Epstein Secrets

ew Hiltzik, who ran a small New York-based PR firm and was noted for his ability to work with high- maintenance clients, including the movie producer Harvey Weinstein (later pilloried for years of sexual harassment and abuse—accusations that Hiltzik and his staff had long helped protect him from) and the television

ance clients, including the movie producer Harvey Weinstein (later pilloried for years of sexual harassment a

maintenance clients, including the movie producer Harvey Weinstein (later pilloried for years of sexual ha

Israel label was deeply confounding to Kushner, who had been raised as an Orthodox Jew. His closest lieutenants in the White House, Avi Berkowitz and Josh Raffel, were Orthodox Jews. On Friday afternoons, all Kushner business in the White House stopped before sunset for the Sabbath observance. For Kushner, Ba

resented Ivanka’s clothing line. Hope Hicks, who had also worked for the Hiltzik firm—perhaps b. known for having long represented the film producer Harvey Weinste caught, in the fall of 2017, in an epochal harassment and abuse scanc and cover-up—had originally had the same role as Raffel but at a higt level: sh

own for having long represented the film producer Harvey Weinste caught, in the fall of 2017, in an epocha

real cloud. On February 27, a reporter at the Washington insider newsletter Axi Jonathan Swan, a favorite conduit for White House leaks, reported tl Josh Raffel was leaving the White House. In a novel arrangement, Rai had come into the White House in April 2017 as the exclusive spokespers for the president's

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. “Now I’m glad to be out of the loop.” Included in the discussion on the plane were the president, Hicks, Jared and Ivanka, and their spokesperson, Josh Raffel. Ivanka, according to the later recollection of her team, would shortly leave the meeting, take a pill, and go to sleep. Jared, in the telling of his