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dent tweeted, "New documents just released reveal General Flynn was telling the truth, and the FBI knew it! @OAN

ies of tweets defending his commutation of the 40- month prison sentence of Roger Stone, expressing his support for former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, and calling for the prosecution of Russia dossier author Christopher Steele. However, coverage of the President's remarks were overshadowed by form

ent on his Twitter feed. He also tweeted. "2016? HERE WE GO AGAIN!" In addition, the President tweeted, "New documents just released reveal General Flynn was telling the truth, and the FBI knew it! @OANN." He also tweeted, "This man should be extradited, tried, and thrown into jail. A sick lier who

e Facto Spokesman On Criminal Justice." The New York Times (7/12, Rogers, 18.61M) profiles Ja'Ron Smith, "the highest-ranking Black official in the Trump White House, a deputy assistant to a president who has threatened protesters calling for police reform and racial justice" after the death of George Floyd. Smit

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.”

ce at least Watergate. As the day approached, I set out to tell this story in as contemporaneous a fashion as possible, and to try to see life in the Trump White House through the eyes of the people closest to it. This was originally conceived as an account of the Trump administration’s first hundred days, that mos

AUTHOR'S NOTE XI 1. BULLSEYE 1 2. THE DO-OVER 21 3. LAWYERS 38 4. HOME ALONE 50 5. ROBERT MUELLER 6o 6. MICHAEL COHEN 75 7. THE WOMEN 88 8. MICHAEL FLYNN 99 9. MIDTERMS 113 10. KUSHNER 125 11. HANNITY 1 43 12. TRUMP ABROAD 156 13. TRUMP AND PUTIN 169 EFTA00316513 x CONTENTS 14.100 DAYS 185 1

6. MICHAEL COHEN 75 7. THE WOMEN 88 8. MICHAEL FLYNN 99 9. MIDTERMS 113 10. KUSHNER 125 11. HANNITY

narrative I provide is based on internal documents given to me by sources close to the Office of the Special Counsel. Dealing with sources in the Trump White House has continued to offer its own set of unique issues. A basic requirement of working there is, surely, the willingness to infinitely rationalize or

said, "So, we caught President Obama and Biden spying on the campaign. Biden was even saying using the Logan Act which is exactly what they used on Flynn. ... I caught them and we caught them spying, using the intelligence apparatus of our country to spy on an opponent or the opposing party's campaig

in's plans to interfere in the 2016 presidential election." The Times says Yates "will be in a tight spot...forced to square her 2017 testimony that Michael Flynn could be blackmailed by Russia with new revelations that the probe was an FBI setup targeting the Trump White House." SSCI Approves Final Russia Re

ed to square her 2017 testimony that Michael Flynn could be blackmailed by Russia with new revelations that the probe was an FBI setup targeting the Trump White House." SSCI Approves Final Russia Report. The Hill (8/4, Miller, 2.98M) reports the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday "voted to adopt its fifth

0 to ..help pro-Russian politician Viktor Yanukovych win the Ukrainian presidency Other Trump associates, including former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and political consultant Roger Stone, were connected to Russian officials. 81[559) Russian agents were overheard during the campaign saying they co

tant Roger Stone, were connected to Russian officials. 81[559) Russian agents were overheard during the campaign saying they could use Manafort and Flynn to influence Trump.156°) Members of Trump's campaign and later his White House staff, particular l Flynn, were in contact with Russian officials bo

ia in the U.S., expressing concern that a normalization process by reporters and media results in an inaccurate characterization of Trump [7281 The Trump White House held about a hundred formal press briefings in 2017, declining by half during 2018 and to two in 2019.17271 Trump also deployed the legal system to

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

reitbart as practicing an outré conservatism. For several years Breitbart had staged a nearby competitive conference dubbed “The Uninvited.” But the Trump White House would dominate or even subsume the conference this year, and everybody wanted to turn out for this sweet moment. The president, set to speak on the s

sident and CEO Carlos Aguilar; Amtrak CEO William Flynn; Virgin Hyperloop CEO and co-founder Josh Giegel

dministration's zero tolerance policy" are now being "reunited under President Biden." ABC's Cecilia Vega added, "The Biden Administration says the Trump White House left them with little to know information about many of the families. There are still more than 400 children whose parents have yet to be located."

ident and CEO Carlos Aguilar; Amtrak CEO William Flynn; Virgin Hyperloop CEO and co-founder Josh Giegel;

Administration's zero tolerance policy" are now being "reunited under President Biden." ABC's Cecilia Vega added, "The Biden Administration says the Trump White House left them with EFTA00135933 little to know information about many of the families. There are still more than 400 children whose parents have yet

obstruction of justice for firing James Comey as FBI director or for requesting that he, as Comey has said, "can see your way clear . . . to letting Flynn go." They argue that the president's executive authority includes the ability to appoint and remove executive branch officers, and a president is wi

esidential campaign with senior Russian officials," was "regarded as a critical interlocutor, first to the Trump campaign and later to the incoming Trump White House." Papadopoulos "received access to officials at the highest levels of the Greek government, many of whom shared links to Russia and sympathies that

Contents AUTHOR’S NOTE XI 1. BULLSEYE 1 2. THE DO-OVER 21 3. LAWYERS 38 4. HOME ALONE 50 5. ROBERT MUELLER 60 6. MICHAEL COHEN 75 7. THE WOMEN 88 8. MICHAEL FLYNN 99 9. MIDTERMS 113 10. KUSHNER 125 11. HANNITY 143 12. TRUMP ABROAD 156 13. TRUMP AND PUTIN 169 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021121 --- PAGE BREAK --- CONTENT

60 6. MICHAEL COHEN 75 7. THE WOMEN 88 8. MICHAEL FLYNN 99 9. MIDTERMS 113 10. KUSHNER 125 11. HANNITY 14

blunt unequivocal: talk to no one, lest it become necessary to testify about 1 you said. Before long, a constant preoccupation of senior staffers in Trump White House was to know as little as possible. It was a wre side-up world: where being “in the room” was traditionally the r sought-after status, now you wanted