Epstein Secrets

dence, believing that he had). And so it was with Director Comey. In their several meetings since he took office—

ni. He believed they would both perform kamikaze acts for him—yjust as everyone else knew they would almost certainly never be confirmed. OOK Ok As James Comey’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee approached—it would take place on June 8, twelve days after the presidential traveling party retur

ng investigation and is classified I cannot say more about what we are doing and whose conduct we are examining. He had, however, said quite enough. Comey converted rumor, leaks, theory, innuendo, and pundit hot air—and until this moment that was all there was, at best the hope of a scandal—into a forma

son-in-law. After the president fired Flynn in February, he had spent two days at Mar-a-Lago interviewing replacements, badly taxing his patience. John Bolton, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and Bannon’s consistent choice, made his aggressive light-up-the-world, go-to-war pitch. Then Lt.

ical question. He insisted on an answer, and affirmative one: "Mr. President, you're not a target?' Early in his tenu Trump had pushed FBI director James Comey to provide precisely tl reassurance. In one of the signature moves of his presidency, he had fir Comey in May 2017 in part because he wasn't satisf

es of his presidency, he had fir Comey in May 2017 in part because he wasn't satisfied with the enth siasm of the affirmation and therefore assumed Comey was plotti against him. Whether the president was indeed a target—and it would surely he taken a through-the-looking-glass exercise not to see him

t choices during the presidential transition—in central posts in the Trump administration. Mike Pompeo had recently been named secretary of state, John Bolton would soon become the national security advisor, and Larry Kudlow had been appointed director of the National Economic Council. The president's chi

s, "A 'good friend' of former FBI Director James Comey defended the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Co

st (1/15, Ross, 81K). Wittes Defends Ms Appointment. The Washington Examiner (1/15, Chaitin, 448K) reports, "A 'good friend' of former FBI Director James Comey defended the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court's controversial pick to oversee reforms in the FISA process: Benjamin Wines, editor-in-chief of

News (1/15, lead story, 2:40, Holt, 1.11M) that Democrats are "demanding the Senate call additional witnesses, like former National Security Adviser John Bolton," but "Republicans are attacking it as a partisan sham, emphasizing that House Democrats never subpoenaed Bolton." Paul Says He'll Force Tough Witn

the article, the FBI had historically partnered with the ADL, with records showing collaboration as far back as the 1940s, and former FBI Director James Comey once highlighted the bureau's joint work with the ADL on civil rights and hate crime training for state and local law enforcement. The article expla

aide lacking prosecutorial experience, raising concerns of Justice Department politicization. According to the article, Trump had publicly declared Comey "guilty as hell" before the indictment, while critics such as former Bush White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter and state attorneys general war

ichard Painter and state attorneys general warned that the Justice Department was being used to target political opponents, citing the FBI raids of John Bolton and investigations into Letitia James and Adam Schiff as examples. The article noted that Trump's administration has also dropped investigations int

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urvived the release of the Billy Bush tape when, in the uproar that followed, the RNC had had the gall to pressure him to quit the race. FBI director James Comey, having bizarrely hung Hillary out to dry by saying he was reopening the investigation into her emails eleven days before the election, had helped av

Trump guys who signed all those letters and all the neocons who got us in all these wars ... It’s not a deep bench.” Bannon said he’d tried to push John Bolton, the famously hawkish diplomat, for the job as National Security Advisor. Bolton was an Ailes favorite, too. “He’s a bomb thrower,” said Ailes. “And

had lost confidence in the bureau's director, B. Comey, was a 'slip of the tongue' that was not based o

former Trump appointees who have spoken critically, to varying degrees, about the president after leaving his employ. This includes, among others, John Bolton, Rex Tillerson, John Kelly, Tom Bossert, Fiona Hill and Gary Cohn. -- Spencer took the sting out of this punch by vigorously denying well-sourced

orical question. He insisted on an answer, and affirmative one: “Mr. President, you're not a target.” Early in his tenu Trump had pushed FBI director James Comey to provide precisely tl reassurance. In one of the signature moves of his presidency, he had fir Comey in May 2017 in part because he wasn't satisfie

n his tenu Trump had pushed FBI director James Comey to provide precisely tl reassurance. In one of the signature moves of his presidency, he had fir Comey in May 2017 in part because he wasn't satisfied with the enth siasm of the affirmation and therefore assumed Comey was plotti against him. Whether t

raft choices during the presidential transition—in central posts in the Trump administration. Mike Pompeo had recently been named secretary of state, John Bolton would soon become the national security advisor, and Larry Kudlow had been appointed director of the National Economic Council. The president's chief