Epstein Secrets

ongress or even to persons in the executive branch and then to the press. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019914 One of Kushner’s now-frequent wise-men callers was Henry Kissinger. Kissinger, who had been a front-row witness when the bureaucracy and intelligence community revolted against Richard Nixon, outlined the kinds of mi

o persons in the executive branch and then to the press. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019914 One of Kushner’s now-frequent wise-men callers was Henry Kissinger. Kissinger, who had been a front-row witness when the bureaucracy and intelligence community revolted against Richard Nixon, outlined the kinds of mischief, and

s through their confirmation hearings,” he said of the business-and-military 1950s-type cabinet choices. “Tillerson is two days, Session is two days, Mattis is two days... .” Bannon veered from “Mad Dog” Mattis—the retired four-star general whom Trump had nominated as secretary of defense—to a long riff

g Jewish, saddling him with an impossible hurdle for being Jewish—and, too, defaulting to the stereotyping belief in the negotiating powers of Jews. “Henry Kissinger says Jared is going to be the new Henry Kissinger,” Trump said more than once, rather a combined compliment and slur. Bannon, meanwhile, did not hes

houses—and keep us out of it); Flynn’s anti-Iranism (of all the world’s perfidy and toxicity, there is none like that of the mullahs); and Kushner’s Kissingerism (not so much Kissingerism as, having no point of view himself, a dutiful attempt to follow the ninety-four-year-old’s advice). But the fundamental p

fruit salad they wore, the better. The president was very pleased with the compliments he got for appointing generals who commanded the respect that Mattis and Kelly and McMaster were accorded (pay no attention to Michael Flynn). What the president did not like was /istening to generals, who, for the mos

emical attack, 183-84, 188-93 Kim Jong-un, 293 King, Martin Luther, Jr., 50-51 Kirk, Russell, 127 Kislyak, Sergey, 95, 106, 151, 154-55, 218, 236 Kissinger, Henry, 41, 77, 142, 145, 193, 226-28 Koch brothers, 178 Kudlow, Larry, 143, 207 Ku Klux Klan (KKK), 294-95 Kurtz, Howard, 217 Kushner, Charlie,

approaching the boiling point. Trump had already authorized the Pentagon to deploy the troop resources it believed were needed, but Defense Secretary Mattis refused to act without a specific authorization from the president. Trump would finally have to make the call—unless he could find a way to put it of

Education, Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, Septemb

Work%20-%20Background%20and%20Implications%20for%20US_final _O.pdf. 7 Information from a participant on one trip to China arranged by Jimmy Wong. 8 Mattis, Peter. “Contrasting China and Russia’s Influence Operations.” War on the Rocks. January 2018. https://warontherocks.com/2018/01/contrasting-chinas-r

mics, September 2016. Robert D. Blackwill, Henry issinger and Ashley J. Tellis, “Revising U.S. Grand Strate

Mattis, which suggest a different approach in dealing with Iran.’”’ In a speech in April 2016 at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Mattis said “there is no going back” on the deal “absent a clear and present violation.”’* Second, other signatories to the deal, including Russia and China