Attorney John Coale speaks next to President Donald Trump at Trump golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. REUTERS

Envoy’s exchanging words

Last week, newspapers reported , “Prisoner swap in Eastern Europe frees 10 people, including accused spies.” The story credited “President Trump’s envoy for Belarus, John Coale, who helped negotiate the exchange.”

Insiders — like way inside the White House — they know lawyer John Coale. Me, I know John Coale. It was dinners, evenings, boat rides, his newswoman wife Greta Van Susteren, mutual friends such as journalist Elaine Lafferty. A nonsmoker, conversation included his — and only due to him — late ’90s $368 billion settlement which he himself won from the tobacco industry.

He was special. Smart. A born Democrat, a Trump friend, also a Trump lawyer. Title? Deputy assistant to the president. He became special envoy for Belarus.…