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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2018/aug/21/michael-cohen-latest-live-news-updates-trump-lawyer-plea-deal-charges
We’re wrapping up the live coverage of what has been an extraordinary day in US politics. Here’s a summary of what’s happened today:
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been found guilty of bank fraud, tax fraud and failure to report a foreign bank account, which may mean he spends the rest of his life in prison.
In a separate court action in New York, former Trump personal lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to eight federal crimes on Tuesday and said Trump had directed him to make two hush-money payments to women in violation of campaign finance laws. That case was referred to New York prosecutors by Mueller.
Trump spoke at a rally in West Virginia on Tuesday night and did not refer to either Manafort or Cohen, but did hit out at the “Russian witch hunt”.
As Trump landed in West Virginia he told reporters: “Paul Manafort’s a good man” and portrayed the Manafort prosecution, which grew out of an FBI investigation predating the 2016 campaign, as an unnatural outgrowth of the investigation being carried out by special counsel Robert Mueller.
“This has nothing to do with Russian collusion,” Trump said. “These are witch hunts and it’s a disgrace. This has nothing to do – it started out looking for Russians in our campaign and there were none.”
Trump ignored shouts from reporters requesting comment on the Michael Cohen case.
Speaking to MSNBC on Tuesday night, Lanny Davis, Michael Cohen’s laywer, said: “Mr Cohen has knowledge on certain subjects that should be of interest to the special counsel and is more than happy to tell the special counsel all that he knows.” Davis said Cohen had intel about the “possibility of a conspiracy to collude and corrupt the American democracy system in the 2016 election” and also knowledge about “the computer crime of hacking and whether or not Mr Trump knew ahead of time about that crime”.
See also:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/22/worst-hour-for-trump-after-convictions-for-manafort-and-cohen
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/22/senior-republicans-hesitate-to-criticise-trump-after-manafort-and-cohen-verdicts |
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thesoretoothsayer
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| I love the alliteration of "President Pence". |
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David 
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| Pies4shaw wrote: | https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2018/aug/21/michael-cohen-latest-live-news-updates-trump-lawyer-plea-deal-charges
We’re wrapping up the live coverage of what has been an extraordinary day in US politics. Here’s a summary of what’s happened today:
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been found guilty of bank fraud, tax fraud and failure to report a foreign bank account, which may mean he spends the rest of his life in prison.
In a separate court action in New York, former Trump personal lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to eight federal crimes on Tuesday and said Trump had directed him to make two hush-money payments to women in violation of campaign finance laws. That case was referred to New York prosecutors by Mueller.
Trump spoke at a rally in West Virginia on Tuesday night and did not refer to either Manafort or Cohen, but did hit out at the “Russian witch hunt”.
As Trump landed in West Virginia he told reporters: “Paul Manafort’s a good man” and portrayed the Manafort prosecution, which grew out of an FBI investigation predating the 2016 campaign, as an unnatural outgrowth of the investigation being carried out by special counsel Robert Mueller.
“This has nothing to do with Russian collusion,” Trump said. “These are witch hunts and it’s a disgrace. This has nothing to do – it started out looking for Russians in our campaign and there were none.”
Trump ignored shouts from reporters requesting comment on the Michael Cohen case.
Speaking to MSNBC on Tuesday night, Lanny Davis, Michael Cohen’s laywer, said: “Mr Cohen has knowledge on certain subjects that should be of interest to the special counsel and is more than happy to tell the special counsel all that he knows.” Davis said Cohen had intel about the “possibility of a conspiracy to collude and corrupt the American democracy system in the 2016 election” and also knowledge about “the computer crime of hacking and whether or not Mr Trump knew ahead of time about that crime”.
See also:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/22/worst-hour-for-trump-after-convictions-for-manafort-and-cohen
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/22/senior-republicans-hesitate-to-criticise-trump-after-manafort-and-cohen-verdicts |
The prospect of Cohen informing on Trump must be pretty nerve-shattering stuff for the latter, given his role in carrying out the mafia boss's dirty deeds for decades. The stuff he must have on Trump should, at the very least, be grounds for impeachment.
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Pies4shaw
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Wokko 
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Pies4shaw
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Pies4shaw
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| Sorry, wrong thread. |
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| OK What should I have said? |
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Pies4shaw
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NASDAQ through 8000 points for the first time ever, Trumps cocking it up big time.
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| Pa Marmo wrote: | | NASDAQ through 8000 points for the first time ever, Trumps cocking it up big time. |
This is a sugar high built on massive public handouts (unfunded tax cuts and healthcare floundering), the costly short-term resuscitation of dirty old energy, uncertainty warfare targeting competitor markets (trade war threats combined with erratic foreign policy), and the abuse of sane partners who are willing to sit out the recklessness for fear of triggering much larger mutual losses — even as the economy had recovered and the Fed was stepping back.
The same flag wavers who cheered on Bush and Cheney, and who paid for two failed wars and the GFC, are gambling on a new playground thug. The silence is everyone else waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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^ Precisely! And the most infuriating thing is that Trump may well be out of office before any of those chickens come home to roost. And then the Republicans can blame the subsequent economic disaster on the Democratic administration that has to deal with it (just as Abbott blamed Rudd and Gillard for the debt levels that had been caused by the GFC and the public spending needed to make up for the years of waste under Howard and Costello), and nobody will learn a thing.
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