Epstein Secrets

told Trump not long after the election. “You’ll want to be your own son of a bitch, but you don’t know Washington.” Ailes had a suggestion: “Speaker Boehner.” (John Boehner had been the Speaker of the House until he was forced out in a Tea Party putsch in 2011.) “Who’s that?” asked Trump. Everybody in T

point. Fusion GPS, an opposition research company (founded by former journalists, it provided information to private clients), had been retained by Democratic Party interests. Fusion had hired Christopher Steele, a former British spy, in June 2016, to help investigate Trump’s repeated brags about his relationship

os, Jeff, 35 Biosphere 2, 56 Blackstone Group, 35, 78, 87, 298 Blackwater, 265 Blair, Tony, 156-58, 228 Blankfein, Lloyd, 144 Bloomberg, Michael, 117 Boehner, John, 26, 161 Boeing, 88 Bolton, John, 4-5, 189 border wall, 77-78, 228, 280, 303 Bossie, David, 58, 144, 177, 234, 237, 301 Bowles, Erskine, 27 Boy

ily Mail, 15, 308 Daley, Bill, 27 Davis, Lanny, 233, 238 Dean, John, 212-13 Defense Intelligence Agency, 101 Democratic National Committee (DNC), 101 Democratic Party, 37, 97, 212, 310 Deripaska, Oleg, 17, 101, 240 Devils Bargain, The (Green), 276, 289 DeVos, Betsy, 21, 129 DeYoung, Karen, 105-6 Dickerson, John, 20

he end, it sounded as if the only cliff-avoidance Boehner was real- ly interested in was one that caised ne

sufficiently shaken that it shifts to the center. Ove hopeful sign is that political parties usually care more about winning than about purism. Thus the Democratic Party embraced the pragmatic center-left Bill Clinton in 1992 after three consecutive losses in presidential elections. That was painful for many liberals