Fully, Completely and Truthfully: The witch hunt has bagged another witch. President Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort pleaded guilty to several federal felonies yesterday and promised to tell all to the Special Counsel investigation into Russian meddling with the 2016 election.

Manafort pleaded guilty in Washington, DC, to one count of conspiracy against the US and one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice by attempting to influence a witness. He also agreed to give up his ill-gotten riches, including three houses and two apartments — one of them in Trump Tower in Manhattan.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said, “This had absolutely nothing to do with the President or his victorious 2016 Presidential campaign. It is totally unrelated.”She couldn’t possibly know that.

Manafort’splea comes just weeks after he was found guilty in a separate case and President Trump, speaking like a Mafia don, praised Manafort for being “brave” and not taking a deal to testify. The NY Times reports, according to sources, that Manafort waited several weeks for President Trump to give him a pardon before he decided to “turn.”

The 69-year-old Manafort faces a potential 20 years in prison, but that may hinge on what he has to tell the prosecutors. He swore to tell “completely and truthfully” about everything he knows, and that leaves basically three possibilities:

1. He has information about the shady financial dealings of Russian oligarchs, but nothing involving Trump or his 2016 campaign.
2. He knows about crimes committed by the Trump campaign, but not necessarily the President.
3. He will tell the Special Counsel about crimes committed by Donald Trump.

Weather Report: At least five people have been killed by what is now Tropical Storm Florence, which has pounded the coast of the Carolinas with wind and buckets of rain. At 5 am the storm was just southwest of Myrtle beach, headed inland.

Among the dead are a mother and her infant killed in Wilmington, NC, by a tree that fell on their home. Southeast of Raleigh, a 78-year-old man was electrocuted yesterday trying to connect two extension cords in the rain.

Flooding has already hit some coastal areas, but what is still to come is flash flooding and even higher rivers as the storm moves inland, dropping rain that will drain back to the coast. Forecasts predict up to 50 inches of rain could fall in southeast North Carolina through Sunday.That’s right, 50 inches

Later Days: Workers in San Francisco yesterday removed a statue known as “Early Days” that featured an American Indian lying at the feet of a conquering Spanish cowboy and a robed priest. The statue had stood in San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza.

The city’s arts commission voted last February to take down the statue, issuing a statement saying it depicted “the degradation and genocide of Native American peoples” using stereotypes that “are now universally viewed as disrespectful, misleading, and racist.”

Fly Me to the Moon: The private space exploration company SpaceX has signed its first passengerto fly around the Moon aboard its Big Falcon Rocket, a two-stage, reusable, heavy-lift vehicle designed for ferrying people and cargo to and from Mars. SpaceX hasn’t posted the ticket price. If you have to ask, you can’t afford it. By comparison, NASA pays about $75 million for a seat on the Russian Soyuz space capsule.

Bad Blood: Making the rounds of the internet is an article in The Hollywood Reporterwritten by veteran television producer Linda Bloodworth Thomason dancing on the professional grave of the deposed CBS network boss Les Moonves. She actually says, “ And not just any dance — this will be the Macarena, the rumba, the cha-cha and the Moonwalk.”

Bloodworth Thomason was the successful creator of the long-running sitcom “Designing Women,” which made a ton of money for CBS. She describes how from the moment Moonves was installed at the top of the company, he froze her out. She describes her first meeting with Moonves in which, “He sat and stared at me throughout the entire reading with eyes that were stunningly cold, as in, ‘You are so dead.’”

Bloodworth Thomason writes that while Moonves had a reputation for sexual aggression with women, he also kind of hated them. He killed her career for no apparent reason.

She wrote, “Perhaps the best we can do is thank Ronan Farrow and all the brave women who came forward to make sure a man like this is finally gone, while putting all the other sexual predators who are still in our business on notice. We are not going to stop until every last one of you is gone. We don’t care anymore if you go to jail or go to hell. Just know at some point that you are leaving.”

Standup Comedy: A reporter from the weather channel is the target of snickers after he was filmed leaning into the wind while he reported as if he was struggling not to be blown away. Then two young men casually walked through the frame having no difficulty staying on their feet.

Standing in hurricanes is a staple of television news coverage, and now of internet memes. One shows a reporter being hit by a stop sign. Our favorite is the reporter who gets hit by a flying fish.

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