The Trumpster Fire: President Trump’s former fixer and lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty yesterday to lying to Congress about President Trump’s negotiations to build a hotel in Moscow during the 2016 campaign. It’s his second guilty plea.

Cohen testified that the negotiations ended in January before any votes in the primaries, but they actually ended in June while Russian computers hackers were trying to sway the election to Trump, and Trump had already won the Republican nomination.

The thing to take away from this is that’s it’s evident that the Special Counsel knows the true answer to a lot of questions he asks. If President Trump in his written answers to the Counsel differs from what Cohen now says, he’s got trouble.

The indictment and plea came as a surprise. Cohen said he talked to Trump about the project more than three times  and also briefed Trump’s family members. Cohen said in court that he lied out of loyalty to the President and to be consistent with his political messaging.

The plea left Trump sputtering personal attacks on his former confidante. “He was convicted of various things unrelated to us,” Trump said. “He’s a weak person and what he’s trying to do is get a reduced sentence.”

This morning from Argentina, Trump was tweeting victimhood. “Oh, I get it! I am a very good developer, happily living my life, when I see our Country going in the wrong direction (to put it mildly). Against all odds, I decide to run for President & continue to run my business-very legal & very cool, talked about it on the campaign trail…….Lightly looked at doing a building somewhere in Russia. Put up zero money, zero guarantees and didn’t do the project. Witch Hunt!”

G-Whiz:President Trump scored a political win today, signing a renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico.

Travelling for today’s G-20 summit in Argentina, the President cancelled a scheduled meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin. The Russians have refused to return captured Ukrainian sailors and three naval vessels they impounded after an air attack over the weekend. But the word from the press plane is that Trump is just too upset about Cohen and the Russia thing.

The President is expected to score a big win today when he signs a renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico.

Trump is also expected to have his first sit down with Xi Jinping since the beginning of his trade war with China.

Also present will be Saudi leader Mohammed bin Salman, attending his first international political event since the murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Family Feud:A New Jersey man has been charged with killing his brother as well as his wife and two children two days before Thanksgiving. It appears to be a dispute over their business interests.

Authorities were called to Keith Caneiro’s mansion where they found him shot dead outside and his house engulfed in flames. When the fire was out, they found the burned remains of Caneiro’s wife and daughters.

Paul Caneiro, the older of the brothers, had already been charged with setting fire to his own home the same day in what investigators now say was an attempted ruse to suggest both men were targeted by someone unknown.

The brothers had been extremely close, both personally and doing business together. They owned two businesses. But, according to The NY Times, Paul has been struggling financially and had separated from his wife. Keith had recently talked about branching out, doing something different with his life, potentially leaving Paul stranded.

There was no evidence of tension between the brothers. Now, Paul is charged with shooting Keith, then stabbing to death Jennifer Caneiro, 45, Jesse, 11, and Sophia, 8 before he set their house on fire.

The Right Man:Police in Georgia have arrested a man believed to be responsible for a Thanksgiving night shopping mall shooting in which officers shot and killed the wrong man. Erron Brown, 20,was found hiding in a relative’s home.

The family of 21-year-old EJ Bradford, the man who was killed, are demanding that the police release all video of the incident, including police bodycam footage. Bradford was an army veteran with a concealed weapons permit.

Wisdom From On High:President Trump told The Washington Post, “I have a gut, and my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else’s brain can ever tell me.”

Agreed. President Trump has a gut.

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