Epstein Secrets

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

oyalty of his staff. The initial subject of his ire was the New York Times and its reporter Maggie Haberman, whom he called “a nut job.” The Zimes’s Gail Collins, who had written a column unfavorably comparing Trump to Vice President Pence, was “a moron.” But then, continuing under the rubric of media he hated

er a cliff, or raising income taxes on the rich he looked somber and somewhat unhappy. This may have been because his Republican colleagues just lost the White House and the Senate. Or per- haps, it was simply because he’s an older white guy, and, therefore, part of the biggest loser demographic of the election, t

to be SO perpehially and visibly available that the negotiators beg to be left alone. If all else fails, strap John Boehner to the roof of a car. — Gail Collins is a New York Times columnist. . AINER 2atd Can Republicans ada This was one that the Republicans really should have won. Given the weak economy

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of 10th-graders? If it doesn't, that's bad. If it does. that's worse. DIESL 37 FUELE. MADE FROM AND FRENCH HAMBURGER PEP GALLON FRY GREASE' Gail Collins 7 YOU Dimir KNOW? THE SAUDIS ewswT EVEN FASEFOOD RESTAURANT • IN AMERICA! Obama's post-primary crisis Everybody knows that the first rule in

but could only do it if President Trump asks him." -- A former congressional staffer who fought to discredit the Russia investigation got a senior White House national security job. From the Daily Beast: "Kash Patel, who helmed the efforts of former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes to scr

, and That Might Have Been Enough." • Reuters's James Oliphant: "Biden steadies ship while setting up impending clash with Warren." • The Times's Gail Collins: "Let's have another debate with just Warren versus Biden. And maybe we'll throw in Booker and Sanders." • The Atlantic's David A. Graham: "Biden