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

s who got us in all these wars ... It’s not a deep bench.” Bannon said he’d tried to push John Bolton, the famously hawkish diplomat, for the job as National Security Advisor. Bolton was an Ailes favorite, too. “He’s a bomb thrower,” said Ailes. “And a strange little fucker. But you need him. Who else is good on I

sey Graham "took a different tack, appearing to defend Meadows." The New York Daily News (10/25, Shahrigian, 2.52M) reports former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), who tested positive for COVID last month after working with the President to prepare for the first debate, delivered "muted criticism" of Pence

working with the President to prepare for the first debate, delivered "muted criticism" of Pence's decision not to quarantine. On ABC's This Week, Christie stated that he was "a little bit surprised" to hear Pence would continue to campaign and he "said the Trump White House's disdain of wearing masks i

ead story on the CBS Weekend NewsVi (10/25, lead story, 3:20, Yuccas, 9.26M), Paula Reid said that on CBS' Face The Nation, Margaret Brennan pressed National Security Advisor O'Brien, "who also had the virus earlier this year, on Pence's refusal to quarantine." O'Brien said, "The free election is foundation of ou

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

December. Hicks missed this point; later, it had to be highlighted for the president by Bannon. Three people in the Trump administration—the former National Security Advisor, the current attorney general, and the president’s senior adviser and son-in-law—had now been directly connected to the Russian diplomat. To

Field Office acting Assistant Director in Charge Christie M. Curtis, who said, "One cannot get away with mu

— Tuesday, July 2, 2024. Location: The Heritage Foundation, 8:00 AM. The Heritage Foundation is honored to host Matt Pottinger, former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor (2019-2021), for our signature lecture on U.S. policy in the Indo-Pacific. This year's B.C. Lee Lecture will focus on the growing importance