Epstein Secrets

on about Kushner’s meeting with Kislyak. OOK Ok Few jobs in the Trump administration seemed so right, fitting, and even destined to their holder as Jeff Sessions’s appointment as the nation’s top law enforcement officer. As he viewed his work as AG, it was his mandate to curb, circumscribe, and undo the interpre

president was shown the story, he didn’t see its significance. “So what?” he said. Well, during his confirmation, it was explained to the president, Sessions had said he HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019996 didn’t. Facing Sessions at the January 10 hearing, Al Franken, the former comedian and Democratic senator from

HT_020046 As it happened, the Justice Department—Attorney General Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein—were,

ired right off the bat.) Also that week, there was a meeting that included the president, Jared and Ivanka, Bannon, Priebus, and White House counsel Don McGahn. It was a closed-door meeting— widely noted because it was unusual for the Oval Office door ever to be closed. All the Democrats hate Comey, said th

White House, has prepared the case, but it requires the approval of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who-with the recusal of Attorney General Jeff Sessions from the Russia-related investigation - HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029165 --- PAGE BREAK --- oversees the Mueller team. Indeed, Rosenstein, as recently as Apr

torney General Rod Rosenstein—in his role as acting Attorney General, after the recusal of Attorney General Jefferson Sessions— the President accused Sessions of "disloyalty" for recusing himself from the Russian investigation. In June 2017, the indictment alleges, the President ordered Robert Mueller to be

tigation. In June 2017, the indictment alleges, the President ordered Robert Mueller to be fired, reversing course only when the White House counsel, Don McGahn, refused to implement the order. On July 8, after reports of a meeting between the President's son, Donald Trump, Jr., and a Russian agent, Natalia V

g and killing five people, including two children." According to Reuters (7/25, Lynch), "Early in the Trump administration, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered the Federal Bureau of Prisons to examine what steps might be required to resume the use of the death penalty," and in March 2018, Sessions "

ump administration, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered the Federal Bureau of Prisons to examine

cted justice on 12 different occasions. Even if you were to be of the opinion that he actually didn't get to go all the way through with it because Don McGahn didn't follow through, the intent to obstruct justice is a crime as well." But the Daily Caller (7/25, Conklin, 716K) reports that House Intelligenc

a, the federal pros- ecutor there, a move whose optics were alarming to all of his advisers, including Don McGahn and the incoming attorney general, Jeff Sessions. (The meeting foreshadowed the one Trump would shortly have with Comey, during which he sought a pledge of loyalty in return for job secu- rity.) H

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t go away" was one of t frequent orders. It was often said in triplicate: "Make it go away, make go away, make it go away" The White House counsel Don McGahn—representing the Whi EFTA00316516 2 MICHAEL WOLFF SIEGE House rather than, in a distinction Trump could never firmly grasp, the president hims

it go away” was one of | frequent orders. It was often said in triplicate: “Make it go away, make go away, make it go away.” The White House counsel Don McGahn—representing the Whi HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021124 --- PAGE BREAK --- 2 MICHAEL WOLFF House rather than, in a distinction Trump could never firmly grasp

ra, the federal pros- ecutor there, a move whose optics were alarming to all of his advisers, including Don McGahn and the incoming attorney general, Jeff Sessions. (The meeting foreshadowed the one Trump would shortly have with Comey, during which he sought a pledge of loyalty in return for job secu- rity.) His

on McGahn and the incoming attorney general, Jeff Sessions. (The meeting foreshadowed the one Trump would sh