Yet despite doing nothing to dispel the notion that she fantasizes about scaling the White House fence in the middle of the night and getting the first plane out of Dulles back to Slovenia, sources close to the couple insist this is a love story for the ages. “They have an unspoken affinity,” Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, Melania’s longtime gal pal and former adviser told the Post. Without directly commenting on the cornucopia of porn stars and Playboy models the president allegedly banged earlier in the marriage, including the one his lawyer allegedly paid $130,000 to keep quiet, Winston Wolkoff said the First Lady “is a dignified, private person, and she’ll deal with her personal life in private and it’s no one’s business.” As for Melania’s well-documented revulsion at the idea of touching Trump’s hand? Oh, you know, she’s not from around here. “They are not that couple that holds hands just because,” Winston Wilkoff said. “She is old-world European and it’s not who she is.”

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Wall Street sheriff Eric Schneiderman accused of physical abuse by four women

This report from The New Yorker doesn’t sound great:

All [four women] have been reluctant to speak out, fearing reprisal. But two of the women, Michelle Manning Barish and Tanya Selvaratnam, have talked to The New Yorker on the record, because they feel that doing so could protect other women. They allege that he repeatedly hit them, often after drinking, frequently in bed and never with their consent. Manning Barish and Selvaratnam categorize the abuse he inflicted on them as “assault.” They did not report their allegations to the police at the time, but both say that they eventually sought medical attention after having been slapped hard across the ear and face, and also choked. Selvaratnam says that Schneiderman warned her he could have her followed and her phones tapped, and both say that he threatened to kill them if they broke up with him. (Schneiderman’s spokesperson said that he “never made any of these threats.”)

In a statement, Schneiderman told the magazine, “In the privacy of intimate relationships, I have engaged in role-playing and other consensual sexual activity. I have not assaulted anyone. I have never engaged in nonconsensual sex, which is a line I would not cross.”

Report: Trump loves watching Mick Mulvaney destroy his enemies from within

Mulvaney’s efforts aren’t just about rolling back consumer protections and going to bat for loan sharks and other financial institutions . . . per The New York Times, they’re also about providing vindictive entertainment for the commander in chief: