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Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
The Mueller Investigation Nears the Worst Case Scenario  —  WE ARE DEEP into the worst case scenarios.  But as new sentencing memos for Trump associates Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen make all too clear, the only remaining question is how bad does the actual worst case scenario get?
Discussion: The Week and Althouse
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New York Times:
Is This the Beginning of the End for Trump?  —  Sentencing memos reveal damning evidence about collusion and campaign finance violations.  —  Mr. Berke is a lawyer specializing in white-collar criminal defense.  Mr. Bookbinder is a former federal corruption prosecutor.
Lawfare:
‘Totally Clears the President’?  What Those Cohen and Manafort Filings Really Say  —  President Trump responded to today's filings from federal prosecutors in the cases of Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort with a Twitter cry of triumph: … Don't spend a lot of time looking through …
Mikhaila Fogel / Lawfare:
Document: Special Counsel's Office Files Submission in Support of Breach Determination in Manafort Case  —  Today, the Special Counsel's Office filed a submission in support of its determination that Paul Manafort allegedly breached his plea agreement.  The filing is available here and below:
Discussion: Washington Monthly
David French / National Review:
The Special Counsel's Cohen Sentencing Brief Is Ominous for Trump  —  Friday evening, the Special Counsel's Office and the Southern District of New York filed three key documents: two sentencing memos for former Trump attorney Michael Cohen and a sentencing memo for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
Adam Rawnsley / The Daily Beast:
Mueller: Manafort Lied About Contacts With Trump Officials  —  Trump's ex-campaign chairman allegedly contacted someone to get them to 'speak with an Administration official on Manafort's behalf.'  —  Former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort lied to prosecutors about direct contacts …
Just Security:
Mueller's Roadmap: Major Takeaways from Cohen and Manafort Filings  —  Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York (SDNY) and from the Office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller filed significant documents in the criminal cases of President Donald Trump's former personal attorney …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Department of Justice Calls Donald Trump a Felon  —  Federal prosecutors released sentencing recommendations for two alleged criminals who worked closely with Donald Trump: his lawyer Michael Cohen, and campaign manager Paul Manafort.  They are filled with damning details.
Washington Post:
New Mueller filing says Trump's ex-lawyer Michael Cohen was in touch with a Russian seeking ‘political synergy’ with campaign  —  BREAKING NEWS: The unidentified Russian said that a meeting between Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin could have a “phenomenal” impact …
Discussion: HuffPost, Townhall and The Atlantic
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Read the two Michael Cohen sentencing memos  —  Special counsel Robert Mueller and federal prosecutors in New York have each submitted sentencing memos for President Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen, after Cohen pleaded guilty in two different cases related to his work for Trump and the Trump Organization.
Michael Balsamo / Associated Press:   Prosecutors: Illegal hush-money paid at Trump's ‘direction’
Washington Post:
Mueller says Manafort told ‘discernible lies,’ …
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Mueller Weaves Trump, Manafort and Cohen Ever Closer
Discussion: National Review, NPR and CNN
The Daily Beast:
Michael Cohen Was Paid More Than $4 Million by Promising Access to Trump, Prosecutors Say
Discussion: CNBC, Mediaite and Hit & Run
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Dershowitz Says Michael Cohen Sentencing Memo Sends Message: Don't Cooperate With Mueller
Discussion: Law & Crime
Adam Rawnsley / The Daily Beast:
Cohen: Russian Promised Trump ‘Political Synergy’ in 2015
Discussion: Breitbart
Washington Post:   New Mueller filing says Trump's ex-lawyer Michael Cohen was in touch with a Russian seeking …
NBC News:   Michael Cohen assisted Mueller's office with info about contacts between Trump aides and Russia
CNN:
Ex-FBI Director James Comey exasperated after closed-door interview on Capitol Hill  —  (CNN)Former FBI Director James Comey, after facing aggressive questioning from members of Congress on Friday, expressed exasperation that he had been dragged to a private setting on Capitol Hill …
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Associated Press:
House GOP unhappy with Comey's answers behind closed doors
Discussion: Shareblue Media
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Nadler: I'm ending investigation into FBI, DOJ when I become chairman
Discussion: Breitbart
New York Times:
Mattis Erupts Over Niger Inquiry and Army Revisits Who Is to Blame  —  WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis was livid last month when he summoned top military officials to a video conference at the Pentagon to press them about an investigation into a 2017 ambush in Niger that killed four Americans on a Green Beret team.
Discussion: Task & Purpose
Washington Post:
Self-professed neo-Nazi James A. Fields Jr. convicted of first-degree murder in car-ramming that killed one, injured dozens  —  CHARLOTTESVILLE — An avowed supporter of neo-Nazi beliefs who took part in the violent and chaotic white supremacist “Unite the Right” rally in this city last year …
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CNN:
VA secretary praised Confederate president as a “martyr to ‘The Lost Cause’” in 1995 speech  —  (CNN)Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie praised Confederate States President Jefferson Davis effusively in a 1995 speech, calling him a “martyr to ‘The Lost Cause’” and an “exceptional man in an exceptional age.”
Nick Ochsner / Popular Information:
Vice Chair of Bladen County Board of Elections abruptly resigns  —  The election scandal engulfing North Carolina's 9th district, where Republican Mark Harris leads Democrat Dan McCready by 905 votes, took an unusual turn on Friday night.  Jens Lutz, the Vice Chair of the Bladen County Board …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Trump leans on McConnell to vote on criminal justice reform  —  President Donald Trump pressured Senate Majority Leader Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Friday to pass criminal justice reform, hoping to push a reluctant McConnell to put it on the floor during a crowded lame duck session.
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Associated Press:   McConnell blocks sentencing bill, upsetting Grassley, GOP
Christina Cauterucci / Slate:
I'm So Sorry to Report that Ted Cruz's New Beard Looks Great  —  I have no particular fondness for this subject and it brings me no pleasure to cover it.  But as a truth-seeking journalist, I feel I must write what follows: Sen. Ted Cruz's new beard looks great.
Discussion: Althouse
Dana Carvey / New York Times:
Dana Carvey Remembers George Bush, From Muse to Friend  —  Late on Nov. 8, 1988, the phone rang.  I answered, and a familiar voice said: “Well, congratulations.  You won.”  —  “I won?  What do you mean I won?”  —  “Bush won, so you won,” he answered.  —  “Jon?”  —  “YES, it's me!  JON LOVITZ!
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Hugh Hewitt / Washington Post:   A week to push back against America's steady creep toward cruelty
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Eric Trump Weighs In on Kellyanne Conway's Husband.  He Doesn't Like Him.  —  WASHINGTON — George Conway, a prominent conservative lawyer, is married to Kellyanne Conway, a White House counselor well known to cable viewers as a passionate defender of President Trump.
Mairead McArdle / National Review:
Virginia Teacher Fired after Refusing to Call Trans Student by Preferred Pronoun  —  A Virginia high-school teacher was fired on Thursday after refusing to address a transgender student by the student's preferred pronoun.  —  The school board of the West Point Consolidated School District …
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Jack Crowe / National Review:
Academic Stabbed to Death for ‘Insulting Mohammed’ During Lecture  —  An Irish lecturer was stabbed to death by a student outside the Paris university where he taught on Wednesday for allegedly insulting the prophet Mohammed by displaying a drawing of him during class.
 
 
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