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'Up all night': Donald Trump is unraveling after the Cohen bombshell and it's looking far too much like Nixon's final days
Fp Staff •If someone were to write a book on how the end of this Presidency began, it would start with Trump tweeting, in all CAPS, at 1 in the morning after Cohen’s guilty plea. It’s looking more and more like the last days of Nixon, when he grew lonely and isolated and the walls closed in.
After the Michael Cohen bombshell comes this: National Enquirer hid in a safe damaging Trump stories it killed, hush money payments
•The National Enquirer kept a safe containing documents on hush money payments and other damaging stories it killed as part of its cozy relationship with Donald Trump leading up to the 2016 presidential election, people familiar with the arrangement told The Associated Press.
US midterm elections 2018: Donald Trump faces real political threats from fixers, foes, women with lawsuits and tapes
•The Russia probe. His former lawyer's records — and memory. Two women with lawsuits. A third with tapes. US president Donald Trump is facing real political threats following one electrifying hour Tuesday that brought a plea deal by his onetime lawyer, Michael Cohen, and the conviction of Paul Manafort, the former chairman of the his 2016 presidential campaign.
Does 'fixer' Michael Cohen have more dirt on Donald Trump? Lawyers say yes, 'on certain subjects of interest'
•Cohen's lawyer says the president's former "fixer" has information "on certain subjects that should be of interest" to the special prosecutor beyond his allegations made while pleading guilty Tuesday that Trump directed him to make hush-money payments to fend off damage to his White House bid.
Day after Micheal Cohen pleads guilty to campaign fraud, Donald Trump lashes out at former fixer; accuses him of making up stories
•Facing a growing threat to his presidency, US President Donald Trump lashed at his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen, a day after the onetime "fixer" implicated Trump in a campaign cover-up to buy the silence of women who said they had sexual relationships with him.
Donald Trump's legal woes mount but unlikely he'll end up in a courtroom: All you need to know after the Michael Cohen, Paul Manafort bombshells
•A bad day in court for his former associates could foreshadow hard days ahead for US President Donald Trump. But it's unlikely he'll find himself in a courtroom facing criminal charges, at least while he's president.
Michael Cohen pleads guilty, implicates Donald Trump, without naming him, as co-conspirator in campaign finance violations
•Michael Cohen, US President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer and "fixer," pleaded guilty Tuesday to campaign-finance violations and other charges, saying he and Trump arranged the payment of hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels and a former Playboy model to influence the election.
Ex Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort found guilty of 8 charges in stunning day of bad news for White House
•Paul Manafort, the longtime political operative who for months led Donald Trump's winning presidential campaign, was found guilty of eight financial crimes Tuesday in the first trial victory of the special counsel investigation into the president's associates.
Donald Trump's former lawyer and 'fixer' Michael Cohen will plead guilty to campaign finance fraud, bank fraud, tax evasion
•Two people familiar with the financial fraud investigation of Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, say he will plead guilty to federal charges including campaign finance fraud, bank fraud and tax evasion.