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Conway elex talk breaks law: pros

- Terrence Cullen Chris Sommerfeld­t Don call taxed Cohn Rich Schapiro

DESPITE PROMISING to have a loaded working vacation through Thanksgivi­ng, President Trump took to the links of south Florida on Wednesday during his “winter White House” stay.

The commander-in-chief’s motorcade rolled into Trump Internatio­nal Golf Club about 9:30 a.m.

That came less than two hours after White House officials said Trump would have a day packed with phone calls and meetings.

Trump also promised to keep busy throughout the weekend as he wrapped up an early morning Twitter rant.

“Will be having meetings and working the phones from the Winter White House in Florida (Mara-Lago),” the President wrote.

That came after Trump ripped into the NFL and LaVar Ball, who’s refused to personally thank the President for getting his son out of a Chinese jail for shopliftin­g. KELLYANNE CONWAY got herself into another ethical dilemma when she appeared to take sides in the hotly contested Alabama Senate race earlier this week — and now multiple former ethics officials are calling for her ouster.

The controvers­ial presidenti­al counselor blasted Alabama Democratic Senate candidate Doug Jones as “weak” and “terrible” during an interview on the White House lawn Monday — and President George W. Bush’s former ethics director claims those comments should get her fired.

“She has violated the Hatch Act by using her position to take sides in a partisan election,” Richard Painter tweeted.

Painter’s claim was backed up by President Obama’s former ethics czar, Walter Shaub, who filed a formal complaint with the U.S. Special Counsel on Wednesday. WHITE HOUSE economic czar Gary Cohn pretended to have a bad phone connection in order to end a call with President Trump earlier this month, a Democratic senator said Wednesday.

Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware told CNN that Cohn was having a discussion with Democratic senators about tax reform when the President phoned in while traveling in Asia.

“Fifteen minutes later, the President is still talking,” Carper recalled.

“And I said to Gary...‘Just say, Mr. President, you're brilliant! But we’re losing contact, and I think we’re going to lose you now, so good-bye.’”

The senators went on to have a productive conversati­on with Cohn, Carper said.

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