Epstein Secrets

conjecture, speculation, or solid stuff. But, as it churned and festered in the president’s mind, Kushner and Bannon went out to CIA headquarters in Langley to meet with Mike Pompeo and his deputy director Gina Haspel to check it out. A few days later, the CIA opaquely reported back that the information w

ding to Walsh.) At three-thirty, Ryan called the president to say he was short fifteen to twenty votes and needed to pull the vote. Bannon, backed by Mulvaney, who had become the White House’s Hill operative, continued to urge an immediate vote. A defeat here would be a major defeat for the Republican leade

had to work through significantly more complicated contortions of personal and career justification. Often they wore their qualms on their sleeves. Mick Mulvaney, the OMB director, made a point of stressing the fact that he worked in the Executive Office Building, not the West Wing. Michael Anton, holding down

s to make nice with the CIA. On Saturday, January 21, in an event organized by Kushner, the president, in his first presidential act, paid a call on Langley to, in Bannon’s hopeful description, “play some politics.” In carefully prepared remarks in his first act as president, he would lay some of the famo

-bore for him. “The first couple of times when I went to the White House, someone had to say, This is Mick Mulvaney, he’s the budget director,” said Mulvaney. And in Mulvaney’s telling Trump was too scattershot to ever be of much help, tending to interrupt planning with random questions that seem to have c

by Bannon. He made several attempts to comb through his father-in-law’s words on his own before expressing frustration with the task and giving up. Mick Mulvaney, the former South Carolina congressman now head of the Office of Management and Budget and directly charged with creating the Trump budget that would

Susan Pompeo, Secretary of State Pompeo's wife, who it says has "wield[ed] her unofficial authority in ways that have carried through from the CIA's Langley, Va., headquarters all the way to Foggy Bottom — with fastidious attention to detail, demanding standards and a head-turning level of engagement fo

, were sent late last year" to Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Charles Grassley (R-IA), Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), and then-White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney. Adds Politico, "The packets, the sources said, were sent by Andrii Derkach, a Ukrainian lawmaker who met with Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giulian

usan Pompeo, Secretary of State Pompeo's wife, who it says has "wield[ed) her unofficial authority in ways that have carried through from the CIA's Langley, Va., headquarters all the way to Foggy Bottom - with fastidious attention to detail, demanding standards and a head-turning level of engagement for

, were sent late last year" to Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Charles Grassley (R-IA), Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), and then-White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney. Adds Politico, "The packets, the sources said, were sent by Andrii Derkach, a Ukrainian lawmaker who met with Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giulian

usan Pompeo, Secretary of State Pompeo's wife, who it says has "wield[ed) her unofficial authority in ways that have carried through from the CIA's Langley, Va., headquarters all the way to Foggy Bottom - with fastidious attention to detail, demanding standards and a head-turning level of engagement for

, were sent late last year" to Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Charles Grassley (R-IA), Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), and then-White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney. Adds Politico, "The packets, the sources said, were sent by Andrii Derkach, a Ukrainian lawmaker who met with Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giulian