Epstein Secrets

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

s, Hope Hicks, Corey Lewandowski, and Jared Kushner, went in and out of the room. Conversations with members of the campaign’s team continued through the Republican Convention in Cleveland, when it was still hardly possible to conceive of Trump’s election. They moved on to Trump Tower with a voluble Steve Bannon—before the

ng on the political fallout: Ronald Reagan and Edward Kennedy offered sympathy to the families of the dead troopers and called for "national unity" Bush was most outspoken, saying, "I unequivocally support the president — no ifs, ands or buts. . . . He made a difficult, courageous decision."A few hou

e wars in either Afghanistan or Iraq when George W. was President. And again to Republican's question

look like? Last October, upon the release of his foreign policy white paper, "An American Century," it looked much like Obama's, but by the end of the Republican Convention in Tampa eleven months later it is 180 degrees different with the only consistent thread is that the President is either wrong or weak. As James Joy

rgest ever... Something is wrong with this picture and I am not sure that I have the answers either, but I do know that doubling down on the failed Bush/Cheney policies will only make things worse, as they did during the eight years under their Administration." To my pleasant surprise and liking, th

s Although I spent much of last weekend's reading castigating the disinformation, exaggerations and lies that was in liberal use by the speakers at the Republican Convention in Tampa to the point that the entire event should have received four Pinocchios — the sheer audacity caused me to start this weekend's Politics sec