Epstein Secrets

nd interfering actions by the president that might, McGahn feared, comprise the basis of obstruction charges. Deeply involved with the conservative Federalist Society and its campaign for "textualist" judges McGahn had long dreamed himself of becoming a federal judge him- self, but given the no-man's-land he occup

a, the federal pros- ecutor there, a move whose optics were alarming to all of his advisers, including Don McGahn and the incoming attorney general, Jeff Sessions. (The meeting foreshadowed the one Trump would shortly have with Comey, during which he sought a pledge of loyalty in return for job secu- rity.) H

on McGahn and the incoming attorney general, Jeff Sessions. (The meeting foreshadowed the one Trump would s

, 271 Facebook, 21 Farage, Nigel, 275 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI, 6, 11, 42, 96, 98, 101—2, 156, 159, 168-70, 210-20, 235, 244-46, 255, 281 Federalist Society, 86 Federal Reserve, 276 Fields, James Alex, Jr., 293 Financial Times, 278 First Amendment, 136 Five, The (TV show), 273 Florida, 60 Flynn, Michael,

focusing the blame for the Comey-Mueller mess on Sessions, even more forcefully belittling and threatening

going to do? Am I going to go in and save him? He’s Donald Trump. He’s always gonna do things. He wants an unrecused attorney general. I told him if Jeff Sessions goes, Rod Rosenstein goes, and then Rachel Brand’—the associate attorney general, next in line after Rosenstein—“goes, we’ll be digging down into Oba

on McGahn and the incoming attorney general, Jeff Sessions. (The meeting foreshadowed the one Trump would sh

ra, the federal pros- ecutor there, a move whose optics were alarming to all of his advisers, including Don McGahn and the incoming attorney general, Jeff Sessions. (The meeting foreshadowed the one Trump would shortly have with Comey, during which he sought a pledge of loyalty in return for job secu- rity.) His

and interfering actions by the president that might, McGahn feared, comprise the basis of obstruction charges. Deeply involved with the conservative Federalist Society and its campaign for “textualist” judges. McGahn had long dreamed himself of becoming a federal judge him- self, but given the no-man’-land he occupi