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The Washington Post reports: Lawyers for Paul Manafort say they’ll rest their case without calling any witnesses in the former Trump campaign chairman’s trial. The decision in the bank- and tax-fraud case comes after Judge T.S. Ellis III denied a defense motion to acquit Manafort as his lawyers argued the special counsel had failed to prove its case at the …

ABC News reports: A senior Trump campaign official confirms to ABC News, the campaign has filed arbitration against Omarosa Manigault-Newman Tuesday morning in New York for allegations that she violated her non-disclosure agreement with the Trump campaign. In a statement to ABC News, the official says: “Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. has filed an arbitration against Manigault-Newman with the …

Mediaite reports: Roger Stone, longtime ally of President Donald Trump, posted a photoshopped picture on Instagram Tuesday showing himself, the president, and other Trumpworld defenders in spacesuits. But the picture shows the mock Space Force team wearing shocking insignias. Swastikas. They’re shown wearing Swastikas. Judging by the imagery and the “in space no one can hear you lie” caption, the …

Bloomberg reports: Paul Manafort turned to Jared Kushner for help in an attempt to secure a Trump administration job for a Chicago banker at the center of Manafort’s fraud trial. Manafort, Donald Trump’s campaign manager in 2016, got a quick response. “On it!’’ Kushner replied on Nov. 30, 2016, according to an email submitted by prosecutors into evidence Monday at …

The Hill reports: President Trump early Tuesday morning fired back at former adviser Omarosa Manigault Newman for a string of claims she has made ahead of the release of her tell-all book “Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House.” In her book, Manigault Newman makes a number of damaging claims against the president, including that she heard Trump …

CBS News reports: President Trump says former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault-Newman lied when she called him a racist who has said the N-word on tape. The president tweeted Monday night, “I don’t have that word in my vocabulary and never have. She made it up.” But a new recording, obtained by CBS News overnight, seems to back up Omarosa’s …

Politico reports: Long before Omarosa Manigault Newman lodged explosive claims against her former boss, President Donald Trump’s White House foresaw the potential problems with ex-staffers’ tell-all books. Embedded in the White House’s two-page non-disclosure agreement was a seemingly innocuous clause that prohibited top aides from disclosing confidential information in any form including books, without the express permission of the president, …

Yahoo News reports: President Donald Trump fired back at claims of racism made by former aide Omarosa Manigault Newman late Monday, saying no tape exists of him using the N-word and referring to himself as a “true champion of civil rights.” Trump blasted Manigault, who served as Director of Communications for the Office of Public Liaison until her firing in …

“You better be careful because they want to end your Second Amendment, they are putting a big move on it. And Cuomo wants to end your Second Amendment more than anything. Cuomo wants to take away your Second Amendment. Now he called me and said ‘I will never run for president against you.’ But maybe he wants to. Oh please …

The Associated Press reports: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kevin Nicholson both came out Monday against boycotting Milwaukee-based Harley-Davidson, the day after President Donald Trump said it would be “great” if there was a boycott. Trump’s Sunday tweet forced Walker and other Republicans to take a position on the sticky political issue involving an iconic Wisconsin …

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 …

Talking Points Memo reports: An employee of Federal Savings Bank, where former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort successfully obtained $16 million in loans, testified Monday that the bank’s president opposed extending one of those loans to Manafort but was overruled by bank CEO Steve Calk, who served as an adviser on the Trump campaign. “It closed because Mr. Calk wanted …

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 …

McClatchy reports: At least 125 Republican campaigns and conservative political groups spent more than $3.5 million at President Donald Trump’s resorts, hotels and restaurants since January 2017, the month he was sworn in, according to an analysis by McClatchy. The money paid for catering for a fundraiser at the Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla. , a night’s stay at …

NPR reports: President Trump just gave Omarosa Manigault Newman the gift of another news cycle. Trump tweeted a scathing criticism of his former top-level aide just as her book-promoting media tour was gaining steam, all but guaranteeing the kind of made-for-cable feud that made them both reality TV stars and ultimately brought them to the White House. Given this assessment, …

The Washington Post reports: The FBI has fired Agent Peter Strzok, who helped lead the bureau’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election until officials discovered he had been sending anti-Trump texts. Aitan Goelman, Strzok’s lawyer, said FBI Deputy Director David L. Bowdich ordered the firing on Friday — even though the director of the FBI office that normally …

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 …

NBC News reports: Omarosa Manigault Newman, the former “Apprentice” contestant who became a White House aide, has provided an audio recording that she says is from 2017 and on which President Donald Trump expresses surprise that she’d been fired from his administration. The tape, which was played exclusively Monday on “Today,” appears to show Trump having no idea that Newman …

Politico reports: Several times in the first year of his administration, President Donald Trump wanted to call Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the middle of the afternoon. But there was a problem. Midafternoon in Washington is the middle of the night in Tokyo — when Abe would be fast asleep. Trump’s aides had to explain the issue, which one …

From the Trump Make America Great Again Committee: Friends, Our immigration system is in a state of COMPLETE CHAOS. Under current U.S. law, individuals can sponsor unlimited numbers of foreign immediate relatives for residency in the United States. THIS MUST END! Many of these chain migrants are not thoroughly vetted. This policy is a shameless Washington BETRAYAL of regular Americans …