42 1G M Saturday December 15 2018 | the times | Saturday December 15 2018 1G M 43 Stasi ID card ignites Oscars desperately seeking interest in Putin’s past host to replace Kevin Hart World Page 44 Page 49 ‘Trump made me pay off Terrorist’s death gives gilets jaunes porn stars to swing poll’ free rein to riot Pagan winged ABC NEWS creature carries ferring to Mr Trump, for whom he France worth of sweeteners from Mr Macron worked for 12 years. torch to set — hardline protesters insist that they David Charter Washington Asked why people should believe Orion aflame Adam Sage Paris will continue. Several thousand have knowingly acted ille- him, a liar convicted of misleading Con- while pointing to France’s yellow-vest protesters yester- posted messages on Facebook to say gally to protect his election campaign gress, Cohen said: “There’s a substantial heavens. Second day threatened a fifth weekend of dem- they will be in Paris today, and many by directing Michael Cohen to pay amount of information that corrobo- creature offers onstrations as they dismissed govern- more have pledged to block roads, hush money days before the poll, the rates that I’m telling the truth.” Orion a crown. ment pleas to abandon their movement shopping centres and warehouses else- lawyer alleged yesterday. He added: “The [justice department] According to following the return of terrorism. where in France. Cohen, who once said that he would special counsel stated emphatically Greek Police chiefs warned that resources A Paris councillor who has been in “take a bullet” for Mr Trump, aimed to that the information that I gave to them mythology, were being stretched to the limit as they touch with intelligence agencies said pin criminal liability on his former boss is credible and helpful. There is a sub- Orion is the Pompeii art deployed 89,000 officers across France they had little idea of the likely scale of by claiming that he was “very con- stantial amount of information that brightest to prepare for further disturbances. the protests. Police will deploy 8,000 of- cerned” to prevent damaging claims of they possessed that corroborates the constellation. offers insight Police joined ministers in appealing for ficers on the city’s streets. A similar op- a sexual liaison with the porn star fact that I am telling the truth . . . I’m calm after the terror attack on Christ- eration last weekend failed to prevent Stormy Daniels from emerging as done with the lying. I am done with mas markets in Strasbourg which killed protesters from looting 144 businesses, Americans were preparing to vote. being loyal to Donald Trump . . . I gave into Romans’ four people and injured 11, one of whom mainly shops, and vandalising a further The allegation poses the clearest loyalty to someone who, truthfully, is brain dead. The fourth victim was 102 in Paris alone. legal threat so far to Mr Trump, with does not deserve loyalty.” identified yesterday as an Italian jour- Riots also broke out in cities such as the separate investigation into alleged A poll for CNN yesterday showed links to Egypt nalist named Antonio Megalizzi, 28. Toulouse and Bordeaux, where Alain Russian assistance for his campaign yet that public support for impeachment Investigators are seeking to deter- Juppé, the mayor, denounced scenes of to point to any direct connection with was down to 43 per cent from 47 per he discovery of a mosaic mine whether Chérif Chekatt, 29, the “urban guerrilla warfare”. The worst of the president. Asked whether Mr cent in September. showing a character that is killer, who was shot dead by police on the violence this weekend is likely to be Trump knew that it was wrong to make Michael Cohen, who faces three years in jail, insisted the president was culpable That may change once Robert half-man, half-scorpion with Thursday after a 48-hour manhunt, in the provinces. the payment to Daniels and an earlier Mueller, the special counsel in charge butterfly wings and flaming had accomplices. Seven people have The yellow vest movement began as one to Karen McDougal, a Playboy when they gain the majority in the for her story of a ten-month affair of the inquiry into Russian election in- hair has been hailed as a been arrested, including Sami Chekatt, a campaign against rising fuel duties model, to ensure their silence over House of Representatives, but the party which it never published — a tabloid terference, delivers his report. Mr Trare opportunity to learn about 34, his brother, who was detained in Al- before turning into a general expres- alleged affairs, Cohen said: “Of course.” is divided about the wisdom of starting practice known as “catch and kill”. Mueller — who is thought to be in the Pompeii’s fascination with astrology geria after France issued an arrest war- sion of anger and frustration among Mr Trump’s legal woes deepened a process that would require a two- Mr Trump this week tweeted that he concluding stages of an investigation and its trading links with Egypt rant for him. French officers describe lower-middle class provincial France. further yesterday when prosecutors thirds majority of the Republican- had left Cohen in charge of the pay- begun 18 months ago which has led to (Tom Kington in Rome writes). him as a radical Islamist whom they Mr Macron has caved in to many of the revealed that they had opened an controlled Senate to complete. ments and that he handed over respon- the prosecution of Cohen and several Found