Epstein Secrets

rop Resistance To State Dept. Nominees. Bloomberg (7/10, Wadhams, Flatley, 4.73M) reports Secretary of State Pompeo "is refusing to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee unless it holds hearings on five senior State Department nominees, including the administration's new ambassador to Ukraine, in what Democrats call

nt on Saturday issued a series of tweets defending his commutation of the 40- month prison sentence of Roger Stone, expressing his support for former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, and calling for the prosecution of Russia dossier author Christopher Steele. However, coverage of the President's remarks we

Abrams Tells Senators US Will Continue To Recognize Guaid6 As Venezuela's Interim President. The AP (8/4, Smith) reports that om testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Tuesday, the US's special representative to Venezuela, Elliott Abrams, "said...that the Trump Administration will continue recognizing lawmaker Jua

ya, including the use of mercenaries and private military contractors, and said Libyans themselves must rebuild a unified country." In a statement, National Security Adviser O'Brien said President Trump had spoken with several world leaders about Libya in recent weeks, and it was clear there was "no winning side

gton seemed to be holding its breath. On the evening before Trump was sworn in, Bob Corker, the Republican senator from Tennessee and the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, opened his remarks as the featured speaker at a gathering at the Jefferson Hotel with the existential question, “Where are things going?” He paused

s 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 a strange little fucker. But you need him. Who else is good on I