Watch for my next commentary on Friday…There’ll be lots to say. I’ll provide more details on what just happened, where in separate courtrooms almost simultaneously, two key members of Trump’s campaign staff were convicted of multiple felonies. The president’s men were behind the 8-ball! Trump’s former campaign chairman was declared guilty by a jury of 8 counts of tax & bank fraud, while Trump’s former personal lawyer pleaded guilty to 8 counts of tax fraud & campaign finance violations.
A key admission to the Cohen plea was he confessed under oath his campaign finance crimes paying two women hush money just prior to the election, came at the direction of a candidate for federal office. Cohen was referring to the GOP presidential nominee, Donald J. Trump. So now we know the current President of the United States has been implicated as an unindicted co-conspirator to felony campaign finance violations.
When the history books are written on the Russia scandal, Tuesday, August 21st will go down as a pivotal day. We’re in all likelihood witnessing the beginning to the end of this presidency. For those of us who follow politics, this whole Russiagate episode is far beyond anything else we’ve ever seen before. As this unbelievable chapter in our political history plays out, not even all his lies can keep saving him with some parts of his base. Until we send out the next 3-part message on Friday, here are several articles from the newsfeeds detailing these bombshell headlines you could do a search to find:
Cohen
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/402909-cohen-says-he-violated-campaign-finance-law-at-direction-of-candidate
http://thehill.com/regulation/administration/402906-cohen-pleads-guilty-to-federal-charges
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/08/21/why-cohen-plea-deal-is-bad-trump-it-puts-him-very-close-an-actual-crime/?utm_term=.c05a3256ef00
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trumps-longtime-lawyer-michael-cohen-is-in-plea-discussions-with-federal-prosecutors-according-to-a-person-familiar-with-the-matter/2018/08/21/5fbd7f34-8510-11e8-8553-a3ce89036c78_story.html?utm_term=.134075d07793
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/08/21/michael-cohen-trumps-greatest-fear-comes-true/?utm_term=.d2c441870dd9
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/an-alleged-co-conspirator-in-the-white-house/2018/08/21/a23e3558-a589-11e8-8fac-12e98c13528d_story.html?utm_term=.2bc5511c85c5
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/08/21/how-the-campaign-finance-charges-against-michael-cohen-may-implicate-trump/?utm_term=.229ba79eee0e
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/nyregion/michael-cohen-plea-deal-trump.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=span-ab-top-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/michael-cohen-plea-deal_us_5ad20bd8e4b0edca2cba4685
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-cohen/former-trump-lawyer-cohen-discussing-plea-deal-with-u-s-prosecutors-nbc-news-idUSKCN1L61PD
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/michael-cohen-guilty-plea-trump-campaign-finance/568054/
https://www.businessinsider.com/michael-cohen-plea-deal-prosecutors-trump-2018-8
https://www.salon.com/2018/08/21/michael-cohen-trumps-former-fixer-strikes-tentative-plea-deal-with-federal-prosecutors-reports/
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-ex-attorney-michael-cohen-accepts-plea-deal?ref=home
https://www.thedailybeast.com/senate-intel-we-re-engaged-michael-cohen-after-report-he-knew-about-trump-tower-meeting?ref=home
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/08/cohen-pleads-guilty-to-fraud-campaign-finance-violations.html
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/michael-cohen-and-the-end-stage-of-the-trump-presidency
https://www.vox.com/2018/8/21/17765954/michael-cohen-trump-stormy-daniels-hush-money-sdny
https://www.vox.com/2018/8/21/17765566/michael-cohen-plea-deal-trump-mueller
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/21/michael-cohen-strikes-plea-deal-with-prosecutors-790646
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/08/21/michael-cohen-former-trump-lawyer-feds-reach-plea-deal/1053562002/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/08/21/michael-cohen-deal-puts-trump-serious-legal-risk-experts-say/1054480002/
https://www.apnews.com/74aaf72511d64fceb1d64529207bde64/Cohen-pleads-guilty,-implicates-Trump-in-hush-money-scheme
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a22792950/michael-cohen-plead-guilty-paul-manafort-guilty/
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/08/michael-cohen-plea-deal-pleads-guilty-to-campaign-finance-violations-tax-evasion-and-more.html
