Epstein Secrets

h unexpected debt and useless degrees if schools lose their accreditation or go out of business." -- Trump hosted Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel, the pro-Trump billioniare who sits on the company's board, for a secret dinner at the White House last month. From NBC News: "Facebook confirmed

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each Trump. But they should punish him." • Deputy editorial page editor Ruth Marcus: "The House is now fully entitled to hear from Pence, Pompeo, Mulvaney and Giuliani." • Jennifer Rubin: "If Pompeo doesn't testify, he should be impeached." • Kathleen Parker: "It looks like Republicans are trying to

sonal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani. Sondland testified that top-level officials — including [Vice President] Pence, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo — were made aware at various points of what was happening, and he provided emails to back up his assertions. `E

ith unexpected debt and useless degrees if schools lose their accreditation or go out of business." - Trump hosted Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel, the pro-Trump billioniare who sits on the company's board, for a secret dinner at the White House last month. From NBC News: "Facebook confirmed t

rom NBC News: "Facebook confirmed the meeting ... on Wednesday. ... It is unclear why the meeting was not made public or what Trump, Zuckerberg and Thiel discussed." -- So swampy: Dozens of Facebook lobbyists are tied to members of Congress, a new investigation shows. From the Guardian: "So far this

peach Trump. But they should punish him." • Deputy editorial page editor Ruth Marcus: "The House is now fully entitled to hear from Pence, Pompeo, Mulvaney and Giuliani." • Jennifer Rubin: "If Pompeo doesn't testify, he should be impeached." • Kathleen Parker: "It looks like Republicans are trying to

sonal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani. Sondland testified that top-level officials — including [Vice President] Pence, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo — were made aware at various points of what was happening, and he provided emails to back up his assertions. 'Ev

t’s coming.” HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020050 17 ABROAD AND AT HOME n May 12, Roger Ailes was scheduled to return to New York from Palm Beach to meet with Peter Thiel, an early and lonely Trump supporter in Silicon Valley who had become increasingly astonished by Trump’s unpredictability. Ailes and Thiel, both worr

with Peter Thiel, an early and lonely Trump supporter in Silicon Valley who had become increasingly astonished by Trump’s unpredictability. Ailes and Thiel, both worried that Trump could bring Trumpism down, were set to discuss the funding and launch of a new cable news network. Thiel would pay for it an

ding to Walsh.) At three-thirty, Ryan called the president to say he was short fifteen to twenty votes and needed to pull the vote. Bannon, backed by Mulvaney, who had become the White House’s Hill operative, continued to urge an immediate vote. A defeat here would be a major defeat for the Republican leade

had to work through significantly more complicated contortions of personal and career justification. Often they wore their qualms on their sleeves. Mick Mulvaney, the OMB director, made a point of stressing the fact that he worked in the Executive Office Building, not the West Wing. Michael Anton, holding down

do it. He wasn’t a tough guy. He was “a big warm-hearted monkey,” said Bannon, with rather faint praise. PayPal cofounder and Facebook board member Peter Thiel—really the only significant Silicon Valley voice to support Trump—was warned by another billionaire and longtime Trump friend that Trump would, in an

ilicon Valley voice to support Trump—was warned by another billionaire and longtime Trump friend that Trump would, in an explosion of flattery, offer Thiel his undying friendship. Everybody says you’re great, you and I are going to have an amazing working relationship, anything you want, call me and we'l

-bore for him. “The first couple of times when I went to the White House, someone had to say, This is Mick Mulvaney, he’s the budget director,” said Mulvaney. And in Mulvaney’s telling Trump was too scattershot to ever be of much help, tending to interrupt planning with random questions that seem to have c

by Bannon. He made several attempts to comb through his father-in-law’s words on his own before expressing frustration with the task and giving up. Mick Mulvaney, the former South Carolina congressman now head of the Office of Management and Budget and directly charged with creating the Trump budget that would

ng into, “When I am president ...” The top Trump donors from 2016 were in his camp, Bannon claimed: Sheldon Adelson, the Mercers, Bernie Marcus, and Peter Thiel. In short order, and as though he had been preparing for this move for some time, Bannon had left the White House and quickly thrown together a rump

SE_OVERSIGHT_020135 Syria, 42, 183-84, 188-93, 219, 226, 265 Taliban, 267 tax reform, 87, 167, 224, 290 Tea Party, 5, 18, 26, 33, 58-59, 128, 161-63 Thiel, Peter, 21, 222, 309 Thrush, Glenn, 91, 277 Tillerson, Rex, 4, 21, 86, 211, 225, 229, 265, 267, 296, 304-6 Time magazine, 50, 56, 93, 130, 147, 276 T

of discussion almost from day one. Among the string of HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020099 candidates were Powell and Cohn, the Jarvanka favorites; OMB director Mick Mulvaney, one of the Bannon picks; and Kelly. In fact, Kelly—who would soon abjectly apologize to Priebus for the basic lack of courtesy in the way his dismi