Epstein Secrets

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

lad) reported that Donald Trump is likely to face his third indictment of the year over his role in the Capitol riot on 6 January 2021, according to Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith, who sent him a letter informing him of a grand jury investigation. The article explained that this follows Trump's previ

for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Trump Investigation Puts GOP Rivals on the Spot Over Jan. 6 The Hill (07/27, Samuels) reported that the Justice Department's investigation into former President Trump's actions related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot is causing turmoil amongst his Republican primary competitor

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

has recommended Gowdy for roles such as Supreme Court justice. Scott also expressed the need to dismiss President Joe Biden and Merrick Garland from the Department of Justice. Back to Top COUNTERTERRORISM Judge Orders Release of Three of 'Newburgh Four; Assails FBI's Role in a Post-9/11 Terror Sting The Associated Pres

for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. -frump Investigation Puts GOP Rivals on the Spot Over Jan. 6 The Hill (07/27, Samuels) reported that the Justice Department's investigation into former President Trump's actions related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot is causing turmoil amongst his Republican primary competitors

affel, who, like Kushn was a Democrat, had worked for Hiltzik Strategies, the New York Pub relations firm that represented ivanka's clothing line. Hope Hicks, who had also worked for the Hiltzik firm—perhaps b known for having long represented the film producer Harvey Weinste caught, in the fall of 2017,

White House finally having to back down. Under Obama, Comey, who by then was the FBI director, made a further grab for the FBI's independence from the Justice Department when he unilaterally decided to end and later reopen the Hillary Clinton email investigation—and, by doing so. arguably toss- ing the election to he

=ere's a sampling: "There wa= no communication between the campaign and any foreign entity during the campaign." =E244, Trump campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks in November "The campaign had no cont=ct with Russian officials." — Hicks, also in November<=span> "This i= a nonstory because, to the best of our

ontrary to popular=assumptions, is not unscrupulous contractors. Follow the long trail of waste and you'll=be standing at the doors of the military, the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development. It's their bad decisions, bad purchases =nd bad programs that are consistently to blame. ProPubl

will never get out? During two interviews with FBI agents and members of Bob Mueller's team last year, former White House communications director Hope Hicks recounted the president's reaction to the discovery of damning emails about the meeting his son Donald Trump Jr., son-in-law Jared Kushner and camp

er bloggers, journalists and social media users as foreign agents. The bill is EFTA00046855 an extension of an existing law adopted in response to the U.S. Justice Department's 2017 decision to label the Russian state-funded network RT as a foreign agent. The new law applies to anyone who distributes content produced by me

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

d FBI peril. Many of Trump’s wealthy friends saw themselves as having particular DOJ expertise. In their own careers, they had had enough issues with the Justice Department to prompt them to develop DOJ relationships and sources, and now they were always up on DOJ gossip. Flynn was going to throw him in the soup. Manafor

who was 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 W House communications director. She had witnessed most everyth HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021126 --- PAGE BREAK --- 6 MICHAEL WOLFF She saw what the p

For his part, however, Donald Trump yet seemed to believe that | skills and instincts were at least a match for all the thoroughness a resources of the United States Department of Justice. He even believ their exhaustive approach would work in his favor. “Boring. Confusi for everybody,’ he said, dismissing the reports of the investigat

“textualist” judges. McGahn had long dreamed himself of becoming a federal judge him- self, but given the no-man’-land he occupied between Trump and the Justice Department—not to mention Trump’s sometimes daily attacks or the DOJ’s independence, which McGahn had to accept or condone—he knew his future as a jurist was de