Hillary Six Months to Live!: The dominoes are falling rapidly along a path leading to President Trump. His lawyer has spilled and now his favorite tabloid is doing the same.

The publisher of the National Enquirer has reached a deal in which the company admits it bought and buried salacious stories about Trump in order to influence the outcome of the 2016 election. The publishing company American Media Inc.,run by Trump’s friend David Pecker, was granted immunity for admitting that it coordinated with the Trump campaign to pay a woman $150,000 to ensure she “did not publicize damaging allegations about that candidate before the 2016 presidential election and thereby influence the election.”

That woman was former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who says she had an affair with Trump while he was married to his current wife, Melania.

The generosity of the immunity deal reached in September suggests that the company has opened its dirt files on Trump after at least 20 years of protecting him.

The Big House: Michael Cohen once said he’d take a bullet for Donald Trump and now he’s going to jail for him. A federal judge yesterday sentenced the President’s former fixer and lawyer to three years in federal prison for his pleas of guilty to breaking campaign finance laws, tax evasion, and lying to Congress.

He goes to prison on March 6^th.

Some of the charges were brought by the Special Counsel’s office in Washington, and some by federal prosecutors in New York. Speaking to the court about his loyalty to Trump, Cohen said, “I felt it was my duty to cover up his dirty deeds.”

He also described working for Trump as “mental and physical incarceration.”

Cohen said, “I blame myself for the conduct which has brought me here today.” He went on, “It was my own weakness and a blind loyalty to this man that led me to choose a path of darkness over light.”

The judge was not sympathetic. Judge William Pauley III described Cohen’s crimes as a “veritable smorgasbord of fraudulent conduct” and added, “Each of the crimes involved deception and each appears to have been motivated by personal greed and ambition.”

Trump and his associates have said Cohen lied to get a soft deal. “I feel sorry for him,” said Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani. “He’s a pathetic serial liar.”

Cohen appeared chagrined at the stiffness of his sentence. But he had taken a gamble, declining to sign a formal cooperation agreement with the feds and refusing to talk about some subjects. The judge said Cohen’s assistance to the Special Counsel’s office was useful but did not “wipe the slate clean.”

Confidence: British Prime Minister Theresa May survived a confidence vote yesterday that was called by her own party, but she’s wounded.

May won 200 votes, 50 more than she needed to remain as prime minister, but 117 members of her own party voted “no confidence” in her leadership.

May has been unable to deliver a deal for her country’s exit from the European Union that makes enough legislators happy. She has said she got the best deal possible and the EU has said it will not negotiate anything further. May had to delay a vote in Parliament because she knew she would lose.

Having won yesterday’s vote, May is protected from another vote for a year, but politically she’s no better off, and neither is her Brexit deal.

In Da House: Nancy Pelosi, the leader of the Democrats in the House, has nailed down the votes she needs to return as Speaker in January by agreeing to serve no more than four more years in the job. Pelosi has been facing a revolt in her own party with some members looking for new and younger blood in the leadership. Pelosi is 78 and still considered to be a master politician and fundraiser for the party.

The Want Ads: President Trump appears to be having trouble replacing his Chief of Staff John Kelly, who’s leaving at the end of the month. After his first choice turned down the job, Trump said he’s got people pounding on the door to take the job, but no one has been named. Yesterday he said, “This is a hot White House. We are a White House that people want to work with.”

There’s always somebody who wants to work in the White House, but are they the people who ought to be there?

Rep. Mark Meadows of North Carolina was a name in play, but yesterday Trump said Meadows is too valuable in Congress.

Take a Shower: The annual Geminid meteor shower reaches its peak tonight as earth passes through the massive dust trail left by the rocky space object named 3200 Phaethon. The dust and grit burn up giving the illusion of “shooting stars” in the Earth’s atmosphere. In cloudless skies, you can see 50-120 meteors per hour.

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