Epstein Secrets

USE_OVERSIGHT_020114 president’s part. The daily discussion among senior staffers, those still there and those now gone—all of whom had written off Tillerson’s future in the Trump administration—was how long General Kelly would last as chief of staff. There was something of a virtual office pool, and the j

believed that the sole upside of being part of the Trump White House was to help prevent worse from happening. In early October, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s fate was sealed—if his obvious ambivalence toward the president had not already sealed it—by the revelation that he had called the president “a fucki

ge Bannon’s ouster by McMaster’s hand from the NSC. With the president promising that he would make up his mind by August, and McMaster, Mattis, and Tillerson pressing for a decision as soon as possible, Bannon- inspired media began a campaign to brand McMaster as a globalist, interventionist, and all aroun

ma schedule note—the president had given a major interview to the New York Times. Jared and Ivanka, along with Hope Hicks, had set it up. The Zimes’s Maggie Haberman, Trump’s béte noire (“very mean, and not smart’) and yet his go-to journalist for some higher sort of approval, had been called in to see the preside

of Ms. Haspel, now This article is by Mark Landler, Maggie Haberman and Gardiner Harris. WASHINGTON - President Trump ousted his secretary of state, Rex W. Tillerson, on Tues- day, the most dramatic in a cas- cade of personnel moves that sug- gest Mr. Trump is determined to surround himself with loyalists more wil

Trump is determined to surround himself with loyalists more willing to reflect his "Amer- ica First" views. Mr. Trump announced he would replace Mr. Tillerson with Mike Pompeo, the C.I.A. director and former Tea Party congressman, who has cultivated a close rela- tionship with the president and has taken a

uesday, he announced that he intended to name her direc- tor of the C.I.A. • With his ele- vation of Ms. Haspel, now This article is by Mark Landler, Maggie Haberman and Gardiner Harris. WASHINGTON - President Trump ousted his secretary of state, Rex W. Tillerson, on Tues- day, the most dramatic in a cas- cade of

extensively in international issues now that the State Department is run by [Mike] Pompeo, whom he sees as far more competent than his predecessor, Rex W. Tillerson." -- Mike Bloomberg won't release the women who sued him from their nondisclosure agreements. From ABC News: "'You can't just walk away from it,'

E BREAK --- 2020 WATCH: -- Jared Kushner's global role is shrinking as his role in the president's reelection campaign grows. From Annie Karni and Maggie Haberman in the Times: "When senior administration officials gathered in the Situation Room on Tuesday for a meeting to discuss the repercussions of the kil