Epstein Secrets

. "Among those who have gotten the 'I barely know the guy' treatment: Former acting attorney general Matthew G. Whitaker, conservative commentator Ann Coulter, former lawyer Michael Cohen, fired FBI director James B. Comey, former senior White House aide Stephen K. Bannon, former campaign chairman Paul M

mping out Obama-era workplace regulations and employment discrimination lawsuits, and they are using the Epstein lawsuit to push him out the door. Mulvaney on Tuesday acknowledged the tension with Acosta but said it was merely part of the job. 'I push all of the Cabinet Secretaries on the deregulatory

ner and Lisa Rein report. "Some attorneys for victims questioned Acosta's tweet saying the evidence was new." -- Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney is privately urging Trump to dump Acosta, Politico's Eliana and Burgess Everett report: "Acosta critics, including Mulvaney, have argued that he h

rtain sort of conservative party line, it was also attentive to a wide variety of conservative celebrities, including, over the years, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, and various Fox News stars. The year before Obama’s reelection, Trump fell into this category. But he was viewed quite differently four years later.

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

to their status in the Trump Organization, without anyone apparently counseling against it. Finally, it was the right-wing diva and Trump supporter Ann Coulter who took the president-elect aside and said, “Nobody is apparently telling you this. But you can’t. You just can’t hire your children.” Trump contin

-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

. "Among those who have gotten the `I barely know the guy' treatment: Former acting attorney general Matthew G. Whitaker, conservative commentator Ann Coulter, former lawyer Michael Cohen, fired FBI director James B. Comey, former senior White House aide Stephen K. Bannon, former campaign chairman Paul Ma

gner and Lisa Rein report. "Some attorneys for victims questioned Acosta's tweet saying the evidence was new." -- Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney is privately urging Trump to dump Acosta, Politico's Eliana Johnson and Burgess Everett report: "Acosta critics, including Mulvaney, have argued th