The Family Feud: In response to a crisis with one of her daughters, President Trump’s uber-loyal adviser Kellyanne Conway is leaving her job at the White House. 
  She said, “For now, and for my beloved children, it will be less drama, more mama.” She’s been Trump’s number one defender and explainer.
  Her husband, George, also announced that he’s backing down from his activities with the Republican anti-Trump Lincoln Project. He said he would also take a hiatus from his Twitter account, which he uses to campaign against his wife’s employer.
  The Conways have four teenagers, but appear to be acting in response to 15-year-old Claudia, who has been public about her unhappiness with her parents and tweeted over the weekend that she wants to be emancipated “Buckle up because this is probably going to be public one way or another, unfortunately. Welcome to my life,” she tweeted Saturday night.
  Claudia says she doesn’t agree politically with her father, but reserves her bile for her mother. “My mother’s job ruined my life to begin with,” she wrote, “Heartbreaking that she continues to go down that path after years of watching her children suffer. Selfish. It’s all about money and fame, ladies and gentlemen.”

Unconventional: On the eve of today’s start for the Republican National Convention, The Washington Post published quotes from an interview with President Trump’s sister in which she describes her brother as “cruel” and a “liar.”
   Maryanne Trump Barry, now 83, told her niece, author Mary Trump, “His goddamned tweet and lying, oh my God.” She said. “I’m talking too freely, but you know. The change of stories. The lack of preparation. The lying. Holy shit.”
  Mary Trump used the interview material for her book,  “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created The World’s Most Dangerous Man.” She secretly recorded the conversation without her aunt’s knowledge because it’s legal to do that in the state of New York.
  The 83-year-old Barry said, “It’s the phoniness of it all. It’s the phoniness and this cruelty. Donald is cruel.”
  She said of their childhood, “He was a brat,” explaining that, “I did his homework for him.” She says, “He has no principles. None. None.”
  Maryann Trump told her niece that her brother had someone take the SAT for him to transfer into the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Finance. Maryanne Trump names a man who is now dead as the test taker.
  The President has said he got into Wharton, which he called one of “the hardest schools to get in to,” because he is a “super genius.”

Speaking of Whom: The Republicans have lined up 70 people to speak in praise of the President during the convention. Most notable is the President, who can be expected to praise himself all four nights.  
  Trump campaign adviser Jason Miller said on NBC’s, “Meet the Press,” that “One of the things you’re going to see this week is a complete change in the perception that I believe that the media tries to tell about what a Trump supporter looks like or who a Trump supporter is.” 
  Miller said the RNC will tell a “beautiful story.” With that in mind, two of the speakers will be Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis couple who pointed guns at protesters earlier this summer from the steps of their St. Louis mansion. But Miller told NBC’s Chuck Todd,  “We’re going to talk about the American story, about all the accomplishments that we’ve had over the last four years with President Trump and what the president’s second-term vision is going to look like.”
  Most of the President’s children, spouses, and their main squeezes are on the schedule; Donald Trump Jr. and his girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle; daughter Ivanka; Eric Trump and wife Lara; and Tiffany Trump by the President’s second wife, Marla Maples. The President’s third wife, Melania, is scheduled to speak.
  Many of the rest are predictable, among them some of Trump’s angriest supporters; House Minority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana, Reps. Matt Gaetz of Florida, and Jim Jordan of Ohio. 
  Representing relative reason and sanity will be former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley.

Viral News: Infection rates for the coronavirus in the US are dropping, but remain one of the world’s highest. California leads with more than 670,000 cases, about 240,000 more than the original US epicenter of New York.
  As of this morning, 5.7 million Americans have had the coronavirus and 176,809 have died.

Bubblesports: As summer heads to its end in the time of coronavirus, professional basketball and hockey are playing out their winter seasons and championships in a bubble of quarantine. Hockey players are quarantined in Edmonton and Toronto and get tested every day. They play without fans.
  The basketball bubble is at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Fla. Some big names are sitting it out for fear of damaging their health before they are about to become free agents. The NBA will play last season until October and then have the championship in an empty arena.
  What is the sound of no fans cheering?

She Promised a Rose Garden: Melania Trump is expected to deliver her Republican National Convention speech from the revamped Rose Garden, just outside the Oval Office.
  Mrs. Trump is taking heat for altering the design commissioned during the Kennedy administration and ripping out the flowering crabapple trees personally planted by Jackie Kennedy. She took out the bright red and yellow flowers, replacing them with cooler colors. “Cold” might be a better word.
  “It is a destruction of our history, something no other First Lady would have had the gall to do,” tweeted former NY Times reporter and author Kurt Eichenwald.
  One Twitter user wrote, “If you don’t like what the Trumps have done to the Rose Garden, wait till you see what they’ve done to the Constitution.”

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