions said he did. “It was the hand of God, right? You and I were there. We know there’s no other way it could’ve happened than the hand of God.” “Yes.”
