Epstein Secrets

ere tinted purple: Obama harshly attacked George W. Bush during the 2008 campaign, but the outgoing

delson, endorsed Trump twice. Now, its editorial page is advising him to admit he lost. (Elahe Izadi) • Ted Olson, the Republican lawyer who argued Bush v. Gore, told a Federalist Society panel that Biden is the president-elect and the election is over. (Law.com) • A Pennsylvania appellate court si

by a desire to get involved with a competitor next year: EFTA00162648 The skies above the White House were tinted purple: Obama harshly attacked George W. Bush during the 2008 campaign, but the outgoing president made sure there was a good transition because he understood that it was in the national intere

d he plans to overturn the executive order. (Stars and Stripes) • The Biden team is reaching out to people who worked for former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis about helping him with the transition and possibly serving in the new administration. (Politico) • Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump are gung-ho abou

cram. (Even in the case of an uninterested George W. Bush, he relied on his father’s cronies to cram f

milton Jordan; Ronald Reagan’s James Baker; George H. W. Bush’s return of James Baker; Bill Clinton’s Leon Panetta, Erskine Bowles, and John Podesta; George W. Bush’s Andrew Card; and Barack Obama’s Rahm Emanuel and Bill Daley. Anyone studying the position would conclude that a stronger chief of staff is better tha

ny of whom he had never met before, for positions whose importance Trump did not particularly understand. Ailes, a veteran of the Nixon, Reagan, and Bush 41 White Houses, was growing worried by the president-elect’s lack of immediate focus on a White House structure that could serve and protect him. He

nt of Michael Flynn—a favorite Trump general who’d been the opening act at many Trump rallies—as the National Security Advisor. “He’s fine. He’s not Jim Mattis and he’s not John Kelly ... but he’s fine. He just needs the right staff around him.” Still, Bannon averred: “When you take out all the never- Trump

an-controlled Senate. In 2002, however, George W. Bush used a recess appointment to subvert the opposit

lican-controlled Senate. In 2002, however, George W. Bush used a recess appointment to subvert the op

Davies THE BIG IDEA: President Trump has soured on hiring generals, whom he stocked his administration with at the beginning. Remember John Kelly, Jim Mattis, Michael Flynn and H.R. McMaster. But the billionaire's fondness has grown for stocking the Cabinet with lobbyists, lawyers and executives from the

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s An online fight against posting of women's nude photos by male groups of Marines and veterans has been fortified by criticism of the practice by Jim Mattis, a cult figure in the corps. LOOKING BACK Things No Reader Should Have to See By DAVID W. DUNLAP Hot type or cold, computerized or not, we have

y. Clinton came very close to firing Louis Freeh, his FBI director, who openly criticized him, but managed to swallow his rage. Top people from the Bush White House, the FBI, and the Justice Department almost came to literal blows at the bedside of the ailing AG John Ashcroft—James Comey himself st

ress wouldn't be able to undo the previous day's vote, and the shutdown was due to commence in mere hours. Mitch McConnell rushed Defense Secretary Jim Mattis into action to tell the president that American soldiers would not be paid the next day if he didn't sign the bill. This was a repeat performance:

gress wouldn't be able to undo the previous day’s vote, and the shutdown was due to commence in mere hours. Mitch McConnell rushed Defense Secretary Jim Mattis into action to tell the president that American soldiers would not be paid the next day if he didn't sign the bill. This was a repeat performance: Ma

bowed to influence—memorialized in a memo or email—might derail a career. In February 2018, Rachel Brand, the associate attorney general, a for- mer Bush lawyer who had been nominated for the number three DOJ job by Obama, resigned to take a job as a Walmart lawyer. If Trump had fired Rosenstein during