Epstein Secrets

gan his campaign for president he had almost no friends in politics. The only two actual politicians with whom Trump was close were Rudy Giuliani and Chris Christie, and both men were in their own way peculiar and isolated. And to say that he knew nothing— nothing at all—about the basic intellectual foundations o

The day after the election, Trump’s close advisers—suddenly eager to be part of a process that almost everybody had ignored—immediately began blaming Christie for a lack of transition preparations. Hurriedly, the bare-bones transition team moved from downtown Washington to Trump Tower. This was certainly s

political experience. Christie, like most Trump allies, fell in and out of favor. In the final weeks of the campaign, Trump contemptuously measured Christie’s increasing distance from his losing enterprise, and then, with victory, his eagerness to get back in. Trump and Christie went back to Trump’s days t

law, carefully displacing as little air as possible: the massive and domineering older man, the reedy and pliant younger one. In the revised death-of-Chris-Christie story, it is not the deferential Jared who strikes back, but—in some sense even more satisfying for the revenge fantasy—Charlie Kushner himself who h

a HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019972 bunch of tariffs that will completely decimate how we trade, and Jared wants to deal with human trafficking and protecting Planned Parenthood.” And Priebus wanted Donald Trump to be another kind of Republican altogether. As Walsh saw it, Steve Bannon was running the Steve Bannon White Hous

ellent question. And maybe it4>=804os time we stopped blaming the lack of traction experienced by establi=hment conservatives like Bush, Kasich, and Chris Christie on things like p=rsonality and debating skill, and started talking again about that thing k=own as "the conservative movement." And as Mi=hael Lind

abandoned it after winning the White House. 19 EFTA_R1_00006495 EFTA01732900 Thus you have the spectacle of insiders like Jeb Bush, K=sich and Christie trying to sell policies that were unworkable even in the=Reagan years and since have become far more radical and therefore less pal=table. Once agai

thing k=own as "the conservative movement." And as Mi=hael Lind says — Maybe the real problem is less Jeb's awkw=rdness, or Kasich's personality, or Christie's New Jersey =ravado, than an issue that runs much deeper. The establishment candidates =n this year's Republican primary nomination campaign are out

Medicare. While the libe=tarians are promised the realization of their tax and budget fantasies, th= religious right is treated to denunciations of Planned Parenthood. And al= Republican candidates except Rand Paul call for more defense spending and=more military action abroad. That's in the playbook, too.</=> Al

eems downright friendly. Later Wednesday, on the main debate stage, the closest anyone came to challenging the hardline anti- immigration stance was Chris Christie, who, like Graham, took care not to object to the principle. Instead, Christie said only that the identification, tracking, and forced removal of it

e came to challenging the hardline anti- immigration stance was Chris Christie, who, like Graham, took care not to object to the principle. Instead, Christie said only that the identification, tracking, and forced removal of it million individuals from the United States is "an undertaking that almost none

n this very same topic. Still Republicans just announced another effort to abuse congressional resources when they launched a special panel to probe Planned Parenthood. Today partisan political attack committees are now just part of the playbook and although Democrats do it as well, it is the favorite for Republic

document "reflects type- written notes by FBI agent Joe Pientka after an August 17, 2016 briefing to then-candidate Donald Trump, Michael Flynn and Chris Christie, in support of ODNI briefings provided to US Presidential candidates and two of their advisors.' The Daily Caller <https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/2

efing-to-trump-and-flynn-used-as-pretext-to-investigate-campaign> (7/23, Dunleavy, 448K) reports Pientka quotes himself as telling Trump, Flynn, and Christie, "I will provide you with a counterintelligence and security brief that will give you a baseline on the methodology used by Foreign Intelligence Ser

after-planned-parenthood- repudiates-margaret-sangers-racismk (7/23, Piro, 78K) reports, "PolitiFact is not saying whether its 'fact-check' claiming Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger was not racist still holds up in light of the organization's largest affiliate admitting Sanger had racist views." The fact-

document "reflects type-written notes by FBI agent Joe Pientka after an August 17, 2016 briefing to then-candidate Donald Trump, Michael Flynn and Chris Christie, 'in support of ODNI briefings provided to US Presidential candidates and two of their advisors." The Daily Caller (7/23, Ross, 716K) reports Joseph

in the briefing," according to the memo. The Washington Examiner (7/23, Dunleavy, 448K) reports Pientka quotes himself as telling Trump, Flynn, and Christie, "I will provide you with a counterintelligence and security brief that will give you a baseline on the methodology used by Foreign Intelligence Ser

hood Repudiates Founder's Racism. The Washington Free Beacon (7/23, Piro, 78K) reports, "PolitiFact is not saying whether its 'fact-check' claiming Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger was not racist still holds up in light of the organization's largest affiliate admitting Sanger had racist views." The fact-

document "reflects type-written notes by FBI agent Joe Pientka after an August 17, 2016 briefing to then-candidate Donald Trump, Michael Flynn and Chris Christie, 'in support of ODNI briefings provided to US Presidential candidates and two of their advisors." The Daily Caller (7/23, Ross, 716K) reports Joseph

in the briefing," according to the memo. The Washington Examiner (7/23, Dunleavy, 448K) reports Pientka quotes himself as telling Trump, Flynn, and Christie, "I will provide you with a counterintelligence and security brief that will give you a baseline on the methodology used by Foreign Intelligence Ser

hood Repudiates Founder's Racism. The Washington Free Beacon (7/23, Piro, 78K) reports, "PolitiFact is not saying whether its 'fact-check' claiming Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger was not racist still holds up in light of the organization's largest affiliate admitting Sanger had racist views." The fact-