Epstein Secrets

F HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY NEW TONN EFTA00316512 Contents AUTHOR'S NOTE XI 1. BULLSEYE 1 2. THE DO-OVER 21 3. LAWYERS 38 4. HOME ALONE 50 5. ROBERT MUELLER 6o 6. MICHAEL COHEN 75 7. THE WOMEN 88 8. MICHAEL FLYNN 99 9. MIDTERMS 113 10. KUSHNER 125 11. HANNITY 1 43 12. TRUMP ABROAD 156 13. TRUMP AN

ort to confirm it with other sources or documents. In some cases, I have witnessed the events or conversations described herein. With regard to the Mueller investigation, the narrative I provide is based on internal documents given to me by sources close to the Office of the Special Counsel. Dealing w

ing of th special counsel's investigation, Trump had tried to draw a line in the sang between Mueller and Trump family finances, openly threatening Muelle if he went there. Trump's operating assumption remained that the speck- counsel was afraid of him, conscious of where and how his tolerant might en

narrative I provide is based on internal documents given to me by sources close to the Office of the Special Counsel. Dealing with sources in the Trump White House has continued to offer its own set of unique issues. A basic requirement of working there is, surely, the willingness to infinitely rationalize or

that the campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts." According to Politico (7/11, Muller, 4.29M), the op-ed "was uncharacteristic for the former special counsel, who rarely spoke about the investigation publicly and whose office was know

e prosecution of Russia dossier author Christopher Steele. However, coverage of the President's remarks were overshadowed by former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's op-ed in the Washington Post asserting that Stone "remains a convicted felon, and rightly so," as well as criticism from lawmakers on both side of t

on to commute the prison sentence for his longtime associate and political confidant Roger Stone, claiming Stone was the victim of a `Witch Hunt." Mueller: Stone "Remains A Convicted Felon, And Rightly So." Bloomberg (7/11, Haubert, Krasny, 4.73M) reports that former Special Counsel Robert Mueller in a

e Facto Spokesman On Criminal Justice." The New York Times (7/12, Rogers, 18.61M) profiles Ja'Ron Smith, "the highest-ranking Black official in the Trump White House, a deputy assistant to a president who has threatened protesters calling for police reform and racial justice" after the death of George Floyd. Smit

lies. EFTA00040897 The Washington Examiner (12/10, Westwood, 301K) reports that revelations that Peter Strzok, an investigator on special counsel Robert Mueller's team, was demoted after "he allegedly sent anti-Trump, pro-Hillary Clinton text messages to his mistress," and prosecutor Andrew Weissman, also a me

as demoted after "he allegedly sent anti-Trump, pro-Hillary Clinton text messages to his mistress," and prosecutor Andrew Weissman, also a member of Mueller's team, "sent an email to former acting Attorney General Sally Yates in late January praising her decision to defy Trump's travel ban executive orde

esidential campaign with senior Russian officials," was "regarded as a critical interlocutor, first to the Trump campaign and later to the incoming Trump White House." Papadopoulos "received access to officials at the highest levels of the Greek government, many of whom shared links to Russia and sympathies that

tween the Trump for President campaign and Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. It was taken over by Special Counsel Robert Mueller Location: Rm G50, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, DC; 10:00 AM • Senate EPW Committee legislative hearing on draft nuclear infrastruc

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ed to square her 2017 testimony that Michael Flynn could be blackmailed by Russia with new revelations that the probe was an FBI setup targeting the Trump White House." SSCI Approves Final Russia Report. The Hill (8/4, Miller, 2.98M) reports the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday "voted to adopt its fifth

h no prior military or government service. His election and policies sparked numerous protests. The 2017-2019 special counsel investigation led by Robert Mueller established that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to benefit the Trump campaign, but not that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coo

the FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation into Trump's personal and business dealings with Russia. Crossfire Hurricane was folded into the Mueller investigation, but deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein ended the other investigation while giving the bureau the false impression that Mueller w

ia in the U.S., expressing concern that a normalization process by reporters and media results in an inaccurate characterization of Trump [7281 The Trump White House held about a hundred formal press briefings in 2017, declining by half during 2018 and to two in 2019.17271 Trump also deployed the legal system to

is staff’s ties to Russia. If Michael Flynn had recently become the most powerful man in Washington for what he might reveal about the president, now Mueller arguably assumed that position because he had the power to make Flynn, and all other assorted Trump cronies and flunkies, squeal. Rosenstein, of cou

reitbart as practicing an outré conservatism. For several years Breitbart had staged a nearby competitive conference dubbed “The Uninvited.” But the Trump White House would dominate or even subsume the conference this year, and everybody wanted to turn out for this sweet moment. The president, set to speak on the s

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te interests: it would not reach him. To that end, Dowd, and the otk members of Trump's legal team, recommended that the president coa erate with the Mueller investigation. “Tm not a target, right?” Trump constantly prodded them. This wasn’t a rhetorical question. He insisted on an answer, and affirmativ

blunt unequivocal: talk to no one, lest it become necessary to testify about 1 you said. Before long, a constant preoccupation of senior staffers in Trump White House was to know as little as possible. It was a wre side-up world: where being “in the room” was traditionally the r sought-after status, now you wanted