Epstein Secrets

ive to a wide variety of conservative celebrities, including, over the years, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, and various Fox News stars. The year before Obama’s reelection, Trump fell into this category. But he was viewed quite differently four years later. In the winter of 2016, during the still competitiv

. There was video documenting the attack and substantial agreement among intelligence agencies about Assad’s responsibility. The politics were right: Barack Obama failed to act when confronted with a Syrian chemical attack, and now Trump could. The downside was small; it would be a contained response. And it ha

court earlier. ANEW LOW! (4:49 a.m.) How low has President Obama gone to tap my phones during the very sacred elec

campaign, how they portrayed the transition, and now how they are portraying the administration, it’s always wrong. I mean on the very first day that Kellyanne and I started, we reached out to Reince, Sean Spicer, Katie... . It’s the same team, you know, that every day was grinding away at the campaign, the

ident and the soon-to-be-old president at the White House, which took place just before they set off for the swearing-in ceremony, Trump believed the Obamas acted disdainfully—“very arrogant”’—toward him HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019916 and Melania. Instead of wearing a game face, going into the inaugural events,

es Baker; George H. W. Bush’s return of James Baker; Bill Clinton’s Leon Panetta, Erskine Bowles, and John Podesta; George W. Bush’s Andrew Card; and Barack Obama’s Rahm Emanuel and Bill Daley. Anyone studying the position would conclude that a stronger chief of staff is better than a weaker one, and a chief of s

e had reviewed the treatment of all other presidents in the media and there was nothing like this ever, even of Nixon who was treated very unfairly. “Kellyanne, who is very fair, has this all documented. You can look at it.” The point is, he said, that that very day, he had saved $700 million a year in jobs

president enjoyed trash-talking McMaster together. McMaster was a protégé of David Petraeus, the former CENTCOM and Afghanistan commander who became Obama’s CIA director before resigning in a scandal involving a love affair and the mishandling of classified information. Petraeus and now McMaster represe

t anything else particularly to do, became a constant hovering—or even lurking— presence at Trump Tower. Ever unflagging, he interrupted a meeting in Kellyanne Conway’s office in early January just to make sure she knew that her husband’s firm, Wachtell, Lipton, was representing him. Having made that point,

k about speaking to me? HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033316 --- PAGE BREAK --- BW: Well, about six people. Trump: They don't tell me. BW: A senator. I talked to Kellyanne about it two and a half months ago. Trump: 1?1 BW: She came for lunch. Trump: Well, it's too bad. Of course, you and I had a conversation a couple of

: Yeah. Yeah. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033317 --- PAGE BREAK --- BW: I take it very seriously. I've done books on eight presidents, going back from Nixon to Obama. Trump: Right. BW: And I learned something about reporting, frankly, Mr. President. Trump: Good BW: I've got to go talk to people and see them outsid

eral Bill Barr didn't show up for a hearing. An Obama-era Justice Department spokesman tried to keep e

licans are preparing to go after a Trump appointee who used to work for them on the Hill after he released a report that said White House counselor Kellyanne Conway should be fired for blatantly violating the Hatch Act. Rachael Bade and Lisa Rein report: "Henry Kerner, head of the Office of Special Counse