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

BC show Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski, came for lunch at the White House. Scarborough is a former Republican congressman from Pensacola, Florida, and Brzezinski is the daughter of Zbigniew Brzezinski, a high-ranking aide in the Johnson White House and Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor. Morning Joe had

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

, 6, 41 Brexit, 5 Britain, 70, 157 Brooks, Mel, 15 Bryan, William Jennings, 45 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020123 Brzezinski, Mika, 66-69, 121, 176, 247-49 Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 66 Buckley, William F., 127 Bush, Billy, 10, 13-14, 34, 86, 96, 161 Bush, George H. W., 26, 27, 34, 126 Bush, George W., 16, 27, 44, 82, 9

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

out if you didn’t hurry to the “but.” (Then again, saying anyone was “smart” invariably incurred Trump’s annoyance.) Kushner enlisted Scarborough and Brzezinski in something of a regular morning television Bannon slag-a-thon. H. R. McMaster, the three-star general who had replaced Michael Flynn as National S