Epstein Secrets

Guardian (07/27, Pengelly), Associated Press (07/27, Tucker), Independent (07/27, Marcus), NBC News (07/27, Reiss, Haake), Raw Story (07/27, Rubin), Washington Times (07/27, Mordock), Washington Post (07/27, Dawsey, Hsu, Barrett, Stein), Al Jazeera (07/27, Staff Writer), and BBC News (07/27, Matza) also reported

rmation, to which he pleaded not guilty. Secret Service agents, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, Jared Kushner, and former Trump aide Hope Hicks also testified before the grand jury. In mid-July, Smith informed Trump he was a target in the investigation, and his attorneys met with Smith's tea

uardian (07/27, Pengelly), Associated Press (07/27, Tucker), Independent (07/27, Marcus), NBC News (07/27, Reiss, Haake), Raw Story (07/27, Rubin), Washington Times (07/27, Mordock), Washington Post (07/27, Dawsey, Hsu, Barrett, Stein), Al Jazeera (07/27, Staff Writer), and BBC News (07/27, Matza) also reported

rmation, to which he pleaded not guilty. Secret Service agents, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, Jared Kushner, and former Trump aide Hope Hicks also testified before the grand jury. In mid-July, Smith informed Trump he was a target in the investigation, and his attorneys met with Smith's tea

use, Conway was interviewed in Oprah-like style by Mercedes Schlapp (wife of Matt Schlapp—CPAC was a family affair), a columnist for the conservative Washington Times who would later join the White House communications staff. It was an intimate and inspirational view of a woman of high achievement, the kind of inte

d. It was a turning point. Until now, Trump’s inner circle had been mostly game to defend him. But after the wiretap tweets, everybody, save perhaps Hope Hicks, moved into a state of queasy sheepishness, if not constant incredulity. Sean Spicer, for one, kept repeating his daily, if not hourly, mantra: “You

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gton, Sean Spicer and everybody else from the communications office was relegated to the back of the plane and excluded from the panicky discussions. Hope Hicks became the senior communications strategist, with the president, as always, her singular client. In the days following, that highest political state