MESOP NEWS TODAYS SHORT CUTS & RELEVANT TWEETS / DONALD TRUMP & BERLUSCONI FRIEND GUIDO LOMBARDI

Transparency: New calls for President Trump to release his tax returns came amid furor over the White House’s decision to no longer share visitor logs.
That effectively bars the public from knowing who has access to officials, even as Mr. Trump fills top jobs with former lobbyists and consultants.
Mr. Trump’s most powerful advisers now appear to be his daughter and son-in-law, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.
Populist leaders in Europe, including Marine Le Pen, seem to have identified President Trump’s longtime neighbor, George Guido Lombardi, as a potential access point to the White House.
Mr. Lombardi said Mr. Trump has leaned on his Italian expertise, inquiring once about Silvio Berlusconi, the former prime minister, because, Mr. Lombardi said, Mr. Trump was intrigued by a “billionaire who became a politician.”