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Hey, when are Susan Rice and the Obama Justice Depart heading to prison for their part in wiretapping Trump Tower and leaking the results? BIG scandal, remember?

Stone, who lives in Fort Lauderdale, tells POLITICO Florida that the Russia allegations and lawsuit naming him and Trump as co-conspirators have no merit.

“What they’ve done is taken allegations in print and pasted it together in a bogus lawsuit, so we have to defend,” Stone said. “This could cost me a hundred thousand dollars at least.”

Other Trump associates are racking up big legal bills amid the Russia investigations.

Trump’s campaign has shelled out at least $50,000 on attorneys for his son, Donald Trump Jr. Trump’s former national security advisor, Michael Flynn, is in the process of setting up a legal defense fund similar to the Roger Stone Legal Defense Fund, a knowledgeable source said. Former Trump campaign operative Michael Caputo has told reporters he’s liquidating his kids’ college fund to pay for his attorney fees.

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Trump 7:32AM—"Working hard from New Jersey..."

Trump 7:47AM—Attacks a senator [Blumenthal] on Twitter who was just on TV.

A record heat wave brought many parts of Europe to its knees over the weekend, killing at least two people and sparking wildfires. Serbia, Romania, Croatia, and parts of Spain, France, and Italy have been hit the hardest, with authorities issuing travel restrictions and advising residents to stay indoors during the day. Much of Spain was placed under emergency alert, with temperatures above 110 degrees. Serbians have been advised to avoid alcohol and physical exertion, and two people in Romania have been reported dead. The freakishly high temperatures—which have regularly surpassed 100 degrees—have destroyed crops and crippled transportation systems. Train tracks were warped in southern Serbia, while electrical demand in Poland surged so high authorities warned of infrastructure failures and sent public workers home early.

Eric Lipton‏Verified account @EricLiptonNYT 23m23 minutes ago
1) While Trump tweets about seemingly irrelevant stuff, his team is fundamentally reshaping US health, safety, environmental rules.

That investigation is progressing nicely and is expanding all the time. They won't quit until they get to the top of the whole sorry heap--Obama himself. They're doing it professionally, without leaks......

Why Is Donald Trump Still So Horribly Witless About the World?

Max Boot, a lifelong conservative who advised three Republican Presidential candidates on foreign policy, keeps a folder labelled “Trump Stupidity File” on his computer. It’s next to his “Trump Lies” file. “Not sure which is larger at this point,” he told me this week. “It’s neck-and-neck.”
Six months into the Trump era, foreign-policy officials from eight past Administrations told me they are aghast that the President is still so witless about the world. “He seems as clueless today as he was on January 20th,” Boot, who is now a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, said. Trump’s painful public gaffes, they warn, indicate that he’s not reading, retaining, or listening to his Presidential briefings. And the newbie excuse no longer flies.

“Trump has an appalling ignorance of the current world, of history, of previous American engagement, of what former Presidents thought and did,” Geoffrey Kemp, who worked at the Pentagon during the Ford Administration and at the National Security Council during the Reagan Administration, reflected. “He has an almost studious rejection of the type of in-depth knowledge that virtually all of his predecessors eventually gained or had views on.”