Epstein Secrets

the spot, many of whom he had never met before, for positions whose importance Trump did not particularly understand. Ailes, a veteran of the Nixon, Reagan, and Bush 41 White Houses, was growing worried by the president-elect’s lack of immediate focus on a White House structure that could serve and prote

hiefs have included Richard Nixon’s H. R. Haldeman and Alexander Haig; Gerald Ford’s Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney; Jimmy Carter’s Hamilton Jordan; Ronald Reagan’s James 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;

cting AG job needed someone with Senate confirmation. And even though she seemed to see herself as something of a prisoner held in hostile territory, Yates accepted the job. Given this context, the curious information she presented to White House counsel Don McGahn during the administration’s first week

White House in its assessment of the Yates message ended up seeing this as less a problem with an always hard-to-handle Flynn than as a problem with Yates, even as a threat from her: the Justice Department, with its vast staff of career and Obama-inclined prosecutors, had ears on the Trump team. 7 OK O

subsume the conference this year, and everybody wanted to turn out for this sweet moment. The president, set to speak on the second day, would, like Ronald Reagan, address the conference in his first year in office, whereas both Bushes, wary of CPAC and conservative activists, had largely snubbed the gathering.

rged John Birchers and the racist right and embraced the philosophic conservative tenets of Russell Kirk and William F. Buckley. In time, it endorsed Reagan-era small government and antiregulatory reform, and then added the components of the cultural wars—antiabortion, anti-gay-marriage, and a tilt toward

itutions. To Trump, he was just up against Sally Yates, who was, he steamed, “such a cunt.” HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020045 Since her firing on January 30, Yates had remained suspiciously quiet. When journalists approached her, she, or her intermediaries, explained that per her lawyers she was shut down on all

mp believed, of a sustained and well-organized media rollout for her. (His press view was confirmed later in May by a lavish, hagiographic profile of Yates in the New Yorker. “How long do you think she was planning this?” he asked, rhetorically. “You know she was. It’s her payday.”) “Yates is only famous

1-1982 Consultant to the United States Attorney's Office, Washington, D.C., in U.S. v. John W. Hinckley, Jr. (attempted assassination of President Reagan) 1982- Consultant to the F.B.I., the National Food Processors Association, and various corporations in product tampering cases, beginning with th

ohn W. Hinckley, Jr. (attempted assassination of President Reagan) 1982- Consultant to the F.B.I., the National F

ony Stavner (murder of three tourists in Yosemite) 2001-2006 Consultant to the Office of the District Attorney, Harris County, Texas, in Texas v. Yates (mother charged with drowning her five children) 2002-2004 Consultant to the United States Attorney's Office, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in U.S. v. Held

e Ronald Reagan Building, and the Hoover Building will be shut down," Director Patel wrote in a memo. President Trump told Fox News Digital that the Ronald Reagan Building is "a wonderful building," and said the FBI is "a wonderful group of people." He continued, "The FBI will finally have the kind of buildin

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wrote in a letter to Grassley that one reason for not releasing the report was that "the reporting will contradict Director Wray's testimony," and Yates also explained that the recall of the original reporting document was "abnormal" and met with disagreement by those in the Albany office. Senator Gr

offices of The Optima Management Group, a commercial real estate management and investment firm based in Cleveland, Ohio." WEWS-TV Cleveland (8/4, Regan) reports the FBI "has not commented on today's raid, but no one has been convicted of a crime involving Optima Management or its associated entities

or the FBI's search for collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin's plans to interfere in the 2016 presidential election." The Times says Yates "will be in a tight spot...forced to square her 2017 testimony that Michael Flynn could be blackmailed by Russia with new revelations that the prob

ducers, The (film), 15-16 Pruitt, Scott, 21 Putin, Vladimir, 7, 8, 24, 37-38, 99-102, 153, 155 Qatar, 230-31 Raffel, Josh, 142, 207, 258-59, 279 Reagan, Ronald, 26, 27, 34, 58, 90, 126—27, 144, 201, 222 Remnick, David, 154 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020133 Renaissance Technologies, 58 Republican National Comm

orld Bank, 257 World Wrestling Entertainment, 22 Wynn, Steve, 30 Xi Jinping, 193, 228, 258 Yaffa, Joshua, 154 Yahoo! News, 37 Yanukovych, Viktor, 101 Yates, Sally, 94-96, 98, 104, 214-16 Yemen, 6 Yiannopoulos, Milo, 128-28, 138 Zhukova, Dasha, 80 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020140 Zucker, Jeff, 92 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT