Epstein Secrets

we had another one yesterday which was interesting. In the Oval Office there’s a beautiful statue of Dr. Martin Luther King and I also happen to like Churchill—Winston Churchill—I think most of us like Churchill, doesn’t come from our country but had a lot to do with it, helped us, real ally, and as you know

virtual policy, it has also been more open to the media than any White House in recent memory. In the beginning, I sought a level of formal access to this White House, something of a fly-on- the-wall status. The president himself encouraged this idea. But, given the many fiefdoms in the Trump White House that came

heeding Senate leader Mitch McConnell’s prescription that “this president will sign whatever is put in front of him,” while also taking advantage of the White House’s lack of political and legislative experience and outsourcing as much policy as possible to Capitol Hill. In the early weeks of the administration, P

om he had never met before, for positions whose importance Trump did not particularly understand. Ailes, a veteran of the Nixon, Reagan, and Bush 41 White Houses, was growing worried by the president-elect’s lack of immediate focus on a White House structure that could serve and protect him. He tried to impres

cific ideas about how to turn his themes and vitriol into policy, nor a team that could reasonably unite behind him. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019969 In most White Houses, policy and action flow down, with staff trying to implement what the president wants—or, at the very least, what the chief of staff says the preside

of success is evident in each of the countries represented, and on how to fight to restore balance in their lives. In terms of where we are today, Winston Churchill said a famous phrase stating that the United States and the United Kingdom are "two nations divided by a common language." And we could add a commo

lives. In terms of where we are today, Winston Churchill said a famous phrase stating that the United Stat

ithner, then the Treasury secretary, said the administration's plan was devised so that the corporate tax code could be overhauled separately. Even the White House's rollout of the President's proposal in Chattanooga became an excuse for finger-pointing. White House officials said they briefed Democratic and Rep

, 24-25, 30-31, 210, 242, 279 Christoff, Niki, 78 Churchill, Winston, 50 Circa news website, 159, 257 Clapper

lic enemy; they expected nothing of him. But Priebus and Spicer HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020089 they regarded as functionaries, and their job was to support the White House’s goals, which included their goals and interests. Spicer, ever ridiculed in the media for his cockamamie defense of the White House and a seeming dum

ce his exit from the White House six weeks before—he was on a crash all-sushi diet. “That building,” said his friend David Bossie, speaking about all White Houses but especially the Trump White House, “takes perfectly healthy people and turns them into old, unhealthy people.” But Bannon, who Bossie had declared

tions against the people of Hong Kong." Hong Kong, he added, "will now be treated the same as mainland China." The South China Morning Post (7/14, Churchill, 138K) says "the latest move by Trump could open up Hong Kong to the tariffs his administration has slapped on Chinese exports," but Politico (7/14

here to help. ... It's the right thing to do." Edwards, Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and John Kennedy (R-LA), "higher education leaders and members of the White House's coronavirus task force joined Pence during a roundtable discussion at LSU." Pence and White House coronavirus task force coordinator Deborah Birx a

isions at Calais waiting for the imagined attack. Without this intelligence advantage, the Allies would have needed a much larger invasion force, and Churchill believed Turing’s work shortened the war by as much as two years. The cracking of Enigma remained a secret after the war and Turing’s story remained

amental unknowns in the world. Donald Rumsfeld famously summed up the problem of unknowns in an attempt to clarify a question from a journalist at a Whitehouse press conference: “There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there ar

ersize Easter bunny in his bright-yellow sleeping suit. “On hearing Winston Churchill’s motto, “Never, never, never, never give up,’ [Richard] called Churchill halfhearted,” she said. Hillary thinks this also perfectly captures her own theory of persistence. Aloft, the secretary of state can often be found

y enjoyed when he would disappear into the airplane restroom and emerge like an oversize Easter bunny in his bright-yellow sleeping suit. “On hearing Winston Churchill’s motto, “Never, never, never, never give up,’ [Richard] called Churchill halfhearted,” she said. Hillary thinks this also perfectly captures her own t

ns are far-fetched. When Bob Woodward said on CNN last fall that Hillary’s switching jobs with Joe Biden was “on the table,” the reaction inside both the White House and State Department was to scoff. Neither has an incentive to switch. With the Iraq portfolio already in his pocket, Biden gets plenty of foreign-po