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

or elective office: a failed bid for Wisconsin state senate. He became the chairman of the state party and then the general counsel of the Republican National Committee. In 2011 he stepped up to chairmanship of the RNC. Priebus’s political cred came from appeasing the Tea Party in Wisconsin, and his association with

ian-im-not-concerned-that-trump> (11/15, Choi, 2.98M) reports Giroir "confirmed a report on Sunday that...Trump has not attended a meeting with the [White House's coronavirus task force] in several months, but said he is `not concerned' about Trump's absence." Giroir asserted, "The vice president does chair th

dded the vaccines "are coming from the greatest companies anywhere in the world, greatest labs in the world, but he doesn't trust the fact that it's this White House, this administration, so we won't be delivering it to New York until we have authorization to do so and that pains me to say that." According to CN

x's news division as insufficiently supportive of the President. Sources told the Journal that Hicks Equity Partners, which has ties to a Republican National Committee co-chair, has been in talks to acquire and invest in Newsmax, although Newsmax Media CEO Chris Ruddy said no deal was ever reached with the private

akashima report. "The latest removals came as DHS's top cybersecurity official, Christopher Krebs, told colleagues he, too, expected to be fired by the White House at any moment. ... His agency joined state and local election officials in releasing a statement Thursday refuting claims by the president and his

d for her resignation, as well as Bryan Ware, a senior policy aide at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. The requests came from the White House's Presidential Personnel Office, whose 3o-year-old director, John McEntee, has recently intensified efforts to purge appointees who have failed to de

" • Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), the dean of the House, tested positive. (Colby Itkowitz) • Trump campaign adviser Corey Lewandowski and Republican National Committee chief of staff Richard Walters also tested positive, bringing this latest outbreak among Trump's inner circle to 14 people. (NYT) Covid's long, da

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

annonism: stop thinking you can somehow get along with your enemies. As the debate went on, Priebus pushed for one of his deputies at the Republican National Committee, Sean Spicer, a well-liked forty-five-year-old Washington political professional with a string of posts on the Hill in the George W. Bush years as we

ad in the U.S. it's hard to tell if there are more incidences of post-viral complications than other diseases like the flu." Gottlieb also "defended the White House's slow response to the pandemic, saying the U.S.'s broad initial failure was not the fault of `just one person.' Scientists Investigating How SARS-Co

oard-is-under-pressure-to-delay-election- results-11606129209> (11/23, O'Brien, Goldman, Subscription Publication, 7.57M) states that the Republican National Committee and the Senate campaign of John James have requested the board audit the Wayne County results, particularly with respect to how mail-in ballots were

senior director for counterterrorism, along with current officials." Reuters (1/22) reports that in addition to the assessment, Psaki "said that...the White House would build out capability within its National Security Council to counter domestic violent extremism, including a policy review on how the federal

ed split over whether it was constitutional to hold an impeachment trial for a president who had already left office. ... Members of the Republican National Committee also were in a heated debate over the weekend on how to respond to impeachment - and how fiercely to defend Trump, who maintains support among a maj

Ameri- cans. higher-quality care.' And around those goals, there are lots of ways to get there? Some of those ways, though, run counter to the White House's earlier posi- tions and those of Obama's political base. While supporters from his left have advocated a government-run option — championed by an

tion by 323 votes out of nearly 2 million cast. Deeds had about half the vote with nearly all precincts reporting. His foes, former Democratic National Committee chair- man Terry McAuliffe and Brian Moran. had about a quarter of the vote each. Fla. graduation rate fifth-lowest in U.S. ,Amm— Florida's high