during excavations this year, suspect of encouraging or helping to demands and offered tax cuts and wel- investigation into the use of the “Nothing at the Trump Organisation sibility to ensure that they were legal. others in Mr Trump’s circle — must the character had never been seen plan the attack. fare benefit rises, shattering his pledge $107 million inauguration fund and the was ever done unless it was run through “He was a lawyer and he is supposed to hand his findings to the US attorney- before in classical iconography and Amid a resurgence of Islamist terror, to stand firm against the protests that true source of some of the cash dona- Mr Trump. He directed me to make the know the law,” he said. “Those charges general, who then decides what to initially stumped experts. However, police chiefs are concerned that have derailed many of his predecessors. tions amid suspicions that foreign pow- payments,” Cohen told George Stepha- were just agreed to by him in order to make public. Mr Mueller may be wait- the site’s director, Massimo Osanna, another weekend of riots against Presi- Yet hardline yellow vests are de- ers may have tried to buy influence. nopoulos of ABC News in an interview. embarrass the president and get a ing for the new House of Representa- said yesterday that he had unlocked dent Macron will push law enforce- manding more, notably a reform of Cohen, 52, was sentenced this week “You have to remember at what point much reduced prison sentence.” tives to convene in January because it Scorpion rises the mystery: it is Orion. ment to breaking point. Noting that of- French democratic institutions. Priscil- to three years in jail for crimes includ- in time that this matter came about, Mr Trump had denied affairs with will have the power to force details into from Earth and “In Greek mythology, Orion was a ficers were applauded by crowds of on- lia Ludosky, who helped to spark the ing campaign finance fraud, allegedly two weeks or so before the election, Clifford and McDougal. “I never direct- the public domain if the administration fatally stings giant and a hunter who announced lookers in Strasbourg after shooting movement with an online petition at the behest of Mr Trump. His claims post the Billy Bush comments. So, yes, ed him to do anything wrong,” Mr attempts to keep them hidden. Orion. Zeus turns that he would hunt every animal on Chekatt, they want an end to attacks on against fuel taxes, published a state- both of them would appear to meet a test for culpa- he was very concerned about how this Trump told on Thursday. Separately, re- Earth, incurring the wrath of the the police. ment calling for “popular referendums” bility in a campaign finance case would affect the election.” “Whatever he did he did on his own . . . ported that US prosecutors in Manhat- into stars in the goddess Gaia who sent a scorpion to Christophe Castaner, the interior to approve or to strike down legislation against Mr Trump: the payments ex- This is a reference to the recording of I never directed him to do anything tan had opened an investigation into heavens. Orion is kill him,” he said. Zeus, god of the sky minister, agreed. He said: “I can’t stand and for transformation of the Senate in- ceeded the legal personal maximum, Mr Trump making lewd suggestions incorrect or wrong.” whether foreigners illegally fun- given wings to and thunder, then transformed the the idea that today we are clapping our to a “citizens’ assembly” whose mem- were undeclared and were knowingly about women that emerged in early In his ABC interview Cohen nelled donations to Mr Trump’s in- represent his scorpion and Orion into police officers and that tomorrow some bers would be drawn out of a hat. calculated to influence the election, ac- October 2016. Cohen organised a pay- said that in the McDougal augural committee and whether transformation. constellations in the heavens, and people will think it’s a good idea to Divisions, however, have appeared cording to the lawyer. Mr Trump main- ment of $130,000 to Daniels, a porn ac- case he “just reviewed the some of the $107 million it raised Orion is identified today by the three throw stones at them.” He said that at within a movement that emerged on tains that Cohen is lying to embarrass tress whose real name is Stephanie documents” agreed by Mr was misspent. The stars on his belt. about the same time as Chekatt was Facebook and that has no official lead- him and to avoid a stiffer jail sentence. Clifford, as part of an agreement signed Trump with David Pecker, Times said that the inquiry was “A snake represents the ground shot dead by three officers in Stras- ership. Benjamin Cauchy, another of A protocol of the Justice Department days before the 2016 election to keep head of the Enquirer. “The focused on whether individuals from which the scorpion emerged, the bourg, a group of yellow-vest protesters the original instigators, urged yellow dating back to the Watergate scandal of quiet about an alleged fling with Mr man doesn’t tell the from Qatar, Saudi Arabia and sword the man carries is typical of were attacking a police car with a metal vests to avoid protests this weekend the early 1970s holds that a sitting presi- Trump ten years earlier. truth,” Cohen said, re- the United Arab Emirates depictions of Orion and the wings bar in Avignon, southern France. after the Strasbourg terror attack. dent cannot be indicted when in office. In August 2016 