Stand by Your Man: President Trump yesterday indicated he will do nothing to punish Saudi Arabia for what appears to be the state-ordered murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. He essentially said the business and military relationship between the two countries is more important than whether the Saudi crown prince ordered the murder of a dissident journalist who lived in the US.

The CIA has concluded that the murder could only have been ordered by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Nevertheless, in a statement loaded with exclamation marks, Trump said, “Our intelligence agencies continue to assess all information, but it could very well be that the Crown Prince had knowledge of this tragic event — maybe he did and maybe he didn’t!”

The top of the statement said, “America first!” and the second line read, “The world is a very dangerous place!”

Trump went on to talk first about the dangers of Iran and the Saudi war in Yemen. Then he mentioned the $450 billion the Saudis say they will invest in the US, $110 billion of it to be spent on weapons.

Only in the middle of the statement did he talk about Khashoggi, passing along the Saudi justification. He said, “Representatives of Saudi Arabia say that Jamal Khashoggi was an “enemy of the state” and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, but my decision is in no way based on that — this is an unacceptable and horrible crime.”

Later, before leaving for Thanksgiving in Florida, Trump told reporters, “I’m not going to destroy our economy by being foolish with Saudi Arabia.”

Ro-mania: Don’t eat romaine lettuce and if you have any throw it away, the Centers for Disease Control warns. The CDC issued the alert after an outbreak of a particularly dangerous strain of E. coli bacteria.

They say no matter where the lettuce was grown or in what form it was sold, you shouldn’t eat it and restaurants should not serve it. The warning is unusually encompassing because the CDC doesn’t know where the outbreak originated.

Mystery Murder: Police in New Jersey are investigating the death of a technology executive, his wife, and two children at their burning mansion in wealthy Colts Neck. Keith Caneiro, 50, the CEO of a company called Square One, was found dead outside his home. Three bodies were found inside, burned beyond recognition.

Caneiro did not appear to have died of a self-inflicted gunshot.

Earlier in the day there was a fire about 10 miles away at the home of Paul Caneiro, Keith’s brother. Police are still sorting out what happened and why.

What Goes Up: The Dow Jones dropped 950 points, about four percent of its value, in the first two days of the week. The Dow has wiped out all of its gains for the year.

Analysts say investors are worried about trade, particularly with China, and tech stocks are beginning to bleed. Apple is down 20 percent this year because investors think they’ve lost the magic.

The Long Count: As final election results dribble in, Democrats have now picked up 37 seats in the House of Representatives, with three races still to be called. Democrats appear to be leading in two of them. It really is a blue wave after all.

One of the stunning results is that Orange County, Calif., the home of Richard Nixon and once a bastion of the Republican party, elected Democrats to all seven of its congressional seats.

The sprawling suburbs of Orange County today were the result of “white flight” from the cities to the fruit groves. The boundaries of Orange County used to be called “the Orange Curtain,” a play on the iron curtain, but the political walls have collapsed.

Still, demonstrating that they are not part of any organized political party, 16 House Democrats have said they won’t vote to restore Nancy Pelosi to the speakership. She engineered the re-taking of the House.

Unglamorous:After 80 years on the stands, Glamour magazine is going out of print, its publisher CondéNast announced. They’re going digital. So if you want to know how 12 stylish women would spend $50, you’ll have to go online.

 Glamour has a circulation of two million, but reaches about 20 million online, the company says. Last year Condé Nast ended the print editions of Teen Vogue and Self.

All the Fixings:Following tradition, President Trump yesterday pardoned the White House turkey, thereby setting off a Constitutional crisis.

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