Bannon Battles It Out in Border Wall Case — With His Own Lawyers

There’s plenty of fight left in Steve Bannon. He’s even saved some for his attorneys.

Citing “irreconcilable differences,” they asked a judge on Thursday for permission to withdraw from his defense against charges he cheated contributors to a privately funded US-Mexico border wall out of more than $15 million.

“There has been a breakdown in direct communications between Mr. Bannon and his attorneys,” his lawyer David Schoen told New York State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan at a hearing in Manhattan. Schoen told the judge that Bannon “is refusing to engage with his counsel.”

Schoen and John Mitchell have ...