So, obviously we have a lot of questions, the first being: what is a “picture file?” Is Trump talking about a Google image search (which, incidentally, shows just a handful of photos of the two men from when they worked together)? Does he have a Getty account? Did someone—and this seems most likely—print out pictures of Comey and Mueller together and put them in an actual file folder for Trump to flip through and annotate with his favorite Sharpie? Unfortunately, the White House did not respond to the Hive’s request for clarification.

Elsewhere during Trump’s Q&A, the president said he was surprised Don Jr. had been subpoenaed by the Senate Intelligence committee; accused Representative Adam Schiff of “conning this whole country”; repeated his false claim that Puerto Rico has received $91 billion in disaster aid (and thus that its people “should really like President Trump”); and called for former Secretary of State John Kerry to be prosecuted.

In other words, just another day in Crazytown, D.C.

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Financial crisis villain has forgiven himself

There’s something deeply poetic about 11-day White House Communications director Anthony Scaramucci inviting Angelo Mozilo, who had a major role in the 2008 mortgage crisis, to speak at his annual Wall Street confab. Per the Post:

Speaking at an exclusive hedge fund conference in Las Vegas this week, the disgraced former head of Countrywide Financial said he doesn’t care that he is still being held responsible for the 2008 financial meltdown, driven by a collapse in shoddy subprime loans, many of them sold by Countrywide.

“A lot of years went by, my wife passed away, I turned 80 years old, and now I don’t care,” Mozilo said, eliciting nervous laughter from the crowd gathered at the SALT Conference in Las Vegas. “There’s other things more important in life,” said Mozilo, 81, wearing his trademark tan with stiff white-collared shirt.

Mozilo, who was charged in 2009 with insider trading and securities fraud related to e-mails in which he said things like “In all my years in the business I have never seen a more toxic product” and called another Countrywide offering “the most dangerous product in existence,” all while publicly touting the stock, claimed ignorance with how people got the idea that he had any role in the global financial crisis. “For some unknown reason, I got blamed for it,” he said. (Mozilo settled his case with the S.E.C. for $67.5 million and received a lifetime ban for serving as an officer or director of a public company, while neither admitting or denying wrongdoing.)