Epstein Secrets

f the very few people to receive clemency from Trump, with most being political allies who appealed directly to the White House instead of following Justice Department protocol." However, the Post adds Stone also "stands out as the first whose conviction grew from an investigation that also examined the president's

el Flynn Case. EFTA00150698 The Washington Examiner (7/10, Chaitin, 448K) reported an appeals court "stayed a decision ordering a judge to accept the Justice Department's motion to dismiss its criminal case against retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn." The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit "issued an order on Friday

id he would testify on July 20" only if the panel proceeds with "hearings for Trump administration nominees for the ambassadors to Ukraine and Peru, the State Department legal adviser, an undersecretary and an assistant secretary." Bloomberg describes the letter as "an unusual challenge to congressional oversight, p

sta-area men were among ten defendants indicted in federal court on drug and gun charges." According to the Chronicle, "The indictments are part of the U.S. Department of Justice's Project Guardian, an initiative to reduce gun violence and enforce federal firearms laws. Most of the indictments targeted previously convicted fel

d as the most important since the end of Communist rule in 1989, failed to produce a clear winner on Sunday night, with exit polls showing President Andrzej Duda holding a razor-thin lead over the challenger, Rafal Trzaskowski." Duda had 50.4% of the vote in exit polls to 49.6% for Trzaskowski, the mayor of

3.68M) reports Trump has long "claimed that Flynn was the victim of rogue federal agents conducting a politically motivated investigation." A second Justice Department investigation "examining the origins of the Mueller probe is underway but has yielded no known indictments." Trump "said he is letting that investig

world 'should consider themselves on notice' that if they do business with Huawei, 'they are doing business with human-rights abusers:" Pompeo said the State Department would "impose visa restrictions on certain employees of Chinese technology companies like Huawei that provide material support to regimes engaging i

" Poland's Duda Falls Victim To Russian Pranksters Posing As UN Chief. Politico (7/15, Gehrke, 4.29M) reports that newly reelected Polish President Andrzej Duda "fell victim to a pair of Russian pranksters pretending to be the secretary-general of the United Nations, and admitted that Donald Trump hasn't ca

lvaney "to hold back almost $400 million in military aid for Ukraine at least a week before" the phone call. OMB officials "relayed Trump's order to the State Department and the Pentagon during an interagency meeting in mid-July, according to officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal delib

as leverage to push the country to investigate a political rival. ... 'I didn't do it,' Trump told reporters during a meeting with Polish president Andrzej Duda. 'I did not do that at all." The Washington Post (9/23, Gearan, Rucker, Parker, 14.2M) reports, Trump used his meetings with heads of state to flay