Epstein Secrets

19995 11 WIRETAP ith three screens in his White House bedroom, the president was his own best cable y Y curator. But for print he depended on Hope Hicks. Hicks, who had been his junior aide for most of the campaign and his spokesperson (although, as he would point out, he was really his own spokespers

the media that could not be positively spun. The day after his “reset” speech before the joint session of Congress presented a certain conundrum for Hicks. Here were the first generally good notices for the administration. But in the Post, the Times, and the New Yorker that day, there was also an ugly b

otes to replace Paul Ryan as Speaker of the House with Mark Meadows, the head of the Tea Party-inspired Freedom Caucus and an early Trump supporter. (Meadows’s wife had a particular place of regard in the Trump camp for continuing a campaign swing across the Bible Belt over Billy Bush weekend.) Nearly as

h would characterize with a raised eyebrow as more “Breitbart shenanigans”— that they had the votes to replace Paul Ryan as Speaker of the House with Mark Meadows, the head of the Tea Party-inspired Freedom Caucus and an early Trump supporter. (Meadows’s wife had a particular place of regard in the Trump camp f

s anywhere near it. » * * The ultimate keeper of the secrets from the campaign, the transition, through the first year in the White House was Hope Hicks, the 14, House communications director. She had witnessed most everyth EFTA00316518 6 MICHAEL WOLFF She saw what the president saw: she knew wh

d out his threat not to sign the bill, he would bring on what they most feared: a shutdown. And he might well blame the shutdown on his own party. Mark Meadows, the head of the House Freedom Caucus and a staunch Trump ally in Congress, called the president from Europe to say that after the vote on Thursday

ght-wing adversary Mark Meadows, along with Bannon, had gotten behind a plan to push House majority leader Kevin McCarthy for chief of staff. Even Meadows, who hated McCarthy, was all for it. Here finally was a strat- egy: McCarthy, a top tactician, would refocus an unfocused White House on one mission

om/story/news/local/macomb-county/2020/11/12/former-macomb- prosecutor-eric-smiths-plea-hearing-moved-again-amid-virus-diagnosis/6274690002/> (11/12, Hicks, 825K) reports, "A plea hearing in former Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith's corruption case has been rescheduled a second time after he was dia

tested positive for the virus this week after attending campaign events in the lead-up to and days after the election." In addition to Lewandowski, Meadows, and Carson, Trump adviser David Bossie and White House Political Affairs Director Brian Jack "all tested positive for the coronavirus this week." T

d theft of funds from a federally funded program." Plea Hearing For Ex-Michigan Prosecutor Moved Again Due To Coronavirus. The Detroit News (11/12, Hicks, 825K) reports, "A plea hearing in former Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith's corruption case has been rescheduled a second time after he was dia

tested positive for the virus this week after attending campaign events in the lead-up to and days after the election." In addition to Lewandowski, Meadows, and Carson, Trump adviser David Bossie and White House Political Affairs Director Brian Jack "all tested positive for the coronavirus this week." T

d theft of funds from a federally funded program." Plea Hearing For Ex-Michigan Prosecutor Moved Again Due To Coronavirus. The Detroit News (11/12, Hicks, 825K) reports, "A plea hearing in former Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith's corruption case has been rescheduled a second time after he was dia

tested positive for the virus this week after attending campaign events in the lead-up to and days after the election." In addition to Lewandowski, Meadows, and Carson, Trump adviser David Bossie and White House Political Affairs Director Brian Jack "all tested positive for the coronavirus this week." T

ed about whether she had ever lied for the president. Perhaps a more accomplished communications professional could have escaped the corner here, but Hicks, who had scant experience other than working as Donald Trump's spokesperson, which, as often as not, meant dealing with his disregard of empirical tr

ied out his threat not to sign the bill, he would bring on what they most feared: a shutdown. And he might well blame the shutdown on his own party. Mark Meadows, the head of the House Freedom Caucus and a | staunch Trump ally in Congress, called the president from Europe to say that after the vote on Thursda

right-wing adversary Mark Meadows, along with Bannon, had gotten behind a plan to push House majority leader Kevin McCarthy for chief of staff. Even Meadows, who hated McCarthy, was all for it. Here finally was a strat- egy: McCarthy, a top tactician, would refocus an unfocused White House on one mission—