Epstein Secrets

. (NBC) TRUMP'S BEHAVIOR TOWARD WOMEN: -- "Behind the scenes the night Trump partied at Mar-a- Lago with Jeffrey Epstein and NFL cheerleaders," by Rosalind S. Helderman and Beth Reinhard: "In November 1992, eager for a comeback, Trump threw a raucous party with NFL cheerleaders at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida

ters. "I think the story is that 187 Republicans voted in favor of Trump and Page 16534 EFTA00046045 four voted against. There is great unity in the Republican Party." -- But it is significant that one of the four Republicans who broke ranks, Will Hurd from Texas, is the House GOP's lone African American. "Ther

. (NBC) TRUMP'S BEHAVIOR TOWARD WOMEN: -- "Behind the scenes the night Trump partied at Mar-a-Lago with Jeffrey Epstein and NFL cheerleaders," by Rosalind S. Helderman and Beth Reinhard: "In November 1992, eager for a comeback, Trump threw a raucous party with NFL cheerleaders at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida

20 years on the bench and was appointed by then-Gov. Rick Perry to the criminal appeals court, told the Austin American-Statesman: "Every day with the Republican Party seemed worse than the day before. Trump speaks about brown people like me as lesser beings. It's cliche to say, but the Republican Party left me."

asked lawmakers to repeat their questions, saying that he could not hear them or that they were speaking too fast," Devlin Barrett, Matt Zapotosky, Rosalind S. Helderman and Karoun Demirjian report. "He also said he was unfamiliar with some of the specifics of the investigation — a surprising admission for a prosecu

d chief executive of Acronym, a politically active nonprofit supporting Democrats." SOCIAL MEDIA SPEED READ: Michigan Rep. Justin Amash, who left the Republican Party on July 4 to become an independent after concluding that Trump committed impeachable offenses, said Volker and Morrison didn't help the GOP's case

was confirmed by Page 17291 EFTA00046802 Iy1 CbSICH -- The Ukraine pressure campaign began as an effort to undermine the Mueller investigation. Rosalind S. Helderman reports: "As 2018 came to a close, the special counsel investigation was bearing down on [Trump.] ... It was in this uncertain moment that [Giulia

d me so. ... As we lie on the bed of nails Trump has made, it's often difficult to see how much the paradigm of acceptable conduct has shifted. For the Republican Party, it's now a question of whether we want to start cleaning up the mess or continue papering over the cracks." -- Trump's base probably will not be e

liani pressed administration officials to dump Trump's nominee for ambassador to Qatar and replace her with someone else in late 2018. Josh Dawsey, Rosalind S. Helderman, Tom Hamburger and Devlin Barrett scoop: "Trump had nominated a career Foreign Service officer to ... a key post in a Middle Eastern country with t

ate, Democrats say using McConnell as a rallying banner can be effective (The Hill). Paul Kane: North Carolina runoff a test of women's standing in the Republican Party. Elsewhere on the political scene ... Kris Kobach, the former Kansas secretary of state, announced Monday that he will run for an open U.S. Senate