Washington Wildfire: Everybody is suing; Trump insults the French while marking the Hindu festival of Diwali, and Melania stomps her foot. It’s only Wednesday.

The First Lady publicly demanded the firing of Deputy National Security Adviser Mira Ricardel. “It is the position of the Office of the First Lady that (Ricardel) no longer deserves the honor of serving in this White House,” the first lady’s communications director Stephanie Grisham said in a statement, proving that Melania wears the tight pants in the family.

Since when does the first lady fire members of the administration? Since yesterday.

No reason was given, but there were reports that the two had a bit of friction during Melania’s recent trip to Africa, a disagreement about seating and use of National Security resources.  Ricardel didn’t seem to see it coming. She was standing behind Trump smiling yesterday at his Diwali event. And by the way, he didn’t know it’s a Hindu holiday.

While that was going on,CNNsued the President and a list of staffers to get back correspondent Jim Accosta’s credential to be inside the White House. They yanked it last week after he had a contentious confrontation with the President.

The complaint says, “This severe and unprecedented punishment is the culmination of years of hostility by President Trump against CNN and Acosta based on the contents of their reporting — an unabashed attempt to censor the press and exclude reporters from the White House who challenge and dispute the President’s point of view.”

Accosta has his flaws, but since when does the White House get to decide who covers the beat? Since last week.

While complaining on Twitter about the US/French wine trade, the President insulted the ability of France to defend itself. He tweeted, “They were starting to learn German in Paris before the U.S. came along.” And no doubt, he would have volunteered to fight if he didn’t have bone spurs.

But wait, he’s too busy being sued by the state of Maryland. The state’s attorney general filed a federal lawsuit yesterday arguing that Trump’s appointment of Matthew Whitaker to be attorney general is illegal because he has not been approved by the Senate as the law requires.

Maryland Attorney General  Brian Frosh said in a statement, “President Trump’s brazen attempt to flout the law and Constitution in bypassing Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rosenstein in favor of a partisan and unqualified staffer cannot stand.”

He better be careful. Melania might get him fired.

Your Order Has Shipped: In another example of how government leaders will prostrate themselves to attract business and jobs, New York City agreed to $1.7 billion in concessions and incentives to get Amazon to build a corporate headquarters in Queens. The company hit $1 trillion in Value in September and New York has potholes.

The plan calls for Amazon to occupy eight million square feet of office space within 15 years. New York agreed, among other thungs, to re-do plans for the Queens waterfront, move a distribution center for schoollunches, and allow a helipad for Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.

In the House: The new Democratic Party met the old yesterday as New York Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spent her first day of orientation taking part in a climate change protest at the office of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. The 29-year-old was among about 200 protesters.

Ocasio-Cortez, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, said she wants to show Pelosi that “we’re here to back her up in pushing for 100 percent renewable energy.”

The Fires: Searchers have now found 48 bodies in the ruins of the Camp fire in northern California. More people are missing. In Malibu, volunteers are bringing food, water, and supplies by boat and surfboards to stranded residents.

Pike County Massacre: Authorities in Ohio have arrested a couple and their two adult sons in the massacre of a family in April 2016. They were the neighbors.

It was a crime that attracted national attention for its brutality and mystery. Police arrested George “Billy” Wagner III, 47; Angela Wagner, 48; 27-year-old George Wagner IV; and Edward “Jake” Wagner, 26, in a case they say was about the Wagner family’s “obsession” over child custody. They are accused of carrying out a carefully planned plot to kill seven members of the Rhoden family and a 20-year-old fiancée. Hanna Rhoden, just 19, was sleeping next to her newborn baby. The infant survived.

All the victims were discovered in three mobile homes and a camper in four locations in rural Pike County.

Jake Wagner is the father of one of Hanna Rhoden’s children, a girl who was 3 at the time. Jake was also one of three men who claimed paternity for Hanna’s infant daughter. Paternity tests later proved he was not.

Police originally thought the murders were a drug crime. It took them a year and a half to pin it to the Wagner family.

Ohio Attorney General and Gov.-elect Mike DeWinesaid, “There certainly was obsession with custody, obsession with control of children. This is the most bizarre story I’ve ever seen.”

Another Dude Did It: Lawyers for Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the murderous Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo, argued in court that their client has been framed by a vast conspiracy of plotters, including his chief lieutenant in the Sinaloa cartel, American drug agents, and the last two presidents of Mexico.El Chapo’s lawyer said he is merely a “scapegoat.”

Up in Vapor: Under pressure to stop trying to attract kids, the dominant electronic cigarette maker Juul said it would cease its social media campaign and stop selling flavored vapor pods in retail stores.

The sleek Juul is known as the iPhone of vaping. Its pods come in such flavors as mango, cool cucumber, andCrème brûlée.

Sounds like Ben & Jerry’s.

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