Las Vegas Review-Journal

Words from Melania’s coat painted on pair of missions

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Vandals spray-painted political slogans on the walls of two historic San Antonio missions, including “I don’t care. Do you?”

That was the meme displayed on the back of first lady Melania Trump’s jacket as she boarded a plane Thursday for a flight to South Texas to visit immigrant children.

The graffiti was sprayed late Thursday night or early Friday onto the walls of Mission San Jose and Mission San Juan, both churches dating to the 18th century.

Diana Aguirre Martinez of Old Spanish Missions Inc. of the San Antonio

Catholic archdioces­e said contractor­s are working to remove the paint.

LOS ANGELES — President Donald Trump’s former longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen retweeted a photo of himself with comedian Tom Arnold, who is working on a TV show to hunt down recordings of the president, fueling speculatio­n Friday that Cohen has secret tapes of Trump and is willing to share them.

Last month Vice Media announced that Arnold would be featured in a new show called “The Hunt for the Trump Tapes” and would investigat­e rumored recordings of the president.

Arnold told NBC News on Friday that he met with Cohen at the Lowes Regency Hotel in Manhattan, and they discussed the new show.

“We’ve been on the other side of the table, and now we’re on the same side,” Arnold told NBC. “It’s on! I hope he (Trump) sees the pictureofm­eandmichae­lcohenand it haunts his dreams.”

Arnold tweeted the photo with Cohen and the caption “I love New York” on Thursday night. Cohen retweeted it without comment.

Cohen’s attorney, Guy Petrillo, did not immediatel­y respond to an email seeking comment Friday. A publicist for Arnold referred an inquiry from The Associated Press to a Vice Media spokesman, who didn’t immediatel­y comment.

Cohenisund­erinvestig­ation by federal officials in New York. His home, office and hotel room were raided by the FBI in April as part of a probe into his business dealings.

Investigat­ors are also looking into a $130,000 payment made as part of a confidenti­ality agreement with porn actress Stormy Daniels, who alleges she had an affair with Trump in 2006, which Trump denies. She is suing both Cohen and Trump in an attempt to invalidate the nondisclos­ure agreement.

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Tom Arnold

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