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Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Michael Cohen paid a mysterious tech company $50,000 ‘in connection with’ Trump's campaign — President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, made a previously unreported payment of $50,000 to a tech company in connection with Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
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David Klepper / Associated Press:
New York state subpoenas Cohen in Trump Foundation probe — ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Investigators in New York state have issued a subpoena to Michael Cohen as part of their criminal probe into the Trump Foundation. — A spokesman for Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's tax department confirmed …
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John Podhoretz / Commentary Magazine:
10 Things I Hate About What's Just Happened — After “the information” regarding Michael Cohen's guilty pleas stated flatly that Cohen had been directed to violate campaign finance law by Donald Trump, you can put the Russia probe aside for a moment and consider the many possible meanings of what Cohen has done:
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Lanny Davis / gofundme.com:
Michael Cohen Truth Fund — $56,242 of $500,000 goal Raised by 1,502 people in 15 hours — On July 2, 2018, Michael Cohen declared his independence from Donald Trump and his commitment to tell the truth. — On August 21, Michael Cohen made the decision to take legal responsibility and to continue his commitment to tell the truth.
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Shannon Pettypiece / Bloomberg:
Trump Didn't Consult McGahn About Hush-Money Payments, Source Says — President Donald Trump didn't consult his campaign finance lawyer Don McGahn about hush-money payments that were made days before the election and are now the center of a criminal case, a person familiar with the matter said.
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NBC News:
The party of ‘Lock her up!’ faces a choice: Defend Trump or investigate? — First Read is your briefing from “Meet the Press” and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter. — WASHINGTON — For a candidate whose supporters cried, “Lock her up! …
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Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
In Trump's right-wing media universe, it was a day like any other — It's Tuesday afternoon. Imagine, for a moment, that President Trump logs on to Twitter. News is breaking that could prove existential for his presidency. But his social media feed hardly records the magnitude of the developments.
Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
Six Big Questions After the Cohen and Manafort Bombshells — THE HOUR OF 4 pm Tuesday, potentially one of the most consequential hours in the history of the American presidency, made clear that history books will almost certainly note Donald Trump's surprise 2016 election win with an asterisk.
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Lanny Davis: Michael Cohen ‘Never Went To Prague’ As Steele Dossier Claims — Michael Cohen's lawyer dropped a bombshell on Wednesday, saying that Cohen has not been to Prague — The Steele dossier alleges that Cohen traveled to Prague during the campaign to collude with Russians
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
In Fox interview, Trump seems to confess a campaign finance violation while trying to deny it
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NBC News:
In case of Mueller firing, break glass: Democrats prep an emergency plan
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Mark Penn / The Hill:
Cohen's plea deal is prosecutor's attempt to set up Trump
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump says hush money ‘not a campaign violation’
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Max Boot / Washington Post:
Trump is an illegitimate president whose election is tainted by fraud
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Axios:
GOP fears Cohen set road to impeachment
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Politico:
‘It is what it is’: Republicans shrug off Trump's legal meltdown
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
This is the moment all of Trump's anti-media rhetoric has been working toward
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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
6 Takeaways About Paul Manafort And Michael Cohen's Legal Woes
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Dems use ‘co-conspirator’ Trump line to attack Kavanaugh
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Denies Directing Cohen to Break Campaign-Finance Laws
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Colin Dwyer / NPR:
Michael Cohen's Lawyer Says His Client Would Never Accept Pardon From ‘Corrupt’ Trump
Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:
Why Michael Cohen's campaign finance crimes were more serious than the Obama campaign's infraction
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump Learns the Cost of One-Way Loyalty
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
What to Make of the Cohen Plea and Manafort Convictions
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Jason Clayworth / Des Moines Register:
Mollie Tibbetts' accused killer is in Iowa legally, his lawyer says, calling Trump ‘sad and sorry’ for weighing in — A court document filed Wednesday morning states that the man accused of killing Mollie Tibbetts was working legally in Iowa. — Cristhian Bahena Rivera was charged Tuesday …
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Katie Mettler / Washington Post:
Mollie Tibbetts's suspected killer, in the U.S. illegally, told investigators about her final moments
Benny Arthur Johnson:
I promised myself I would stay off of politics while on vacation.
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Axios
Des Moines Register:
Cristhian Rivera, charged in Mollie Tibbetts' death, worked at a farm owned by a prominent Iowa Republican family
Dara Lind / Vox:
Mollie Tibbetts's family doesn't want her death politicized. Trump is doing it anyway.
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Carrie Dann / NBC News:
Poll: Democrat O'Rourke trails Ted Cruz by just four percentage points in Texas — O'Rourke has 45 percent support among registered voters compared with Cruz's 49 percent; Abbott leads governors' contest by 19 — WASHINGTON — As Texas Democrats attempt to win a major statewide contest …
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Democrats maintain lead in race for House — Democrats are in a strong position for the midterms, according to the latest Fox News poll. — Several findings point to the potential for a blue map in November: — President Trump's job rating remains underwater.
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Political Wire
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Poll: Trump trails several Democratic prospects in 2020 match-up — The 2020 presidential election is still more than 800 days away, but a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll shows President Donald Trump with paltry levels of support when matched up with nearly a dozen would-be Democratic opponents.
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Jermaine Ong / KGTV-TV:
San Diego Congressman Duncan Hunter addresses federal indictment in 10News interview — SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) told 10News that he's innocent of accusations of campaign funding misuse one day after he and his wife Margaret were indicted by a federal grand jury.
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The San Diego Union-Tribune / sandiegouniontribune.com:
Rep. Duncan Hunter, do the honorable thing. Resign.
Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
Kimberly Guilfoyle was once half of a liberal power couple. Now she's basically a Trump. — In the summer of 2004, the new mayor and first lady of San Francisco were photographed for an eight-page spread in Harper's Bazaar. Gavin Newsom wore a thousand-dollar tuxedo …
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TMZ.com:
Asia Argento and 17-Year-Old Boy in Bed in Sexual Encounter — Asia Argento says she did not have sex with then 17-year-old Jimmy Bennett, but a photo and various text messages between Argento and a friend tell a very different story ... she flat-out says she had sex with him.
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Shirley Halperin / Variety:
Steven Tyler Demands Trump Stop Playing Aerosmith Songs at Rallies — Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler is demanding President Donald Trump stop using the band's songs at rallies, like the one held at the Charleston Civic Center in West Virginia on Tuesday (August 21).
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Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
DNC calls FBI after detecting attempt to hack its voter database — (CNN)The Democratic National Committee contacted the FBI on Tuesday after it detected what it believes was the beginning of a sophisticated attempt to hack into its voter database, a Democratic source tells CNN.
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Sam Levine / HuffPost:
Georgia County Can't Support Claim It Must Close Polling Places Over Access Issues — Officials in majority-black Randolph County lack the data to back a proposal to shutter most voting spots. — Officials in a majority-black Georgia county accused of trying to close almost all polling places …
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Christopher Hooks / GQ:
Beto O'Rourke vs. Ted Cruz and the Fight for America — Down in deep-red Texas, a fresh-faced liberal named Beto O'Rourke has a shot at beating Ted Cruz. But huge as that would be, the race has grander implications: It helps explain all the giddy hopes and secret fears of Democrats everywhere.
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