Celebrity Pardons, Season One: Despite saying drug dealers should be executed, President Trump yesterday pardoned a 63-year-old woman spending life in prison for being part of a cocaine ring. He did it after meeting recently with celebutante Kim Kardashian, who made a plea for Alice Marie Johnson, who’s been in prison more than 20 years.

Trump is also reported to be considering pardons for former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who’s doing 14 years for corruption, and celebrity home maven Martha Stewart, who did time in an insider trading case.

Trump has been disregarding the traditional pardon process in which the Justice Department screens candidates for pardons and clemency. He has been issuing pardons in cases that have been brought to his attention by friends, celebrities, and conservative media.

More Trump Stuff: House Speaker Paul Ryan told reporters yesterday he’s seen “no evidence” that the FBI planted a spy inside President Trump’s 2016 campaign, despite Trump’s repeated insistence to the point of labelling it “Spygate.” Ryan was one of the legislators briefed on the FBI’s investigation into Russian attempts to influence Trump’s campaign.

Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who is not a foreign policy adviser or an employee of the White House, said yesterday in Israel that the Singapore summit was reinstated because North Korean leader Kim Jong-un “got back on his hands and knees and begged for it, which is exactly the position you want to put him in.” It was that kind of insult-trading that caused Trump to cancel the meeting before it was put back on the calendar.

The President defended his wife Melania on Twitter yesterday after her mysterious 25 day absence from public view. In doing it, he re-circulated all the rumors about her: “The Fake News Media has been so unfair, and vicious, to my wife and our great First Lady, Melania. During her recovery from surgery they reported everything from near death, to facelift, to left the W.H. (and me) for N.Y. or Virginia, to abuse. All Fake, she is doing really well!”

    Porn actress Stormy Daniels has sued her former lawyer, claiming he colluded with President Trump’s fixer Michael Cohen against her legal interests.

Nation: The Border Patrol arrested 50,000 illegal immigrants in May, suggesting  that President Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration and his policy of separating children from parents is having little effect. Arrests are at their highest level since Trump became President.

Outfoxed:  Former Fox News analyst, retired Lt. Col. Ralph Peters, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper last night he is “convinced” that Russian President Vladimir Putin has some type of “grip” on President Trump. He said, “Here is someone who has no self-control, a sense of sexual entitlement and intermittent financial crisis,” he said of Trump. “I mean, that’s made-to-order for seduction by Russian intelligence.”

Peters resigned from Fox News because he was appalled at the networks attacks on the FBI, intelligence agencies, and the  constant drumbeat about the “deep state” running the country. Asked whether he thinks the Fox hosts actually believe all that stuff, Peters answered with a zinger. “ I suspect Hannity really believes it. The others are smarter.”

Environmental Pollution: As ethics investigations mount against EPA administrator Scott Pruitt, two top aides under question resigned. Millan Hupp, who was Pruitt’s scheduler, and Sarah Greenwalt, a senior counsel, left the agency. Both had worked for Pruitt in Oklahoma.

Pruitt is being investigated for everything from having an excessively large security obsession to buying expensive custom-made fountain pens. The latest is that he had political aide Sydney Hupp try to arrange to get a Chik-fil-A fast-food franchise for his wife.

Just four years ago Sydney Hupp was a waitress at Eskimo Joe’s restaurant in Stillwater, Okla., and immediately after became deputy director of “Team Pruitt.” She is the sister of Millan Hupp, 26, who graduated college in 2014 and also served at Eskimo Joe’s until May 2014.

Eskimo Joe’s claims it has “world famous” cheese fries.

The Obit Page: Jerry Maren, the dwarf who was the leader of  “The Lollipop Guild” in the 1939 film, “The Wizard of Oz,” has died in San Diego at age 98. He was the last survivor of as many as 100 dwarfs who sang and performed the classic numbers “We’re Off to See the Wizard” and “Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead.”

Most of Maren’s fellow dwarfs never acted again, but he went on to work as spokesman for Oscar Meyer hotdogs in the 1950s, traveling the country in a Weinermobile. He played Buster Brown in shoe commercials, wearing a Little Lord Fauntleroy uniform and singing: “That’s my dog, Tige, he lives in a shoe. / I’m Buster Brown. Look for me in there, too.”

Maren spent a good deal of his life standing up for the dignity of what he dubbed “little people.” The Munchkins were paid $100 a week to appear in “Wizard.” Toto, Dorothy’s dog, got $125.

Hoop Dreams: The Golden State Warriors came from behind last night to win game three of the NBA finals 110-102. Cleveland’s LeBron James is astounding. He scored 33 points last night and without him Cleveland would even be on the court.

Brand New: The International House of Pancakes, which has been around for 60 years and is universally known as “IHOP” is changing its name to “IHOb.” It’s a stroke of genius.

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