Infighting Is Funny

Politico reports: If Sessions’ recusal was his original sin, Trump has come to resent him for other reasons, griping to aides and lawmakers that the attorney general doesn’t have the Ivy League pedigree the president prefers, that he can’t stand his Southern accent and that Sessions isn’t a capable defender of the president on television — in part because he …

Mediaite reports: Hey, remember that time when Sam Nunberg went on an explosive, full-throttle media blitz that was equal parts highly entertaining and completely insane? Well, this sorta looks like that, but on Twitter. It isn’t clear what set off Nunberg on Tuesday morning, but he got online and threatened to take action against “white trash scumbag” Corey Lewandowski if …

“Michael was very good at certain things and one of the things he was very good at, and we have now seen it, is intimidating people. I didn’t like to work with Michael, I didn’t like to interact with Michael, and that’s why he had no role in the campaign, even when he wanted one. I was very clear when …

Mother Jones reports: Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a rare statement on Thursday responding to President Donald Trump’s continued attacks against him and the Justice Department—the most recent of which came just hours earlier in a newly aired Fox News interview. The president today accused Sessions of never having had taken “control” of the Justice Department. In his statement Thursday, …

The Independent reports: Michael Cohen’s lawyer has said his client will refuse any pardon from Donald Trump, branding the US president a “criminal”. Lanny Davis, who was hired by Mr Cohen last month, told National Public Radio Mr Trump’s former attorney would “never” accept a pardon from “a man that he considers to be a corrupt and a dangerous person”. …

The Hill reports: Former White House adviser Omarosa Manigault Newman said in an interview that aired on Tuesday that President Trump hired former communications director Hope Hicks for her looks. “Donald Trump hired her because she’s pretty,” Manigault Newman told Hill.TV’s Jamal Simmons on Monday. “She didn’t know what some of the most basic acronyms in politics meant. I said …

The Hill reports: President Trump on Monday said Justice Department official Bruce Ohr should be fired for his involvement in the Russia investigation. In a tweet calling for Ohr’s firing, Trump also took a swipe at Attorney General Jeff Sessions, suggesting he does not have the resolve to ax Ohr. Sessions has recused himself from the Russia probe. The president’s …

The New York Times reports: The tapes of Ms. Manigault Newman’s private conversations with Mr. Trump and other officials connected to him have rattled the White House in a way that few things other than the special counsel investigation into possible campaign collusion with Russia have. Mr. Trump’s aides have been concerned that they will make appearances on other tapes, …

“While your letter generally claims that excerpts from the book contain ‘disparaging statements,’ it is quite telling that at no point do you claim that any specific statement in the book is false. Your client does not have a viable legal claim merely because unspecified truthful statements in the Book may embarrass the president or his associates. At base, your …

NBC News reports: Omarosa Manigault Newman, the former reality TV star who became a top White House aide to President Donald Trump, on Thursday released exclusively to MSNBC a secret tape of campaign official Lara Trump offering her a $15,000-a-month job after her she was fired from the administration. The tape — which, according to Manigault Newman was made on …

Vanity Fair reports: In recent days, Trump has called Manigault Newman “crazed,” a “lowlife,” and a “dog” on Twitter. His campaign filed an arbitration suit against her seeking “millions.” And Trump told advisers that he wants Attorney General Jeff Sessions to have Manigault Newman arrested, according to one Republican briefed on the conversations. (It’s unclear what law Trump believes she …

From a profile of Kellyanne Conway and her husband: It’s a picture George Conway took on election night 2016: Donald Trump is reaching for the first draft of his acceptance speech, just as victory seemed imminent. Back then, George was such an ardent supporter of the president, and so proud of his wife for her historic role as campaign manager, …

People Magazine reports: President Donald Trump‘s relationship with his daughter and senior adviser, Ivanka, frequently crosses the line of “appropriate father/daughter behavior,” in the opinion of ousted White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman, as recounted in her new book, Unhinged, out this week. “As long as I’d known Trump, I’d observed the way he hugs, touches, and kisses Ivanka; the …

The Hill reports: “Fox & Friends” host Brian Kilmeade said Wednesday that ex-White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman has “outsmarted” President Trump by dragging him into a feud that will boost her book sales. “She has come out with a series of tapes,” Kilmeade said, “and in many ways, seems to have outsmarted the president who has taken the bait …

Mediaite reports: On Monday evening, Pierson appeared on Fox News and when Ed Henry challenged Pierson on Omarosa’s account that she had admitted the N-word tape existed, she said that this account “was absolutely not true.” Cut to Tuesday morning and Omarosa shared a recording of a conversation about the alleged “n-word” tape in which Pierson appears to confirm it’s …

Politico reports: A daily trickle of revealing internal conversations between staffers. Growing anxiety about what one might have once said. No sense of how long it will go on. Omarosa Manigault Newman’s slow release of secretly taped conversations from inside the Trump campaign and White House is having the same effect on staffers as the daily dumps from WikiLeaks had …

The New York Daily News reports: President Trump blasted his firstborn son as a “f–kup” after learning he had released emails about a controversial Trump Tower meeting attended by a Kremlin-connected lawyer who had promised dirt on Hillary Clinton, according to Omarosa Manigault Newman’s forthcoming book. Manigault Newman, who was unceremoniously fired from the White House last December, says the …

The Columbus Dispatch reports: President Donald Trump went after a long-time foe — Ohio Gov. John Kasich — in a tweet Monday morning. Open Twitter warfare is on, as Kasich responded with a tweet featuring a GIF of a laughing Russian President Vladimir Putin. Following a recent series of TV news appearances featuring Kasich’s take on the apparent narrow win …

The Associated Press reports: President Donald Trump went on the offensive Monday morning attacking, former White House adviser Omarosa Manigault Newman for releasing tapes she recorded during her time on staff. Trump’s Twitter bashing comes just hours after Manigault Newman appeared on NBC’s “Today” where she played more audio tapes she recorded, including a conversation with Trump after she was …

The Hill reports: Evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr. said he thinks Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray “deceived” President Trump into appointing them. Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) on Saturday said in response to the evangelical’s tweet that the people who decided not to prosecute those listed by Falwell Jr. were Sessions, Rosenstein …