“President Trump aired a litany of grievances on Tuesday, claiming he has a ‘stacked deck’ against him in 2020, putting down his top aide’s husband as a ‘total loser’ and renewing his attacks on the late Sen. John McCain,” Politico reports.

“The comments capped another eyebrow-raising few days for Trump, even by the standards of a man who has regularly flouted the conventions of the presidency. On Sunday alone, Trump sent out 29 tweets and retweets that touched on everything from General Motors to his media criticism of Fox News — a consequence, people close to him say, of another isolated weekend in the White House.”

Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) called President Trump and his family “the greatest threats to democracy of my lifetime,” saying Congress needed to do more to respond to the president’s attempts to undermine American institutions, NBC News reports.

Said Clyburn: “Adolf Hitler was elected chancellor of Germany. And he went about the business of discrediting institutions to the point that people bought into’ it… Nobody would have believed it now. But swastikas hung in churches throughout Germany. We had better be very careful.”

Associated Press: “With Robert Mueller’s findings expected any day, the president has grown increasingly confident the report will produce what he insisted all along — no clear evidence of a conspiracy between Russia and his 2016 campaign. And Trump and his advisers are considering how to weaponize those possible findings for the 2020 race.”

“A change is underway as well among congressional Democrats, who have long believed the report would offer damning evidence against the president. The Democrats are busy building new avenues for evidence to come out, opening a broad array of investigations of Trump’s White House and businesses that go far beyond Mueller’s focus on Russian interference to help Trump beat Democrat Hillary Clinton.”

Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara told MSNBC that he considered taping a phone call with President Trump after the president made an “odd” request of him.

Said Bharara: “We actually considered—and it sounds not as crazy as it did back then cause now we know about Michael Cohen recording the president, and Omarosa recording the president—we considered taping the president in that phone call.”

Bharara also said he believed that Deputy Attorney General Rob Rosenstein was “not joking” when he suggested wearing a recording device to secretly tape Trump when he visited the White House.

“Robert Mueller’s prosecutors dropped yet another head-scratching signal in their latest court filing Tuesday that the special counsel investigation may be wrapping up — or maybe it’s not,” CNN reports.

“Either way, they’re very busy.”

“Senior appellate litigator Michael Dreeben told a federal judge on Tuesday that he and his co-counsel ‘face the press of other work’ and would like a deadline extension this week in response to a request to unseal court documents in Paul Manafort’s now-wrapped criminal case.”

Patti Davis, the daughter of the late President Ronald Reagan, told Yahoo News that her father would be “horrified” by the state of the U.S. and the Republican Party under President Trump.

Said Davis: “I think he would be horrified. I think he would be heartbroken — because he loved this country a lot and he believed in this country.”

“I’m going to be there til he tweets me out of office.”

— Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, quoted by CNN, when asked how long he plans on staying in the role.

Washington Post: “Federal judges have ruled against the Trump administration at least 63 times over the past two years, an extraordinary record of legal defeat that has stymied large parts of the president’s agenda on the environment, immigration and other matters.”

“In case after case, judges have rebuked Trump officials for failing to follow the most basic rules of governance, including providing legitimate explanations for shifts in policy, supported by facts and, where required, public input.”

“A three-judge U.S. appeals court panel signaled sympathy toward President Donald Trump on Tuesday in his appeal in a Democratic-backed lawsuit that accuses him of violating anti-corruption provisions of the U.S. Constitution with his Washington hotel,” Reuters reports.

“The judges on the Richmond, Virginia-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals indicated they may dismiss the lawsuit filed against the Republican president in June 2017 by the Democratic attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia.”

“Maryland-based U.S. District Judge Peter Messitte last year allowed the lawsuit to proceed, a ruling that Trump appealed to the 4th Circuit. All three of the judges who heard the appeal were appointed by Republican presidents.”