Epstein Secrets

ompany (founded by former journalists, it provided information to private clients), had been retained by Democratic Party interests. Fusion had hired Christopher Steele, a former British spy, in June 2016, to help investigate Trump’s repeated brags about his relationship with Vladimir Putin and the nature of Trump’s

nature of Trump’s relationship with the Kremlin. With reports from Russian sources, many HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019911 connected to Russian intelligence, Steele assembled a damaging report—now dubbed the “dossier’—suggesting that Donald Trump was being blackmailed by the Putin government. In September, Steele

r Stone, was noisily ousted by Lewandowski, and then Trump exponentially increased the public dirty-clothes-washing by suing Nunberg. Lewandowski and Hope Hicks, the PR aide put on the campaign by Ivanka Trump, had an affair that ended in a public fight on the street—an incident cited by Nunberg in his respon

9, 241, 243, 261-62, 278-80 Obama wiretapping story and, 157-60 sanctions and, 105—7, 226 Sessions and, 151-52, 155-56, 245-46 Syria and, 190-91, 226 Steele dossier and, 37-39, 92-93, 102, 151, 156 Russian oligarchs, 17, 81, 100-101, 254 Ryan, Paul, 32, 117-21, 159-67, 170-72, 224 Sandberg, Sheryl, 187, 2

, 217-18, 223, 229, 251-52, 257-58, 261, 272-73, 282, 286, 296, 307 Spy magazine, 74 Starr, Ken, 233 State Department, 63, 86, 228-29, 231 Steele, Christopher, 37, 99 Steele dossier, 37-39, 92-93, 102, 151, 156 steel industry, 67-68 Steinmetz, Benny, 211 Stone, Roger, 13, 17, 55, 288 Strange, Luther, 30

gton, Sean Spicer and everybody else from the communications office was relegated to the back of the plane and excluded from the panicky discussions. Hope Hicks became the senior communications strategist, with the president, as always, her singular client. In the days following, that highest political state

ind a question. Stopping and starting, slogging through his sentence construction, Franken, who had been handed a question based on the just-revealed Steele dossier, got to this end: These documents also allegedly say, quote, “There was a continuing exchange of information during the campaign between Tru

d. It was a turning point. Until now, Trump’s inner circle had been mostly game to defend him. But after the wiretap tweets, everybody, save perhaps Hope Hicks, moved into a state of queasy sheepishness, if not constant incredulity. Sean Spicer, for one, kept repeating his daily, if not hourly, mantra: “You