the parent company used surrogates to make represent his transformation,” Mr Despite mounting political and “We realise that the forces of law and Democrats will have the power to begin of the National Enquirer newspaper Stormy Daniels was donations in the hope of Osanna said, adding: “It’s an amazing police pressure to wind down the pro- order must focus on critical points dur- impeachment proceedings in the new reached a $150,000 deal to pay paid hush money buying influence over US find — there are few depictions of tests — and an emergency £9 billion ing the Christmas period,” he said. year — a political trial in Congress — McDougal, the former Playboy model, days before the vote policy. A coiled snake Orion in the classical world and never at the foot with the scorpion as a constellation.” of the mosaic The floor mosaic was found during represents digs that have turned up stunning Waiters act quickly to save lives President could appoint first female chief of staff the Earth. portraits and lewd graffiti. The mosaic and the house it is in date back to the Analysis to educate people on restaurants followed David Charter from . Ms was born in and senior adviser. The favourite was a different role. Two Trump loyalists, 2nd century BC, suggesting that it was how to deal with a the advice, no doubt to Chinese parents before com- Nick Ayers, 36, chief of staff to Mike Steve Mnuchin, 55, the treasury secre- about 200 years old when the city was hen a terrorist attack since saving many lives. Elaine Chao, the first Chinese Amer- ing to America at the age of eight. Pence, the vice-president. He an- tary, and , 51, director of buried by an eruption of Mount terrorist Paris was targeted in At Le Poids Plume ican in a US cabinet, has emerged as a She served as secretary of labour nounced last weekend, however, that the office of management and budget, Vesuvius. The mosaic indicates the Wattacked 2015. The advice, waiters told the 20 or candidate to become President Trump’s under President George W Bush from he would leave the administration at are reported to have declined to be con- cultural influence on Pompeii of Strasbourg this week contained in posters so diners and 20 next chief of staff. 2001 to 2009. During the Obama ad- the end of the year to work on the sidered. Alexandria, in Egypt, Mr Osanna said. the city’s waiters put up in schools and passers-by to go into The Times understands that Ms ministration she was a fel- Trump re-election campaign. Other names still thought to be in the “Astronomy was important in acted quickly to save town halls, was sent to the basement. They Chao, 65, would be the first woman to low at the Heritage Mr Trump said on Tuesday that he running include David Bossie, 53, the Alexandria and they thought Orion diners and passers-by restaurants in the city drew the curtains, hold the role of presidential gatekeep- Foundation, a conserv- was considering “over ten” names. On former Trump campaign adviser, Matt- was the brightest constellation, which (Adam Sage in Paris by the local branch of turned off the lights er if chosen to succeed John Kelly, ative . Wednesday one of those in the frame, hew Whitaker, 49, the acting attorney- is why in the mosaic he is being lit by writes). the hotel, restaurant and waited to be told the retired US Marines general who Her name has , 59, a congressman, general, , 68, the energy sec- a torch carried by a winged creature, Doors were shut, and bar owners’ it was safe to leave leaves at the end of the year after 17 emerged during a said that he was “fully committed” to retary, and , 71, the who is indicating the way to the lights were turned off union. until after midnight. turbulent months. chaotic process that serving the people of North Carolina in trade representative. stars,” he said. and hundreds of The advice was “It was a natural The White House chief of staff has seen several people the House, where he leads the arch- In an interview on Thursday, Mr Cultural and commercial links people were taken simple: escape if you instinct for the staff controls access to the president and withdraw from the run- conservative Freedom Caucus. Trump said he wanted a chief of staff between Alexandria and Pompeii into the basements can and hide if you here to do that,” said tries to ensure the smooth ning. The speculation has By Thursday Mr Trump said he had who was “strong” and “thinks like I do”. were strong, possibly thanks to trade and rear rooms of cannot, lock doors Marilyne Lefebvre, running of the West Wing. included , 37, whittled his list down to five finalists. Paul Begala, 57, a former adviser to flowing through the free port on the bars and restaurants. and keep away from the owner. “We are a Ms Chao, who is transpor- Mr Trump’s son-in-law , 56, the former governor President Clinton, said: “He needs to Greek island of Delos, Mr Osanna The response is windows. As Chérif service industry and tation secretary, is married of New Jersey, met the president before draw the cameras and the Congress said. “This mosaic speaks to us of the seen as a consequence Chekatt shot shoppers we are on the ground to Mitch McConnell, the Elaine Chao was born asking to be removed from considera- attention away from investigation and ties across the Mediterranean then.” of government efforts on Tuesday, dozens of all the time.” Senate majority leader to Chinese parents tion. He is thought to be holding out for on to legislation.”