Epstein Secrets

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ten said in triplicate: "Make it go away, make go away, make it go away" The White House counsel Don McGahn—representing the Whi EFTA00316516 2 MICHAEL WOLFF SIEGE House rather than, in a distinction Trump could never firmly grasp, the president himself—demonstrated little ability to make problems disap

ing, mocking, falsetto-voice mimicry, and, as well, sweeping disparagements of his purpose and usefulness. "This is why we can't have nice things," McGahn uttered almost obses- sively under his breath, quoting the Taylor Swift song to comment on whatever egregious act Trump had just committed C... beca

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of liberals, who hoped to use these “incidental” wiretaps as a way to tie the Trump camp to a wide- ranging conspiracy with Russia. In short order, McGahn, Priebus, and Bannon, each with prior doubts about Flynn’s reliability and judgment—“a fuck-up,” according to Bannon—conferred about the Yates messag

4-16 Yemen, 6 Yiannopoulos, Milo, 128-28, 138 Zhukova, Dasha, 80 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020140 Zucker, Jeff, 92 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020141 ABOUT THE AUTHOR MICHAEL WOLFF has received numerous awards for his work, including two National Magazine Awards. He has been a regular columnist for Vanity Fair, New York, The Hol

HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020141 ABOUT THE AUTHOR MICHAEL WOLFF has received numerous awards for his work, includ

3, 109, 188, 264-65, 288, 296, 304-5 May, Theresa, 258 McCain, John, 112, 306 McCarthy, Joe, 73 McConnell, Mitch, 32, 117, 301-2 McCormick, John, 167 McGahn, Don, 95, 212-14, 217 McLaughlin, John, 10 McMaster, H. R., 109, 176, 185, 188-93, 211, 235, 258, 263-68, 276-77, 288-89, 298-99, 304-5 McNerney, Jim

1970," and while "that's true...most of those reductions occurred long before Trump EFTA00147491 was in office." A Politico (7/8, Gulllen, Snider, Wolff, 4.29M) "Fact Check" likewise says Trump "is taking credit for pollution reductions that have taken place under previous presidents - and undertaki

the 2016 presidential campaign." The book says, "The team talked to judges for whom candidates had clerked and to those who had clerked with them. McGahn was particularly interested in what candidates had been like in their mid-twenties, the stage of life when he believed most people's views solidifi

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preternatural confidence, nothi appeared to dissuade him—that sometime in the very near future he wot HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021125 --- PAGE BREAK --- 4 MICHAEL WOLFF hear directly from the special counsel, who would send him a compre- hensive and even apologetic letter of exoneration. “Where” he kept demanding to

ling, mocking, falsetto-voice mimicry, and, as well, sweeping disparagements of his purpose and usefulness. “This is why we can’t have nice things,” McGahn uttered almost obses- sively under his breath, quoting the Taylor Swift song to comment on whatever egregious act Trump had just committed (“ . . bec