Epstein Secrets

torture, the surprising liberalism of generals, and the stupidity of the civilian-military bureaucracy. Then it was on to the looming appointment of Michael Flynn—a favorite Trump general who’d been the opening act at many Trump rallies—as the National Security Advisor. “He’s fine. He’s not Jim Mattis and he’s

r. Bolton was an Ailes favorite, too. “He’s a bomb thrower,” said Ailes. “And a strange little fucker. But you need him. Who else is good on Israel? Flynn is a little nutty on Iran. Tillerson”—the secretary of state designate—“just knows oil.” HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019885 “Bolton’s mustache is a problem,” s

the National Security Advisor. “Yes,” she said, “General Flynn does enjoy the full confidence of the president.”

ngress, that had pushed the EO envelope. Now, in something of a zero-sum game, Trump’s EOs would undo Obama’s EOs. During the transition, Bannon and Stephen Miller, a former Sessions aide who had earlier joined the Trump campaign and then become Bannon’s effective assistant and researcher, assembled a list of mo

Reciting Oath Of Office Using QAnon Slogan. The Washington Examiner (7/5, Dunleavy, 448K) reports that on July 4, former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn shared a video on Twitter "of himself leading five other people in a recitation of the oath of office traditionally given to federal elected office

ice traditionally given to federal elected office holders, ending the oath with a slogan associated with the QAnon conspiracy theory." In the video, Flynn, reads "the oath of office off of a cellphone as three women and two men, some of whom were members of his family, repeated after him in front of a

nologues over the past six weeks provide "the rhetorical roots of Trump's Independence Day speech at Mount Rushmore." To Swan, Trump's speechwriter Stephen Miller "framed the president's opposition to the Black Lives Matter protest movement using the same imagery Carlson has been laying out night after night o

eillance warrants were riddled with errors to the discovery that the FBI briefly intended to drop its case against former national security adviser Michael Flynn." Graham said over the weekend he would grant a request from Democrats for Mueller testify. His statement "came after Mueller wrote a Washington Pos

against former national security adviser Michael Flynn." Graham said over the weekend he would grant a r

t have to do it for the good of the country." Millen If Unchecked, Defund Efforts Will "Come To Every City In America." White House senior adviser Stephen Miller said on the John Fredericks ShowY (7/14) that "left unchecked, not fought," efforts to defund police "will come to every city in America and it's b

l Declared Terrorists. COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE • Graham Wants To Declassify Document Related To Steele Dossier. • Trump Says He Would Consider Giving Flynn )ob At White House. • Schiff Worried "More Serious Abuse" Of Law Enforcement Is Looming With Durham Probe. • Pompeo "Confident" Foreign Countries W

ohen, 4.29M) reports that in an interview with Catherine Herridge of CBS News on Tuesday, President Trump "said...that he would welcome retired Gen. Michael Flynn back into his administration now that the former national security adviser's legal troubles are on the verge of receding." Trump is quoted as sayin

When asked "about what threshold must be met before federal action is taken," the President said, "carnage and death." White House senior adviser Stephen Miller said on KDKA-AMVi Pittsburgh (7/15), "You're witnessing an open attack by the American left on the institution of law enforcement in this country a

viral, and the president's son sent a tweet taunting him about it: EFTA00044795 Trump golfed in New Jersey: And former national security adviser Michael Flynn was spotted wearing a custom shirt: QUOTE OF THE DAY: "If that's the decision of the British government, we will support it enthusiastically, and

ey: And former national security adviser Michael Flynn was spotted wearing a custom shirt: QUOTE OF TH

ump's claim that he supports legal immigration turns out to be a lie," Eugene Robinson writes in his column: "Long advocated by White House adviser Stephen Miller, the Torquemada of the immigration inquisition, the new policy is a major step in Trump's crusade to Make America White Again. If it survives court

And, just as basically: The enemy of my enemy is my friend. If Trump had one fixed point of reference in the Middle East, it was—mostly courtesy of Michael Flynn’s tutoring —that Iran was the bad guy. Hence everybody opposed to Iran was a pretty good guy. After the election, MBS had reached out to Kushner. In t

o, for the most part, were skilled in the new army jargon of PowerPoint, data dumps, and McKinsey-like presentations. One of the things that endeared Flynn to the president was that Flynn, quite the conspiracist and drama queen, had a vivid storytelling sense. By the time of the Syrian attack on Khan Sh

refer to as economic nationalism, and that is Wilbur Ross at Commerce, Steve Mnuchin at Treasury, [Robert] Lighthizer at Trade, Peter Navarro, [and] Stephen Miller, who are rethinking how we are going to reconstruct our trade arrangements around the world. The third, broadly, line of work is deconstruction of th

disciplined man in politics. It was clear where Mueller and his team were going, said Bannon: they would trace a money trail through Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Michael Cohen, and Jared Kushner and roll one or all of them on the president. It's Shakespearean, he said, enumerating the bad advice from his fam

and, 169-70, 211-15, 217-18, 232-33, 245-46, 261 CPAC and, 126-34 eve of inauguration and, 4-10 first weeks of presidency and, 52-55, 60-65, 67-70 Flynn and, 95, 103, 106 immigration and, 61-65, 77, 113 inauguration and, 42-43, 148 influence of, 70, 85, 108-10, 188 isolationism of, 227 Israel and

the senior people who had departed. And the stature of those who remained seemed to be more diminutive by the week. Hope Hicks, at twenty-eight, and Stephen Miller, at thirty-two, both of whom had begun as effective interns on the campaign, were now among the seniormost figures in the White House. Hicks had assu

festival in Gilroy, Calif. Allyson Chiu, Meagan Flynn and Faiz Siddiqui report: "One gunman was killed

act" with "any foreign entity," including the Russians. She told the FBI that she recalled talking about this with fellow advisers Kellyanne Conway, Stephen Miller, Jason Miller and "probably" Kushner. "Hicks told the group she was planning to respond to the press and there was no hesitation or pushback from a