Et Tu, Brute?:  In what may be one of the most serious legal blows yet to President Trump, the chief financial officer of the Trump companies has been granted immunity for his testimony about former Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen.

Allen Weisselberg, the CFO, has worked for the Trump family his entire adult life. In an audio recording made by Cohen, he was mentioned as a knowing participant in arranging to pay for the silence of former Playboy model Karen McDougal about her affair with Trump. Weisselberg also appears to have approved phony invoices to repay Cohen for money he advanced in paying off Stormy Daniels, the porn actress with who Trump also had an affair.

Which way this cuts is hard to understand. Cohen has already pleaded guilty and Weisselbergis reported to still be employed by the company. It’s an odd one.

A smaller shoe also dropped yesterday. A former doorman who claims to have knowledge of a Trump affair with a housekeeper who ended up having a child has been released from his “catch and kill” story contract with The National Enquirer. He’s free to talk.

The Long Goodbye: The family of Arizona Sen. John McCain, the former  presidential candidate and Vietnam prisoner of war, announced that he is giving up treatment for a brain tumor and letting the disease take its course.

McCain has been a stalwart of the Republican party since he was elected to the Senate in 1986.

A year ago McCain was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer. A family statement said, “the progress of disease and inexorable advance of age render their verdict.”

Him Too: Dr. Thomas Frieden, 57, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was arrested yesterday and taken in handcuffs on charges that he  squeezed a woman’s behind in his Brooklyn apartment 10 months ago. He’s charged with misdemeanor counts of third-degree sexual abuse and forcible touching.

Frieden is married. His accuser is an unnamed 55-year-old woman, a longtime friend described in news reports as a feminist activist. She claims that when she and other guests were leaving Freiden’s apartment, he groped her.

The Walkback: Only a day after announcing that he was sending Secy. of State Mike Pompeo to North Korea, President Trump ordered him not to go because the Hermit Kingdom is making insufficient progress toward getting rid of its nuclear weapons. Although Trump announced after his meeting with dictator Kim Jong-un that North Korea is no longer a nuclear threat, some US officials recently told The Washington Postthat the North continues to build ballistic missiles.

Trump is also disappointed that China is not putting the kind of pressure on North Korea that he would like to see. Having opened a trade war with China, he’s unlikely to get the cooperation he wants.

The Roundup: Elon Musk announced his decision to leave Tesla a public company. He had posted a cryptic tweet a while ago suggesting he was going to take it private. — Pope Francis is in Ireland, facing a sexual abuse scandal and dwindling influence of his church. — Three people have been charged with toppling the “Silent Sam” statue of a Confederate soldier at the University of North Carolina. Protesters said they had demolished a symbol of white supremacy. — Hurricane Lane has been downgraded to a tropical storm as it passes below Oahu.

The Obit Page: Robin Leach, the British reporter known as “the jacuzzi journalist” for his long-running television show “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,” has died in Las Vegas at 76 . A former gossip columnist, the portly Leach hit it big with his show that allowed viewers to share with envy the lives of the rich, beautiful, tasteless, and decadent. His subjects had to have a minimum net worth of $50 million and Leach glorified them with a voice like a carnival barker. He said, “We want to know about the person who is better than ourselves, not the person who isn’t.”

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