Epstein Secrets

vernment as avoiding conflict. This included most people in office. The new appointees in place at the affected agencies and departments, among them Homeland Security and State—General John Kelly, then the director of Homeland Security, would carry a grudge about the disarray caused by the immigration EO—wanted not

cting AG job needed someone with Senate confirmation. And even though she seemed to see herself as something of a prisoner held in hostile territory, Yates accepted the job. Given this context, the curious information she presented to White House counsel Don McGahn during the administration’s first week

White House in its assessment of the Yates message ended up seeing this as less a problem with an always hard-to-handle Flynn than as a problem with Yates, even as a threat from her: the Justice Department, with its vast staff of career and Obama-inclined prosecutors, had ears on the Trump team. 7 OK O

ic ways of doing it—which had in fact been suggested to Trump. (A curious one—an idea that later would seem ironic—was to get rid of General Kelly at Homeland Security and move Comey into that job.) But the point really was that Trump had wanted to confront and humiliate the FBI director. Cruelty was a Trump attribu

itutions. To Trump, he was just up against Sally Yates, who was, he steamed, “such a cunt.” HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020045 Since her firing on January 30, Yates had remained suspiciously quiet. When journalists approached her, she, or her intermediaries, explained that per her lawyers she was shut down on all

mp believed, of a sustained and well-organized media rollout for her. (His press view was confirmed later in May by a lavish, hagiographic profile of Yates in the New Yorker. “How long do you think she was planning this?” he asked, rhetorically. “You know she was. It’s her payday.”) “Yates is only famous

attacks to thwart terrorists to instead supplement local law enforcement in ways that bolster his reelection chances." Trump has "already deployed Homeland Security agents to Portland," and under Trump's "latest plan, yet to be publicly announced, about 150 Homeland Security Investigations agents would go to Chi

f Travers Says Cutbacks Raise Risk Of New Terrorist Attacks. COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE • DO) Prepared For More Mueller Declassifications. • Graham Says Yates, Comey, McCabe Will Be Called To Testify Before Election. • Op-Ed: Mainstream Media Fails To Provide Complete Story On Russia Probe. • Steele Text

attacks to thwart terrorists to instead supplement local law enforcement in ways that bolster his reelection chances." Trump has "already deployed Homeland Security agents to Portland," and under Trump's "latest plan, yet to be publicly announced, about 150 Homeland Security Investigations agents would go to Ch

f Travers Says Cutbacks Raise Risk Of New Terrorist Attacks. COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE • DO) Prepared For More Mueller Declassifications. • Graham Says Yates, Comey, McCabe Will Be Called To Testify Before Election. • Op-Ed: Mainstream Media Fails To Provide Complete Story On Russia Probe. • Steele Text

attacks to thwart terrorists to instead supplement local law enforcement in ways that bolster his reelection chances." Trump has "already deployed Homeland Security agents to Portland," and under Trump's "latest plan, yet to be publicly announced, about 150 Homeland Security Investigations agents would go to Ch

f Travers Says Cutbacks Raise Risk Of New Terrorist Attacks. COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE • DO) Prepared For More Mueller Declassifications. • Graham Says Yates, Comey, McCabe Will Be Called To Testify Before Election. • Op-Ed: Mainstream Media Fails To Provide Complete Story On Russia Probe. • Steele Text

staff fit in Trumpworld? While Kelly stood somewhere right of center on the political spectrum and had been a willing tough immigration enforcer at Homeland Security, he was not anywhere near so right as Bannon or Trump. “He’s not hardcore” was Bannon’s regretful appraisal. At the same time, Kelly was certainly no

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