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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.
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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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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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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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Axios:
GOP fears Cohen set road to impeachment — Impeachment proceedings against President Trump went from a theoretical danger to a vivid reality with yesterday's guilty plea by former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, sources close to the White House tell Axios. — The big picture: Cohen's guilty plea …
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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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Mark Penn / The Hill:
Cohen's plea deal is prosecutor's attempt to set up Trump — Here we go, from Russia with love to campaign finance with love. — Why was Michael Cohen investigated? Because the “Steele dossier” had him making secret trips to meet with Russians that never happened, so his business dealings got …
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Colin Dwyer / NPR:
Michael Cohen's Lawyer Says His Client Would Never Accept Pardon From ‘Corrupt’ Trump — Less than a day after Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to eight counts in a federal court — ranging from tax evasion to campaign finance violations — Trump's longtime attorney and fixer is downplaying the possibility of a pardon.
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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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Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump says hush money ‘not a campaign violation’ — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump (all times local): — President Donald Trump is defending the hush money payments made by his former attorney Michael Cohen to a pair of women, insisting …
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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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NBC News:
In case of Mueller firing, break glass: Democrats prep an emergency plan
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Joe Tacopino / New York Post:
Cohen willing to tell Mueller about ‘conspiracy to collude’: lawyer
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Max Boot / Washington Post:
Trump is an illegitimate president whose election is tainted by fraud
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump Learns the Cost of One-Way Loyalty
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Emily Birnbaum / The Hill:
Cummings calls for Oversight hearing with Cohen
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New York Sun:
The President in a Vise — From President Trump's point of view …
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
What to Make of the Cohen Plea and Manafort Convictions
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CNN:
The Cohen-Manafort fallout … GO DEEPER — How Trump World …
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Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Trump's company approved $420,000 in payments to Cohen, relying on ‘sham’ invoices, prosecutors say
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David Crook / DCReport.org:
New York Prosecutors Can Go After Trump Now, Even If Mueller Won't
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Curtis Houck / NewsBusters:
MSNBC Guest Dismisses Mollie Tibbetts as Some ‘Girl in Iowa’ ‘Fox News Is Talking About’
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Stephanie Murray / Politico:
Cohen won't accept pardon from Trump, attorney says
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Alex Horton / Washington Post:
Michael Cohen's tweet about Hillary Clinton and prison came back to haunt him. Now it's gone.
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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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Benny Arthur Johnson:
I promised myself I would stay off of politics while on vacation. I'll break that promise just once. — Mollie Tibbetts was an Iowan. She was raised not far from me. She went to the University of Iowa, just like me. Rooted for the Hawkeyes. She had hopes, dreams, a good upbringing & a loving family cheering for her future.
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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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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: GOP frets as Trump world implodes
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Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
10 of the ickiest allegations in the Duncan Hunter indictment
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Alex Gangitano / Roll Call:
Here Are the D.C. Bars in Duncan Hunter Indictment
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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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Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress:
Republicans are using federal disability law to disenfranchise minority voters
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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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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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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.
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Dems use ‘co-conspirator’ Trump line to attack Kavanaugh — Democrats launched a simultaneous attack against Donald Trump and Brett Kavanaugh on Wednesday, casting the president as a “co-conspirator” whose Supreme Court nominee has been tainted. — Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) …
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Kinling Lo / Politico:
‘Thanks Mr Trump’: Chinese state media mocks the president — This story is being published by POLITICO as part of a content partnership with the South China Morning Post. It originally appeared on scmp.com on Aug. 17, 2018. — China's biggest state broadcaster has produced a short …
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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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