Epstein Secrets

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 leadership. That suited Bannon just fin

ore and more seemed to be. Meanwhile, virtually everybody believed that a large measure of the fault lay in Reince Priebus, who had failed to create a White House that could protect the president from himself—or from Bannon or from his own children. At the same time, believing that the fundamental problem lay i

and ritual and propriety, truly scored. The foreign policy establishment had a long and well-honed relationship with MBS’s rival, the crown prince, Mohammed bin Nayef (MBN). Key NSA and State Department figures were alarmed that Kushner’s discussions and fast-advancing relationship with MBS would send a dangerous m

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

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sive defense of America's heritage, which he claims is under attack." The New York Post (7/6, Fredericks, 4.57M) says the tweet "came minutes after White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany told reporters she was unaware of Trump's position on the issue." The Washington Examiner (7/6, Leonardi, 448K) report

e a former top Saudi intelligence officer now living in Toronto." Saad Aljabri, who held a cabinet-rank intelligence post under deposed crown prince Mohammed bin Nayef, "has been living in Toronto since a 2017 palace coup in Riyadh that left Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman - known by his initials MBS - as the de