Epstein Secrets

as “an argumenta- tive, perpetually homy middle-aged map.” : But Weiner’s Goyaesque grotesquerie eams him another name: the “Rosemary’s Baby” of the Clintons. Bill nd Hillary Clinton transf ormed the way we look at sex scandals. They plowed through the: ridicule, refused to slink away in'shame like Gary H

menta- tive, perpetually homy middle-aged map.” : But Weiner’s Goyaesque grotesquerie eams him another name: the “Rosemary’s Baby” of the Clintons. Bill nd Hillary Clinton transf ormed the way we look at sex scandals. They plowed through the: ridicule, refused to slink away in'shame like Gary Hart, said it was old news,

hame like Gary Hart, said it was old news, and argued that if Hillary "didn’t object, why should voters? Poppy Bush thought Amerigans would reject Bill Clinton ii 1992 because of his lascivious ways, but he learned that vot- efs are more concerned with how their ‘<own lives will be changed than they are w

s to pick her up when she came back from trips with Hillary. “They were two hyperdrive young brains that just clicked,” said a friend. “She liked his Borscht Belt humor.” Her circle understands that “you love who you love,” as one put it, marveling at Weiner’s “madonna-whore” com- plex played out online. But t

ooks products and media. His partner in this enterprise was David Bossie, the far-right pamphleteer and congressional committee investigator into the Clintons’ Whitewater affair, who would join him as deputy campaign manager on the Trump campaign. Bannon met Breitbart News founder Andrew Breitbart at a scre

he simply had no scruples. He was a rebel, a disruptor, and, living outside the rules, contemptuous of them. A close Trump friend who was also a good Bill Clinton friend found them eerily similar—except that Clinton had a respectable front and Trump did not. One manifestation of this outlaw personality, for bo

blow-hard, a rambling, disjointed, digressive, what-me-worry approach that combined aspects of cable television rage, big-tent religious revivalism, Borscht Belt tummler, motivational speaking, and YouTube vlogging. Charisma in American politics had come to define an order of charm, wit, and style—a coolness.

as Monica Lewinsky and Ken Starr were to the Clinton White House, and he saw the model for escaping a mortal fate in the Clinton response. “What the Clintons did was to go to the mattresses with amazing discipline,” he explained. “They set up an outside shop and then Bill and Hillary never mentioned it aga

ven weeks in office, Trump saw his own predicament as unique and overwhelming. Like no other president before (though he did make some allowances for Bill Clinton), his enemies were out to get him. Worse, the system was rigged against him. The bureaucratic swamp, the intelligence agencies, the unfair courts, th

om the actual Trump’s constant briefs against him. The president had assembled a wide jury to weigh Bannon’s fate, putting before it, in an insulting Borscht Belt style, a long list of Bannon’s annoyances: “Guy looks homeless. Take a shower, Steve. You’ve worn those pants for six days. He says he’s made money,