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

rly Hills— the then candidate polishing off a pint of Haagen-Dazs vanilla as he happily and idly opined about a range of topics while his aides, Hope Hicks, Corey Lewandowski, and Jared Kushner, went in and out of the room. Conversations with members of the campaign’s team continued through the Republica

City. And Mar-a-Lago. And Trump SoHo. Both Chris Christie and Rudy Giuliani—each a self-styled expert on th

as going to throw him in the soup. Manafort was going to roll. And it wasn’t just Russia. It was Atlantic City. And Mar-a-Lago. And Trump SoHo. Both Chris Christie and Rudy Giuliani—each a self-styled expert on the DOJ and the FBI, and ever assuring Trump of their inside sources—encouraged him to take the view t

19995 11 WIRETAP ith three screens in his White House bedroom, the president was his own best cable y Y curator. But for print he depended on Hope Hicks. Hicks, who had been his junior aide for most of the campaign and his spokesperson (although, as he would point out, he was really his own spokespers

the media that could not be positively spun. The day after his “reset” speech before the joint session of Congress presented a certain conundrum for Hicks. Here were the first generally good notices for the administration. But in the Post, the Times, and the New Yorker that day, there was also an ugly b

An Obama guy will be acting attorney general. I said you’re not going to get Rudy’—Trump had again revived a wish for his loyalists Rudy Giuliani or Chris Christie to take the job—‘“because he was on the campaign and will have to recuse himself, and Chris Christie, too, so those are masturbatory fantasies, get t

2-96, 298 chemical weapons, 183-84, 190-93, 265 Cheney, Dick, 27 China, 6-8, 39, 100, 193-94, 211, 226, 228, 258, 267, 269-70, 297 Chopra, Deepak, 80 Christie, Chris, 16, 24-25, 30-31, 210, 242, 279 Christoff, Niki, 78 Churchill, Winston, 50 Circa news website, 159, 257 Clapper, James, 41, 214-15 Clinton, B

n aggrieved, unyielding, and threatening president dominated the discussion, pushing HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020079 into line his daughter and her husband, Hicks, and Raffel. Kasowitz—the lawyer whose specific job was to keep Trump at arm’s length from Russian-related matters—was kept on hold on the phone for

s the ultimate facilitator of unmediated behavior. His impulses and thoughts—unedited, unreviewed, unchallenged—not only passed through him, but, via Hicks, traveled out into the world without any other White House arbitration. “The problem isn’t Twitter, it’s Hope,” observed one communication staffer.

nalties and a supervised release period. `Bomb threats, whether real or hoax, are dangerous and disruptive to work environments,' said U.S. Attorney Christine. `This one was especially inexcusable as it was made on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks."' WTGS-TV adds, "According to the i

om/story/news/local/macomb-county/2020/11/12/former-macomb- prosecutor-eric-smiths-plea-hearing-moved-again-amid-virus-diagnosis/6274690002/> (11/12, Hicks, 825K) reports, "A plea hearing in former Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith's corruption case has been rescheduled a second time after he was dia

alties and a supervised release period. 'Bomb threats, whether real or hoax, are dangerous and disruptive to work environments,' said U.S. Attorney Christine. 'This one was especially inexcusable as it was made on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks." WTGS-TV adds, "According to the in

d theft of funds from a federally funded program." Plea Hearing For Ex-Michigan Prosecutor Moved Again Due To Coronavirus. The Detroit News (11/12, Hicks, 825K) reports, "A plea hearing in former Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith's corruption case has been rescheduled a second time after he was dia

alties and a supervised release period. 'Bomb threats, whether real or hoax, are dangerous and disruptive to work environments,' said U.S. Attorney Christine. 'This one was especially inexcusable as it was made on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks." WTGS-TV adds, "According to the in

d theft of funds from a federally funded program." Plea Hearing For Ex-Michigan Prosecutor Moved Again Due To Coronavirus. The Detroit News (11/12, Hicks, 825K) reports, "A plea hearing in former Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith's corruption case has been rescheduled a second time after he was dia