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

-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

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

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

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

, 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

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

, 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

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

, 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

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

of discussion almost from day one. Among the string of HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020099 candidates were Powell and Cohn, the Jarvanka favorites; OMB director Mick Mulvaney, one of the Bannon picks; and Kelly. In fact, Kelly—who would soon abjectly apologize to Priebus for the basic lack of courtesy in the way his dismi

ly doing my duty as a citizen, providing information to the Senate that I believed would be relevant to the Supreme Court nomination process," said Christine Blasey Ford of her decision to testify against Supreme Page 17450 EFTA00046961 Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. "I thought anyone in my position w

a place for us all. We must remember it's not my America or your America. It's our America." (Colby Itkowitz) -- White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney told Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday" that Trump's tweets had "zero to do with race," and Wallace called him out. From Mediaite: "'Nobody object