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NBC News reports: Since her husband took office Melania Trump has earned six figures from an unusual deal with a photo agency in which major media organizations have indirectly paid the Trump family despite a requirement that the photos be used only in positive coverage. President Donald Trump’s most recent financial disclosure reveals that in 2017 the first lady earned …

The New York Daily News reports: Some drug traffickers appear to be using President Donald Trump’s image to brand their illegal wares. An Indiana State Police news release about 129 arrests in a series of drug busts in northern Indiana includes a photo of what police describe as “Trump-shaped ecstasy pills.” They are orange and stamped with a face. On …

The Washington Post reports: Trump has told advisers he is looking for three overarching attributes in a replacement for Kennedy. First, one adviser said, Trump insists upon an “extraordinarily well qualified” nominee with a superlative résumé. The president is especially drawn to contenders with name-brand degrees, such as from Ivy League universities such as Harvard or Yale. He also wants …

Yet another not so thinly-veiled threat: President Trump on Sunday blamed his opponents for the division in the country, warning that those who have spoken out against him should “take it easy.” Trump appeared on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” where he was asked about recent incidents in which celebrities cursed him out and protesters demonstrated against members of his …

Mashable reports: We’re all tired of “Donald Trump tweeted more BS” stories, but the lie he dropped on Saturday is too much of a doozy to ignore. Now. I’m no English language expert — granted, it’s been the focus of my career for the past 15 years, whatever — but it seems to me that “HOUSE REPUBLICANS SHOULD PASS THE …

Kellyanne Conway is claiming that she’s actually called for Trump to stop attacking the press as enemies of the people. Conway appeared on Fox News’s “The Ingraham Angle” on Friday, one day after a gunman killed five people at the offices of The Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Md. Ingraham asked Conway if the president is “reconsidering his language” toward …

Mediaite reports: Prankster/Comedian John Melendez may have to make a run for it after pranking the White House staff into speaking with President Donald Trump. Melendez defied the odds this week by posing as Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and after nearly twenty minutes, he managed to get a hold of the Commander in Chief from Air Force One. However, the …

Foreign Policy reports: The U.S. ambassador to Estonia, James D. Melville Jr., a career diplomat and member of the senior foreign service ranks, announced to friends Friday that he was resigning amid a string of controversial comments President Donald Trump made about U.S. allies in Europe. Melville, who has served as a diplomat for 33 years and as ambassador to …

The New York Daily News reports: President Trump announced on Friday two women are among the jurists he’s considering appointing to the Supreme Court, adding he will finalize his decision early next month. Trump made the revelation onboard Air Force One while en route to his private New Jersey golf club, noting he will officially name his replacement for outgoing …

Earlier today it was revealed that a comedian named Stuttering John managed to get through the White House switchboard and speak to Trump on Air Force One while posing as Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez. The prank has reportedly roiled the White House and once again raised alarms about lax security protocols in the Trump administration. Enter Fox News personalities Zircon …

Axios reports: The host of “The Stuttering John” podcast, John Melendez, got President Trump on the phone yesterday by pretending he was New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez. “This is how easy it is to infiltrate the administration,” Melendez said in the episode. Why it matters: This calls into question White House security. White House staff members are freaking out today …

In which Glorious Leader woodenly reads somebody else’s words about how he doesn’t wish violence on his self-declared enemies: President Trump on Friday lamented the “horrible” shooting at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Md., saying journalists should not face grave danger in the United States. “This attack shocked the conscience of our nation and filled our hearts with grief,” …

Just in from the Republican National Committee: Democrats are willing to fight for ANYONE illegally crossing our border. But they too often refuse to fight for their own fellow American citizens who voted to Make America Great Again! Too many on the Left push a message of anger, resistance, and violent rhetoric. Our movement is about prosperity, security, and love …

The Hill reports: President Trump’s top economic advisor Larry Kudlow on Friday said the federal deficit is falling, even though the latest data shows it is expanding since the tax-cut law went into effect. “As the economy gears up, more people working, better jobs and careers, those revenues come rolling in and the deficit, which was one of the other …

Sen. Marco Rubio this morning took to Twitter to lament the F-word’s appearance in news reports, likely spurred by last night’s unbleeped F-bomb on CNN, which was delivered by a Maryland shooting survivor in response the the usual “thoughts and prayers” that spill out after every mass shooting. Rubio apparently sees no link between coarsened language in the media and …

Axios reports: President Trump has repeatedly told top White House officials he wants to withdraw the United States from the World Trade Organization, a move that would throw global trade into wild disarray, people involved in the talks tell Axios. What we’re hearing: “He’s [threatened to withdraw] 100 times. It would totally [screw] us as a country,” said a source …

Mediaite reports: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was awful giddy Thursday night while discussion the future confirmation of President Donald Trump‘s next Supreme Court nominee. Appearing on Fox News, McConnell was asked to react to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) accused the Senate Majority Leader of “setting the rules” by not allowing “a Supreme Court justice during an election year.” …

The Washington Post reports: Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher A. Wray are scheduled to testify before the House Judiciary Committee Thursday about an inspector general’s report that found serious failings in how federal law enforcement handled a high-profile investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. The hearing will mark the first time …

The Hill reports: President Trump cited Russia’s denial of meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election in a tweet early Thursday, asking why former FBI Director James Comey did not examine the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) hacked email server. The DNC in April sued the Russian government, the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks, alleging that they conspired to aid Trump in …

The Huffington Post reports: The New York Daily News needed only three words for its Thursday cover focusing on Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement: “We Are F*#%’D.” The 81-year-old jurist announced Wednesday that he would be retiring at the end of July, after 30 years on the court. His departure gives President Donald Trump the opportunity to nominate a …