Epstein Secrets

ressman, who has cultivated a close rela- tionship with the president and has taken a harder line than Mr. Tillerson on critical issues like Iran and North Korea. Mr. Tillerson's dismissal, on the heels of Gary D. Cohn's resigna- tion as Mr. Trump's chief eco- nomic adviser after a dispute over steel tariffs,

uesday, he announced that he intended to name her direc- tor of the C.I.A. • With his ele- vation of Ms. Haspel, now This article is by Mark Landler, Maggie Haberman and Gardiner Harris. WASHINGTON - President Trump ousted his secretary of state, Rex W. Tillerson, on Tues- day, the most dramatic in a cas- cade of

t in a monotone, Trump kept his head down, propping it on his elbows. After taking some humdrum questions about opioids, he was suddenly asked about North Korea, and, quite as though in stop-action animation, he seemed to come alive. North Korea had been a heavy-on-detail, short-on-answers problem that that

ma schedule note—the president had given a major interview to the New York Times. Jared and Ivanka, along with Hope Hicks, had set it up. The Zimes’s Maggie Haberman, Trump’s béte noire (“very mean, and not smart’) and yet his go-to journalist for some higher sort of approval, had been called in to see the preside

ndards for 5G wireless technology.'* In April 2018, the United States announced sanctions against ZTE for violating restrictions on sales to Iran and North Korea, barring American companies from transacting with the company. This would have effectively put ZTE out of business because of its dependence on Ameri

ded that U.S. intelligence officials believed that the president’s associates “were most likely unaware of any Chinese effort. Rosenberg, Matthew and Maggie Haberman. “When Trump Phones Friends, the Chinese and the Russians Listen and Learn.” New York Times. October 24, 2018. https://www.nytimes. com/2018/10/24/us