Epstein Secrets

ded, Trump effectively clinched the nomination at the end of May 2016— before formally becoming the party's nominee in July at the GOP convention in Cleveland. The Wall Street Journal (07/21, Gurman) pointed out that if Trump were to be both the clear nominee—he is currently the clear front-runner—and conv

reene's defense, the article detailed, argued he was not a core follower, and a jury acquitted him of three felony counts, including conspiring with Rhodes and others and tampering with evidence. The article noted that a judge declared a mistrial on a fifth count after a jury hung on a charge of conspi

ng lettuce from other companies' greenhouses and marketing and distributing it. >> That hasn't been without hitches, either. One of his growers, in Cleveland, claims in a lawsuit that VFT fell behind on its bills within 11 weeks of signing a contract and now owes about $167,000. Levine says the lettuce w

He learned to be more wary last year, he says, when a CEO he'd been in negotiations with was arrested for fraud. >> A West Point valedictorian and Rhodes scholar, Clark retired from the Army in 2000 after serving as NATO's Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during the war in Kosovo. He ran for the 20

ski, and Jared Kushner, went in and out of the room. Conversations with members of the campaign’s team continued through the Republican Convention in Cleveland, when it was still hardly possible to conceive of Trump’s election. They moved on to Trump Tower with a voluble Steve Bannon—before the election, whe

n you are ahead. The Best and the Brightest described the people who should be in power. A college-age Barack Obama was smitten with the book, as was Rhodes Scholar Bill Clinton. Halberstam’s book defined the look and feel of White House power. His language, resonant and imposing and, often, boffo pompou