Epstein Secrets

ce a scowl and pout if you didn’t hurry to the “but.” (Then again, saying anyone was “smart” invariably incurred Trump’s annoyance.) Kushner enlisted Scarborough and Brzezinski in something of a regular morning television Bannon slag-a-thon. H. R. McMaster, the three-star general who had replaced Michael Flyn

h in the West Wing, the campaign by Jared and Ivanka to undermine Bannon seemed to be working. The couple had created a feedback loop, which included Scarborough and Murdoch, that reinforced the president’s deep annoyance with and frustration about Bannon’s purported importance in the White House. For weeks af

ding to Walsh.) At three-thirty, Ryan called the president to say he was short fifteen to twenty votes and needed to pull the vote. Bannon, backed by Mulvaney, who had become the White House’s Hill operative, continued to urge an immediate vote. A defeat here would be a major defeat for the Republican leade

had to work through significantly more complicated contortions of personal and career justification. Often they wore their qualms on their sleeves. Mick Mulvaney, the OMB director, made a point of stressing the fact that he worked in the Executive Office Building, not the West Wing. Michael Anton, holding down

d Brzezinski, helping them keep their jobs), owed him something, and the media, giving him vast amounts of free coverage, believed he owed them, with Scarborough and Brzezinski seeing themselves as something like semiofficial advisers, if not the political fixers who had put him in his job. In August, they ha

e immigration order was issued, Joe Scarborough and his cohost () on the MSNBC show Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski, came for lunch at the White House. Scarborough is a former Republican congressman from Pensacola, Florida, and Brzezinski is the daughter of Zbigniew Brzezinski, a high-ranking aide in the Johnson

-bore for him. “The first couple of times when I went to the White House, someone had to say, This is Mick Mulvaney, he’s the budget director,” said Mulvaney. And in Mulvaney’s telling Trump was too scattershot to ever be of much help, tending to interrupt planning with random questions that seem to have c

by Bannon. He made several attempts to comb through his father-in-law’s words on his own before expressing frustration with the task and giving up. Mick Mulvaney, the former South Carolina congressman now head of the Office of Management and Budget and directly charged with creating the Trump budget that would

g to support claims by Trump and his allies that the FBI investigation of Trump was politically motivated and corrupt." The Washington Times (7/23, Scarborough, 492K) reports a Republican congressional source said, "Every part of this FBI investigation stunk to high heaven, and it turns out even the EFTA00

s, social-media platforms and additional forms of open-source data. EFTA00149939 Sources for Bulletin Intelligence audience-size estimates include Scarborough, GfK MRI, comScore, Nielsen, and the Audit Bureau of Circulation. Data from and access to third party social media platforms, including but not lim

, were sent late last year" to Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Charles Grassley (R-IA), Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), and then-White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney. Adds Politico, "The packets, the sources said, were sent by Andrii Derkach, a Ukrainian lawmaker who met with Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giulian

radio broadcasts, social-media platforms and additional forms of open-source data. Sources for Bulletin Intelligence audience-size estimates include Scarborough, GfK MRI, comScore, Nielsen, and the Audit Bureau of Circulation. Data from and access to third party social media platforms, including but not lim

ndition that the bureau keep his identity secret to protect himself, his sources, family, and friends in Russia safe." The Washington Times (7/26, Scarborough, 492K) reports that the "shadowy figure who funneled information" to Steele for the dossier "is Igor Danchenko, a Ukraine-born, Russian- educated re

Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act." Also reporting are Lincoln (RI) Valley Breeze (7/25, 92K) and Providence (RI) Journal (7/25, Mulvaney, 259K). EFTA00150493 Virginia Men Arrested Following Escape From Juvenile Correctional Center. The Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch (7/25, 277K) repo

radio broadcasts, social-media platforms and additional forms of open-source data. Sources for Bulletin Intelligence audience-size estimates include Scarborough, GfK MRI, comScore, Nielsen, and the Audit Bureau of Circulation. Data from and access to third party social media platforms, including but not lim

he bureau keep his identity secret to protect himself, his sources, family, and friends in Russia safe." EFTA01658170 The Washington Times (7/26, Scarborough, 492K) reports that the "shadowy figure who funneled information" to Steele for the dossier "is Igor Danchenko, a Ukraine-born, Russian- educated re

e Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act." Also reporting are Lincoln (RI) Valley Breeze (7/25, 92K) and Providence (RI) Journal (7/25, Mulvaney, 259K). Virginia Men Arrested Following Escape From Juvenile Correctional Center. The Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch (7/25, 277K) reported Jabar A. T

ed and corrupt." The Washington Times <https://www.washingtontimes.corn/news/2020/juU23/fbi-disguised-intentions-donald-trump- briefing-dec/> (7/23, Scarborough, 492K) reports a Republican congressional source said, "Every part of this FBI investigation stunk to high heaven, and it turns out even the defensi

, were sent late last year" to Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Charles Grassley (R-IA), Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), and then-White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney. Adds Politico, "The packets, the sources said, were sent by Andrii Derkach, a Ukrainian lawmaker who met with Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giulian

friends in Russia safe." The Washington Times <https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jul/26/igor-danchenko-outed-steele- dossier-source> (7/26, Scarborough, 492K) reports that the "shadowy figure who funneled information" to Steele for the dossier "is Igor Danchenko, a Ukraine-born, Russian-educated res

Journal EFTA00136132 <https://wwvv.providencejoumal.com/news/20200725/ri-task-force-fugitive-arrested-in-georgia-on-federal-fraud- charges> (7/25, Mulvaney, 259K). Virginia Men Arrested Following Escape From Juvenile Correctional Center. The Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch <https://richmond.corn/news/loca

radio broadcasts, social-media platforms and additional forms of open-source data. Sources for Bulletin Intelligence audience-size estimates include Scarborough, GfK MRI, comScore, Nielsen, and the Audit Bureau of Circulation. Data from and access to third party social media platforms, including but not lim

tests and delays in the results 'inexcusable' in the seventh month of the pandemic, splitting from his former boss' repeated boasts about testing." Mulvaney told CNBC, "I know it isn't popular to talk about in some Republican circles, but we still have a testing problem in this country. ... That is simp

g to support claims by Trump and his allies that the FBI investigation of Trump was politically motivated and corrupt." The Washington Times (7/23, Scarborough, 492K) reports a Republican congressional source said, "Every part of this FBI investigation stunk to high heaven, and it turns out even the defens

, were sent late last year" to Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Charles Grassley (R-IA), Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), and then-White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney. Adds Politico, "The packets, the sources said, were sent by Andrii Derkach, a Ukrainian lawmaker who met with Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giulian

ow), 89, 91, 93, 208, 276 Saudi Arabia, 6, 224-32, 236 Saval, Nikil, 276 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020134 Scaramucci, Anthony, 268-74, 277, 281-86, 288, 307 Scarborough, Joe, 32, 47, 66-69, 81, 121, 147, 176, 247-49 Scavino, Dan, 229 Schiller, Keith, 217, 229 Schlapp, Matt, 127, 129, 131-33 Schlapp, Mercedes, 129

of discussion almost from day one. Among the string of HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020099 candidates were Powell and Cohn, the Jarvanka favorites; OMB director Mick Mulvaney, one of the Bannon picks; and Kelly. In fact, Kelly—who would soon abjectly apologize to Priebus for the basic lack of courtesy in the way his dismi