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/08/michael-cohen-cooperation-deal-he-doesnt-have-one-he-still-might-end-up-cooperating.html
https://thinkprogress.org/michael-cohen-says-trump-directed-hush-money-payments-6c7b4bd5e4a3/
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/08/michael-cohen-pleads-guilty-trump-1/
http://time.com/5373301/michael-cohen-plea-deal/
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/08/donald-trump-directed-him-to-commit-a-crime-michael-cohen-nails-the-casket-shut-on-his-former-boss#~o
https://investigaterussia.org/media/2018-08-21/cohen-pleads-guilty
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/watergate-prosecutor-this-makes-trump-an-unindicted-co-conspirator/
https://www.mediaite.com/online/chuck-todd-this-could-be-most-consequential-day-of-the-trump-presidency/
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/8/21/1789914/-Let-s-be-clear-Trump-paid-off-his-affairs-for-purposes-of-influencing-the-election
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/8/21/1789932/-NYT-conservative-columnist-Bret-Stephens-calls-for-impeachment-Trump-clearly-guilty-of-high-crimes
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/8/21/1789945/-John-Dean-We-have-learned-that-we-have-a-criminal-President-of-the-United-States-He-Should-Know
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/8/21/1789938/-Michael-Cohen-s-Plea-Deal-Very-Bad-For-Trump-Puts-Him-Closer-To-An-Actual-Crime
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/8/21/1789953/-The-President-of-the-United-States-is-an-unindicted-co-conspirator
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/8/21/1789900/-Trump-became-president-by-criminal-conspiracy-Let-that-sink-in
https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/news/cohen-lawyer-he-has-info-of-interest-on-trump/vi-BBMgo5b?ocid=spartandhp
Manafort
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/402125-manafort-guilty
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/08/21/it-could-be-trumps-worst-day-ever-manafort-guilty-on-eight-counts/?utm_term=.81f53d0b8f97
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/manafort-lost-mueller-won/2018/08/21/fe5fe94c-a234-11e8-83d2-70203b8d7b44_story.html?utm_term=.435878e0cd7e
https://www.salon.com/2018/08/21/paul-manaforts-jury-looks-to-be-stuck-on-one-criminal-charge/
https://www.vox.com/2017/8/29/16211784/manafort-charges-trial-trump-pardon-power
http://time.com/5369058/paul-manafort-trial-verdict/
https://investigaterussia.org/media/2018-08-21/manafort-found-guilty
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/08/21/paul-manafort-verdict/995713002/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/08/21/paul-manafort-verdict-robert-mueller-builds-credibility-editorials-debates/997090002/
Both
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/08/21/manafort-cohen-facing-jail-time-donald-trump-endures-dark-day/1050438002/
https://www.apnews.com/2ea2cc7ef8da4205beb47f6621a2d91d/After-Cohen’s-guilty-plea,-Trump-attacks-Manafort-conviction
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/after-two-convictions-pressure-mounts-on-trump/2018/08/21/94e5dae0-a58a-11e8-97ce-cc9042272f07_story.html?utm_term=.140d7abe00b0
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/opinion/manafort-cohen-guilty.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion&action=click&contentCollection=opinion®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront
https://www.axios.com/trump-mueller-investigation-paul-manafort-michael-cohen-196685de-dda3-4903-a08f-0aeda74ad419.html
https://www.axios.com/tracking-russia-investigation-mueller-trump-718bc918-984b-4df1-b1a0-5dafff0347b3.html
http://thehill.com/homenews/media/402927-drudge-report-calls-manafort-cohen-news-trump-hell-hour
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/08/trump-paul-manafort-michael-cohen-surrounded-by-criminals-reelection.html
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tariniparti/trump-michael-cohen-paul-manafort-court?bfsplash&utm_term=4ldqpho
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/8/21/1789892/-Manafort-Guilty-Cohen-Guilty-And-Trump-Guilty?detail=emaildkbn
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/8/21/1789901/-The-Manafort-and-Cohen-convictions-show-the-GOP-is-corrupt-to-the-core-Time-to-boot-them-all-out?detail=emaildkbn
Others
https://www.apnews.com/9f82c41291f74ce1a1cbebad34454541/Michael-Flynn-not-yet-ready-to-be-sentenced,-prosecutors-say
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/christopher-steeles-victory-in-a-dc-court/568057/
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