Epstein Secrets

curious Trump subtext. Trump’s brutish father was an often vocal anti-Semite. In the split in New York real estate between the Jews and non-Jews, the Trumps were clearly on the lesser side. The Jews were white shoe, and Donald Trump, even more than his father, was perceived as a vulgarian—after all, he pu

resident. Pence started nearly every speech saying, “I bring greetings from our forty-fifth HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019977 president of the United States, Donald J. Trump ...”—a salutation directed more to the president than to the audience. Pence cast himself as blandly uninteresting, sometimes barely seeming to exis

had a meaningful discussion in his life about health insurance. “No one in the country, or on earth, has given less thought to health insurance than Donald,” said Roger Ailes. Pressed in a campaign interview about the importance of Obamacare repeal and reform, Trump was, to say the least, quite unsure of

en a new sort of centrism, as inimical to Bannonism as it was possible to conceive, could emerge. Bannon’s pronouncements about a fifty-year rule for Trumpism might then be supplanted by the rule of Jared, Ivanka, and Goldman Sachs. By the end of March, this was the side that was winning. Bannon’s efforts

House had now all but been united under the president’s family. His son-in-law and daughter hoped—they were even confident—that they could speak to DJT’s better self, or at least balance Republican needs with progressive rationality, compassion, and good works. Further, they could support this modera

together, and what this election shows, and what President Trump showed, and let’s not kid ourselves, I can talk a

tacts with Trump associates. The story went on: Mr. Trump has denied that his campaign had any contact with

OVERSIGHT_019977 president of the United States, Donald J. Trump ...”—a salutation directed more to the pres

l people without clearly monetizable reputations before their association with Trump—were, for better or worse, hitched to him. (Even among dedicated Trumpers there was always a certain amount of holding their breath and constant reexamination of their options.) But those within the larger circle of White H

lable Republican rectitude, Ryan was the official last, best hope of the Republican Party. (Bannon, typically, had turned this trope into an official Trumpist talking point: “Ryan was created in a petri dish at the Heritage Foundation.”’) If the Republican Party had been moved further right by the Tea Party

ture of goodwill and a public display of unity—a sign of a budding alliance against Kushner. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019979 In nearby Alexandria, Virginia, Richard Spencer, the president of the National Policy Institute, which is sometimes described as a “white supremacist think tank,” who had, peskily for the White Hou

virtue. If every new event canceled out every other event, like some wacky news-cycle pyramid scheme, then you always survived another day. OOK Ok Donald Trump’s sons, Don Jr., thirty-nine, and Eric, thirty-three, existed in an enforced infantile relationship to their father, a role that embarrassed them, but

nothing. And yet, OMG!!! There almost was no other story in America—and in much of the world. That was the radical and transformational nature of the Trump presidency: it held everybody’s attention. Inside the White House, the daily brouhaha and world’s fascination was no cause for joy. It was, in the W

nning his company. Of course, quite a good amount of their professional time was spent on the whims, projects, promotions, and general way of life of DJT. One benefit of their father’s run for president was that it kept him away from the office. Still, the campaign’s administration was largely their r

the other hand, he wanted Jarvanka to go. And that became an effective ultimatum. 7 OK Ok At lunch on August 8, in the Clubhouse at Bedminster—amid Trumpish chandeliers, golf trophies, and tournament plaques—the president was flanked by Tom Price, the secretary of health and human services, and his wife,

rlie, 309 Rosen, Hillary, 78 Rosenstein, Rod, 212, 214, 216-21, 279 Ross, Wilbur, 78, 133, 229-30 Roth, Steven, 27, 141 Rove, Karl, 57, 238 Rumsfeld, Donald, 27 Russia, 24, 37-39, 92, 151-56, 160, 190-91, 236-46, 273, 303, 307-8 Bannon on, 6—7, 238-40, 278-83 Comey and, 168-70, 210-20, 242, 244-45 Don Jr.

is would be the lasting conundrum of dealing with President Trump: the “why” of his often baffling behavior. “The

grim. “Does he ever smile?” asked Trump, who had already begun to think that he had somehow been tricked into the hire. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020101 Some Trumpers, particularly those with over-the-transom access to the president, believed that he had been tricked into some form of very-much-not-Trump submission

about whether the president’s situation was bad, but whether it was Twenty-Fifth-Amendment bad. OOK Ok To Bannon, if not to Trump, the linchpin of Trumpism was China. The story of the next generation, he believed, had been written, and it was about war with China. Commercial war, trade war, cultural war,

threatening to “blow” again. Against this background, almost no one paid attention to the announcement by the Trump supporter and American neo-Nazi Richard Spencer that he was organizing a protest at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, over the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee. “Unite the Right,”

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e release of state tax returns to a handful of congressional committees, opening a new avenue for Democrats to get their hands on some of President Donald Trump's closely guarded finances." The new law allows New York's Department of Taxation and Finance "to share returns of top federal, state or local governm

former chief of staff to ex-White House counsel Donald McGahn, "from answering more than 200 questions a

t the wealthy investor's arrest was bad news for President Trump - with one editor even going as far to suggest he

tering $107 million" and "marketed his access to Mr. Trump and his inauguration to prospective government cl

cs Probe. • New Law Allows New York To Hand Over Trump's Tax Returns To Congress. • DO) Seeks To Halt Sui

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the four-star admiral set to become the Navy's top officer on Aug. 1 will instead retire, an extraordinary downfall prompted by what Navy Secretary Richard Spencer called poor judgment regarding a professional relationship." The AP says "the sudden move...may add to the perception of turmoil in the Pentagon's s

ry hard question," Acosta said. "There is a value to a short guilty plea because letting him walk ... would have been absolutely awful." President Trump, of course, is legendary for not apologizing, which he plainly sees as a sign of weakness. "Under my administration," Trump said during his State o

0044366 capacity. And so I think there are some folks that are of a certain age where you can kind of question their capacity," she said. "I think Donald Trump is a perfect example. I don't think he's all there. ... I think Joe Biden, his performance on the stage kind of raised some questions with respect

d of question their capacity," she said. "I think Donald Trump is a perfect example. I don't think he's a

him walk ... would have been absolutely awful." President Trump, of course, is legendary for not apologizing, whi

November in Fort Wayne, Ind. (Michael Conroy/AP) Trump's coterie has followed his example, and the no-apol

Journal's Gordon Lubold and Nancy A. Youssef report: "In recommending a three-star admiral to be the next chief of naval operations, Navy Secretary Richard Spencer is picking a relatively junior officer to lead the service. A major corruption scandal and two ship accidents that killed 17 sailors in 2017 have s

esident. Within hours, the United States was awash in an unprecedented wave of hateful incidents, many of them perpetrated by people claiming to be Trump supporters. Our Republic needs serious repairs. The signs were apparent well before Donald Trump won the election on a platform that included unapol

alled Hate. Inline image 1 On November 8, 2016, Donald Trump was elected president. Within hours, the Un

ot. What Kathy Griffin did in an attempt of mock President Trump was not just stupid but hateful. A study release

A00690384 Various forms of hatred surged during Trump's campaign—especially Islamophobia, anti-Semitism,

lf as a standard-bearer in the fight for civil rights since 1971) filed a lawsuit against [the neo-Nazi website] Daily Stormer, [white supremacist] Richard Spencer was in Auburn, AL, at a college and the University tried to block him for speaking, and the federal judge said that action was unconstitutional — an