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

press sensation—or question mark—his credentials suddenly included a convoluted story about how Bannon & Co. had acquired a stake in the megahit show Seinfeld and hence its twenty-year run of residual profits. But none of the Seinfeld principals, creators, or producers seem ever to have heard of him. Mike

issues like abortion and the free contraception they bicker so much about. On 7he Daily Show, Jon Stewart aimed his arrow at presidential candidate Donald Trump (who bought 20,000 copies of 7he Art of the Deal, making it a bestseller). Stewart shouts, “There are probably some non-rapists caught up in that tid

up in that tide, whether they’ re unable to rape for medical reasons, or whether they’ re just all raped-out.” A clip shows HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015411 Trump reading out loud from a report that “80% of Central American women and girls are raped crossing into the United Sates.” CNN’ s Don Lemon tells Trump,

Stewart aimed his arrow at presidential candidate Donald Trump (who bought 20,000 copies of 7he Art of the

e was a loss to me, and to this country, and around the world, but his powerful inspiration remains. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015397 The Missing Episode of Seinfeld [erry Seinfeld is onstage at a comedy club] Jerry: Did God look down at Adam and Eve one day and say, “Oops, | forgot something. Let there be erect

veillance issues; firing Cheney's dearest friend, Donald Rumsfeld, from his Pentagon job; letting Secreta

iminating in our wish to keep our community a closed community." A half-century later little had changed. The comedian Michael Richards (Kramer on "Seinfeld") once yelled at a black heckler from the stage: "He's a ni He's a nigger! He's a nigger!" Confronted about this, Richards apologized and then sai