Epstein Secrets

d Democratic view in which he was raised, to an acolyte of Trumpism, bewildering many friends and, as well, his own brother, whose insurance company, Oscar, funded with Kushner-family money, was destined to be dealt a blow by a repeal of Obamacare. This seeming conversion was partly the result of Bannon

virtual policy, it has also been more open to the media than any White House in recent memory. In the beginning, I sought a level of formal access to this White House, something of a fly-on- the-wall status. The president himself encouraged this idea. But, given the many fiefdoms in the Trump White House that came

heeding Senate leader Mitch McConnell’s prescription that “this president will sign whatever is put in front of him,” while also taking advantage of the White House’s lack of political and legislative experience and outsourcing as much policy as possible to Capitol Hill. In the early weeks of the administration, P

om he had never met before, for positions whose importance Trump did not particularly understand. Ailes, a veteran of the Nixon, Reagan, and Bush 41 White Houses, was growing worried by the president-elect’s lack of immediate focus on a White House structure that could serve and protect him. He tried to impres

cific ideas about how to turn his themes and vitriol into policy, nor a team that could reasonably unite behind him. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019969 In most White Houses, policy and action flow down, with staff trying to implement what the president wants—or, at the very least, what the chief of staff says the preside

(OMB), 116, 185, 285 O’Neill, Tip, 167 opioid crisis, 291 O’Reilly, Bill, 195-96, 222 Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development, 271 Oscar insurance company, 72 Osnos, Evan, 154 Page, Carter, 101 Palestinians, 227, 230-32 Panetta, Leon, 27 Paris Climate Accord, 182, 238-39, 301 HOU

lic enemy; they expected nothing of him. But Priebus and Spicer HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020089 they regarded as functionaries, and their job was to support the White House’s goals, which included their goals and interests. Spicer, ever ridiculed in the media for his cockamamie defense of the White House and a seeming dum

ce his exit from the White House six weeks before—he was on a crash all-sushi diet. “That building,” said his friend David Bossie, speaking about all White Houses but especially the Trump White House, “takes perfectly healthy people and turns them into old, unhealthy people.” But Bannon, who Bossie had declared

e Palm: Beaches. Boynton Beach Prater, Martha E 91, of Lan- tana. died Saturday Tillman Fu- neral Home, West Palm Beach. Service Sunday. Rendon, Oscar, of Defray Beach, died Sunday. Genesis Funeral Home, Hollywood. Me- morial service Saturday. Rodriguez, Eugenio, 64, of West Palm Beach. died Jun

Ameri- cans. higher-quality care.' And around those goals, there are lots of ways to get there? Some of those ways, though, run counter to the White House's earlier posi- tions and those of Obama's political base. While supporters from his left have advocated a government-run option — championed by an

rder to thwart violence aimed at derailing the pact. Interviews with former chiefs of Israel's domestic security agency make up the entirety of the Oscar-nominated documentary The Gatekeepers, and when their talk turns to discovering that some Palestinians turn out to believe ardently in peace, the i

as "key contacts") began reaching out to Republican senators to say that now was not the time to vote on an Iran sanctions bill opposed fiercely by the White House, according to four Senate sources who spoke to The Daily Beast on condition of anonymity. Until then, AIPAC was willing to endure open criticism fr

uld only re-create the conditions that got us stuck in the first place. Interestingly, there are two Middle East films nominated this year for the Oscar in the documentary category. "Five Broken Cameras" represents the Palestinian perspective, and "The Gatekeepers" represents the Israeli perspective

olicy right." The pettiness was striking: "The White House kept a dossier on Holbrooke's misdeeds and Clinton kept a folder on churlish attempts by the White House's AfPak office to undermine Holbrooke." Diplomacy died. Serious negotiation with the Taliban and involving Iran in talks on Afghanistan's future — b

Albert's 18th birthday, home movies, letters from Alfred Hitchcock — to more public items, such as her much-photographed wedding gown, her 1955 Oscar dress and a dress from High Society. Don't want to make the jaunt to Monaco? Not to worry. A smaller version of the exhib- it will be at Sotheby'

hunt began, we now have to understand the underlying motive for the hunt. Joe Wilson, Plame's husband, was undermining the president by discrediting the White House's claim that Saddam Hussein was purchasing weapons-grade material from Niger. So naturally, when Plame was outed, a hue and cry went up from the usu