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;

ns against the Russians, an assurance Pence publicly repeated. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019955 Yates now told the White House that Flynn’s conversation with Kislyak had actually been captured as part of an “incidental collection” of authorized wiretaps. That is, a wiretap had presumably been authorized on the Rus

ared the next day under three other bylines—indicating that DeYoung’s interview was hardly the point of the story—contained new leaked details of the Kislyak phone call, which the Post now said had indeed dealt with the issue of sanctions. The article also contained Flynn’s denial—‘he twice said ‘no’ ”—as

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

ze and delight in both the insult and his personal impunity, the president met with Russian bigwigs in the Oval Office, including Russia’s Ambassador Kislyak, the very focus of much of the Trump-Russia investigation. To the Russians he said: “I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job.

fe, this was less than innocent: they would, with a sense of deepening threat, suspect Bannon of leaking the information about Kushner’s meeting with Kislyak. OOK Ok Few jobs in the Trump administration seemed so right, fitting, and even destined to their holder as Jeff Sessions’s appointment as the nati

orts John Lolos, who was escorted off a flight from DC after making "a ruckus aboard a plane on the tarmac," was arrested after a police officer at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport "spied a video that appeared to show Mr. Lolos exiting the Capitol on the day of the attack, according to an affidavit f

," was arrested after a police officer at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport "spied a video that a

oss, 375K) reports, "The investigation focused on leaks to Post columnist David Ignatius, who reported on Jan. 12, 2017, that Flynn had spoken with Kislyak, possibly about U.S. sanctions against Russia." The column "set in motion a series of events that led the FBI to interview Flynn at the White House

siness career Trump (far right) and wife Ivana in the receiving line of a state dinner for King Fand of Saudi Arabia In 1985, with U.S. president Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan 41 Real estate Starting in 1968, Trump was employed at his father Fred's real estate company, Trump Management, which

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Donald Trump - Wikipedia were imposed that same day; Flynn later resigned in the midst of controversy over whether he misled Pence.15631 Trump told Kislyak and Sergei Lavrov in May 2017 he was unconcerned about Russian interference in U.S. elections.[5641 Trump and his allies promoted a conspiracy theo

l (12/10, Subscription Publication, 6.13M), David Rivkin and Lee Casey, who served in the White House Counsel's office and Justice Department in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations, write that President Trump cannot be criminally prosecuted for obstruction of justice for firing James Comey a

pplication for a US security clearance." The Washington Examiner (12/8, Bedard, 301K) reports the "bottom line" is that Sessions' "two contacts with Kislyak in 2016 did not have to be revealed to the FBI on his SF-86 security clearance application, part of his confirmation process." The Hill (12/10, Man