Epstein Secrets

n the Eastern District of Texas in the George W. Bush administration. He also served as the mayor of H

y in the Eastern District of Texas in the George W. Bush administration. He also served as the mayor

ffe "has no background in intelligence, though he did serve as a terrorism prosecutor and the U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Texas in the George W. Bush administration. He also served as the mayor of Heath, Tex., a town of about 9,000 outside Dallas. ... Trump has repeatedly blasted the intelligenc

hen did not push back." Cohen also told the FBI that he spoke with Trump's attorney Jay Sekulow about pardons after his home and office were raided. Sekulow told the AP that Cohen's statements were false. 2. Former Trump deputy campaign chairman Rick Gates told the FBI that, if Rudy Giuliani had been t

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

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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