The Trumpster Fire: The impeachment report was released, he lost in court … again … had a fight with NATO leaders, and stocks took a dive. It was just another day in the presidency of Donald Trump.

  The House Intelligence Committee issued a 300-page impeachment report that concludes Trump “placed his own personal and political interests above the national interests of the United States.”

  The report says that Trump solicited foreign help to get elected in 2020 and abused his power to withhold military aid from Ukraine to pressure that country to investigate his Democratic rival, Joe Biden. The report says, “The founding fathers prescribed a remedy for a chief executive who places his personal interests above those of the country: impeachment.”

  White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham issued a statement saying, “Chairman Schiff’s report reads like the ramblings of a basement blogger straining to prove something when there is evidence of nothing.”

   The report lays out the evidence to be considered by the Judiciary Committee, which has the job of writing up the articles of impeachment. It says Trump’s “scheme subverted U.S. foreign policy toward Ukraine and undermined our national security in favor of two politically motivated investigations that would help his presidential re-election campaign.”

  It also says Trump has waged an “unprecedented campaign of obstruction of this impeachment inquiry.”

  Trump said of Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, “I think he’s a maniac. I think Adam Schiff is a deranged human being. I think he grew up with a complex for lots of reasons that are obvious. I think he’s a very sick man. And he lies.”

  The Judiciary Committee is scheduled to take up the case today hearing testimony from four Constitutional scholars about the grounds for impeachment.

  On the legal front, a federal appeals court in New York ruled that Deutsche Bank, Trump’s biggest known creditor, must turn over years of the President’s financial and tax records to two congressional committees. That’s another one likely headed to the Supreme Court.

  In London at the NATO summit, Trump insulted foreign leaders, sparring in public with French President Emmanuel Macron and Canada’s Justin Trudeau. In talks about paying for NATO and the defense of Europe, Trump chided Macron for not accepting captured ISIS fighters in his country. “Would you like some nice ISIS fighters?” Trump smirked. “I can give them to you.”

  He went after Trudeau because Canada is not spending the NATO-required 2 percent of gross domestic product on defense. “We’ll put Canada on a payment plan,” Trump said. “I’m sure the prime minister would love that.”

  And last, stocks hit the skids — 400 points down yesterday — after Trump said he might not resolve the trade war with China until after the 2020 election.

  But not least. Foreign leaders huddled over cocktails last night at the NATO summit in London, talking about Trump. Among them were France’s Macron, British PM Boris Johnson, and Canada’s Justin Trudeau, who talked about Trump taking over their meeting with a 45-minute press conference. Trudeau can be heard on the video saying, “You just watched his team’s jaws drop to the floor.”

It’s For You: The Intelligence Committee’s voluminous report includes records of a flurry of phone calls between Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and a list of officials in the days before the ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, was removed. The officials include then national Security Adviser John Bolton; Republican Rep. Devin Nunes; various White House officials; Fox News host Sean Hannity; and someone who is listed only as “-1.” House investigators are trying to determine whether that’s President Trump. If it is, it directly connects him to Giuliani’s parallel Ukraine foreign policy.

The Dwindling Crowd: With her poll numbers plunging and money drying up, California Sen. Kamala Harris announced that she’s dropping out of the Democratic race for president. President Trump tweeted, “Too bad. We will miss you Kamala!”, to which she replied, “Don’t worry, Mr. President. I’ll see you at your trial.”

The Bulletin Board: California Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter pleaded guilty yesterday to stealing from his campaign fund. His wife pled guilty back in June. Hunter initially said the charges against him were “fake news” and the product of a “Deep State” plot. He’ll resign and probably go to jail. — Late-entering Democratic candidate Michael Bloomberg outspent the entire field on television ads last week. $23.7 million.  

The Obit Page: Robert K. Massie, the Pulitzer-winning biographer who wrote wildly popular books about Russian history, has died at age 90. With the approach of both a novelist and a historian, Massie wrote immensely readable books about Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, and Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra, who were murdered with their five children 1918. — Wayne Merry, who with two other men was the first to scale the sheer wall of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, has died at 88. The 2,900-foot granite wall was considered unclimbable until they did it. The climb was done in sections, taking 45 days over a year and a half.

Short Staffed: Nailing down the over-80 vote, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden named his Iowa bus expedition the “No Malarkey” tour. Evidently, Malarkey couldn’t make it.

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