Epstein Secrets

d everybody’s disbelieving looks, the president seemed HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019905 intent on surrounding himself in the White House with his family. The Trumps, all of them —except for his wife, who, mystifyingly, was staying in New York—were moving in, all of them set to assume responsibilities similar to t

me when it had borders. When America was great. Trump had become the platform for that message. By that January evening, Bannon had been immersed in Donald Trump’s world for almost five months. And though he had accumulated a sizable catalogue of Trump’s peculiarities, and cause enough for possible alarm about t

ked Trump’s impact and his shamelessness. “He just keeps going,” Ailes had marveled to a friend after the first debate with Hillary Clinton. “You hit Donald along the head, and he keeps going. He doesn’t even know he’s been hit.” But Ailes was convinced that Trump had no political beliefs or backbone. Th

rtly after eight o’clock that evening, when the unexpected trend—Trump might actually win—seemed confirmed, Don Jr. told a friend that his father, or DJT, as he called him, looked as if he had seen a ghost. Melania, to whom Donald Trump had made his solemn guarantee, was in tears—and not of joy. There

ncies and personnel responsible for enforcing it, President Trump—with Bannon’s low, intense voice behind him, offe

streamed on a laptop in the transition offices. “Mr. Trump said he’s never once listened to a whole Obama sp

lism, of people knowing too much who were defeated by all the complexities and conflicting interests before they began. Trump, knowing little, might, Trumpers tried to believe, give a kooky new hope to the system. Jared Kushner in quite a short period of time—trather less than a year—had crossed over from

, namely that these kinds of events—Trump sitting down with serious-minded people and looking for solutions to the nation’s problems—were the soul of Trump’s White House and the media was giving them scant coverage. Hosting business advisory councils was a Kushner strategy. It was an enlightened business

g as much policy as possible to Capitol Hill. In the early weeks of the administration, Priebus arranged for House Speaker Paul Ryan, however much a Trumpist béte noire for much of the campaign, to come into the White House with a group of ranking committee chairmen. In the meeting, the president blithely

d later resign)—-were not from media or tech companies, with their liberal bent, but from old-line, when-America-was-great enterprises. They included Mary Barra, the CEO of General Motors; Ginni Rometty of IBM; Jack Welch, the former CEO of GE; Jim McNerney, the former CEO of Boeing; and Indra Nooyi of PepsiC

top Republican Steve Scalise saying she needs to be removed as third-ranking GOP leader. ... At issue: Cheney's fierce criticism of former President Trump, arguing he should not be a part of the GOP's future after the Capitol attack and his false claims of election fraud. ... President Biden weigh[ed]

w.nytimes.com/2021/05/05/opinion/trump-facebook- oversight-board.html> (5/5, 20.6M) that Facebook's Oversight Board "avoid[ed] a clear decision about Donald Trump's heinous online behavior." The panel "decided to punt the fetid Trump situation back to the Facebook leadership." Swisher says Facebook "has offloade

has continued to clearly state her positions on Donald Trump's baseless claims that the 2020 election wa

.. At issue: Cheney's fierce criticism of former President Trump, arguing he should not be a part of the GOP's fut

Congress, but she has emerged recently as one of Mr. Trump's most vociferous defenders, willing to indulge a

icago.suntimes.com/2021/5/5/22420911/facebook-ban-donald-trump- editorial> (5/5, 970K) editorializes that the de

suggested, there is good reason to believe that Trump's language can provoke violence again." Cheney argu

/www.freep.com/story/money/cars/general-motors/2021/05/05/gm- eamings-first-quarter/4928832001/> (5/5, LaReau, 2.16M) calls "an unusual move," GM CEO Mary Barra "issued a Letter to Shareholders simultaneously with GM's first-quarter earnings results Wednesday." In the letter, "Barra said GM expects to have

op Republican Steve Scalise saying she needs to be removed as third-ranking GOP leader. ... At issue: Cheney's fierce criticism of former President Trump, arguing he should not be a part of the GOP's future after the Capitol attack and his false claims of election fraud. ... President Biden weigh[ed]

to her job as House GOP conference chair. ... To the frustration of many fellow Republicans, Cheney has continued to clearly state her positions on Donald Trump's baseless daims that the 2020 election was fraudulent and on the Jan. 6 vote to certify Trump's loss." Cheney "has been telling people that if holdi

has continued to clearly state her positions on Donald Trump's baseless daims that the 2020 election wa

.. At issue: Cheney's fierce criticism of former President Trump, arguing he should not be a part of the GOP's fu

Congress, but she has emerged recently as one of Mr. Trump's most vociferous defenders, willing to indulge a

suggested, there is good reason to believe that Trump's language can provoke violence again." Cheney argu

rs, according to the company." GM Reports $3.3B Q1 Net Profit. In what the Detroit Free Press (5/5, LaReau, 2.16M) calls "an unusual move," GM CEO Mary Barra "issued a Letter to Shareholders simultaneously with GM's first-quarter earnings results Wednesday." In the letter, "Barra said GM expects to have