Epstein Secrets

g the President's type is kept in the trunk. The Beast ascended the driveway of Jon Shirley, in the Seattle suburb of Medina, on Lake Washington. (Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates live in town, too.) Shirley earned his pile during the early days of high tech, first at Tandy and then, in the eighties, at Microso

ttle suburb of Medina, on Lake Washington. (Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates live in town, too.) Shirley earne

shington was "trapped in very stale narratives." "In the foreign-policy establishment, to be an idealist you have to be for military intervention," Rhodes went on. "In the Democratic Party, these debates were defined in the nineties, and the idealists lined up for military intervention. For the Presid

the swamp—that Bannon was encouraging him to wage, Trump could also be courted. In some sense, he wanted nothing so much as to be courted. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post, which had become one of the many Trump media bétes noires in the media world, nevertheless took pains to reach out

e campaign, Trump said Amazon was getting “away with murder taxwise” and that if he won, “Oh, do they have problems.” Now Trump was suddenly praising Bezos as “a top-level genius.” Elon Musk, in Trump Tower, pitched Trump on the new administration’s joining him in his race to Mars, which Trump jumped at.

n you are ahead. The Best and the Brightest described the people who should be in power. A college-age Barack Obama was smitten with the book, as was Rhodes Scholar Bill Clinton. Halberstam’s book defined the look and feel of White House power. His language, resonant and imposing and, often, boffo pompou

,000 year stretch of time. Hillis and the group of tinkerers, thinkers, and engineers who had backed and designed the clock - people such as Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, spreadsheet inventor Mitch Kapor or investor Esther Dyson - were planning on a project that would stretch as close to eternity as they felt reasonab

s IPOs) had paid for the clock, frankly. And the hope for “instant world” had inspired their dreams long before deep, fast connections were possible. Bezos’s first name for Amazon, Cadabara, captured just this sense of waving wands and the eye-blink “Now you don't see it, now you do!” appearance of just

lating to Affairs in Mashonaland, Matabeleand, and the Bechuanaland Protectorate, Nov 1893, 150 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018382 commander, a blood enemy of Rhodes, had warned Lobengula: “When an Englishman once has your property in his hands, then he is like a monkey that has its hands full of pumpkin seeds - i

02, 307 Beinart, Peter, 297 Benghazi, 97 Berkowitz, Avi, 143 Berlusconi, Silvio, 100 Berman, Mark, 78 Best and the Brightest, The (Halberstam), 53-54 Bezos, Jeff, 35 Biosphere 2, 56 Blackstone Group, 35, 78, 87, 298 Blackwater, 265 Blair, Tony, 156-58, 228 Blankfein, Lloyd, 144 Bloomberg, Michael, 117 Bo

, 253 Republican Party, 2, 18, 30, 40-41, 81, 86, 98, 111-12, 117-21, 128, 161-67, 171-72, 201, 290, 303 fracturing of, 179-80, 253, 283, 306, 309-10 Rhodes, Ben, 41, 154, 159, 185, 215 Rice, Susan, 7, 41, 153 Rometty, Ginni, 88 Rose, Charlie, 309 Rosen, Hillary, 78 Rosenstein, Rod, 212, 214, 216-21, 279