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NBC NEWS ANALYSIS: Two of the president's former associates were in court Tuesday. Both guilty of multiple felonies. What happened to draining the swamp? There hasn't been a darker moment for a president - or for the presidency - since Richard Nixon resigned on the verge of impeachment in 1974. On Tuesday, Michael Cohen, the president's longtime fixer and former personal lawyer, pleaded guilty to felony crimes that included illegally paying women hush money to help Donald Trump win the presidency in 2016. Most important, he said he did so at Trump's direction. In other words, Trump cheated to win...

Let’s stipulate that there are competing choruses taking to the risers. One will sing loudly that every rotten thing critics have been spouting about President Trump must be true now that Paul Manafort is a convicted felon and Michael Cohen has struck a plea deal. On the other stage, Trump supporters will spin that the fall of two shady characters is no great stain on the president, and that in fact this is another occasion containing no evidence of Russian election collusion. So, on the first full day of digesting an explosive day of court action, what are the ramifications...

The Senate should halt its consideration of President Trump's Supreme Court nominee after Tuesday's guilty verdicts against former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and guilty pleas from former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, Democrats insisted late Tuesday. Democrats have long argued that Republicans are trying to rush Trump's pick, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, through the Senate confirmation process. But Tuesday's surprising verdict and guilty pleas — along with Cohen's claim that Trump instructed him to violate campaign finance laws — gave Democrats a new way to justify a complete halt to Kavanaugh's consideration. "A president who's also an unindicted co-conspirator should not...

Mark Levin 1 hr · Bill Kristol is a clown. Manafort’s and Flynn’s legal issues have nothing to do with Trump. And Cohen’s plea bargain results from Cohen’s tax evasion. The campaign violations are baloney and Were not adjudicated. Kristol’s pomposity and hate for Trump are boundless.------------ Bill Kristol on Twitter “Just spitballing here, but if Flynn is guilty, and Manafort’s guilty, and Cohen’s guilty...maybe Trump’s guilty?” TWITTER.COM

Tonight is a big night for the left. You know the drill already: “Drumpf isfinished” and similar liberal palaver. They never learn. I have bad news for never-Trumpers though: everything is yet another juicy nothing-burger, as in: Manafort was found guilty for stuff he did years ago, when he was not working for Trump; nothing to do with Russia collusion, but basically bank fraud/tax evasion charges. Period. Full stop. Part deux: Trump’s shyster lawyer Cohen (who by the way enters history as the first shyster lawyer to admit of recording his client) pleaded guilty for campaign finance violations, and that’s...

Meanwhile, all turncoat Michael Cohen managed to do today was to drive Omarosa off the front page The timing of today’s MSM headlines ‘MANAFORT GUILTY!,’COHEN: “I’M GUILTY” tells the entire tawdry tale of failed attempts of dirty Democrat electioneering. The Progressive-Left, who populate the corrupt Deep State think they’ve cornered President Donald J. Trump in time for Nov. 6 Midterm Elections with a twofer.

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My heart is broken in a hundred pieces. Americans, "ALL" you better wake up and look at reality. Paul Manafort & Michael Cohen mean nothing, Robert Mueller means even less. But....someone, a young, smart, beautiful and innocent young lady matters, big time in the big picture of life. Her name was Mollie Tibbetts, she lived in a small town in Iowa and was brutally assaulted and murdered by a Mexican Illegal and then her young body was buried in a corn field. Is this the America you want? This is what the Democrat Party wants to be an everyday event!!!...

Verdicts on only 8 counts

ury in Paul Manafort financial fraud trial says it's reached a verdict on 8 counts, but remains undecided on 10 others. The jury in the financial fraud trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort suggested to the judge Tuesday that it was stuck on at least one count in the case. Jurors asked U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III on their fourth day of deliberations how they should fill out the verdict form if they were unable to reach consensus on a single count, though they did not suggest what charge was at issue. The jury of six men...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — The Latest on the Paul Manafort trial (all times local): 11:45 a.m. The jury in the financial fraud trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort wants to know what to do if it cannot reach a consensus for a single count in the case. Jurors posed the question to U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III on their fourth day of deliberations. They also said they would need a new verdict form.

Judge T. S. Ellis III said he would call the jury into the courtroom to reply to its question. The jury’s note to Judge Ellis asked: “If we cannot reach a consensus on a single count, how should we fill out the verdict sheet?” It went on to ask what the issue would “mean for the final verdict?”

The jury in the criminal trial against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on Tuesday sent a note to the judge asking what they should do if they can't come to a consensus on a single count. The note suggests that the jury is having difficulty coming to a conclusion on at least one of the 18 counts facing Manafort, though it does not mean they have not come to conclusions on other counts. Federal District Judge T.S. Ellis III reconvened the court shortly before 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, saying that the jury had sent the note. The jurors asked what...

After three days of deliberations, the jury still had not reached a verdict on Monday evening, marking day 15 of the tax evasion and bank fraud case against Paul Manafort. The jurors will reconvene Tuesday morning at 9:30 AM ET.

The two big stories this week are interrelated: the utter collapse of the Russian Collusion Fantasy and the conclusion of the Manafort case, a case of selective and apparently not very persuasive prosecution which flows from that fantasy. The Manafort Trial EndsThis week marked the end of the trial of Paul Manafort. The jury is now deliberating his fate. I cannot with certainty opine on the prosecution’s handling of the case. I can’t because all we know -- in the absence of transcripts of the trial -- is what reporters have told us. In my experience they often lack the...

Less than a week after making a stink about freedom of the press, President Trump and 'enemies of the people, CNN and apparently other news outlets have decided to get into the harassment business given that reporting news is just not good enough for them. Seriously, they tried to do this: In a motion filed in federal court on Thursday, CNN and several other media outlets requested that the court release the names and home addresses of all jurors in the Paul Manafort fraud case. Jurors haven not yet rendered a verdict on any of the 18 charges against...

Could a pardon for Paul Manafort be in the offing if he is convicted by a jury? Perhaps. The jury in the Manafort Trial has still not reached a verdict. They have adjourned until Monday. Trump was asked today about a pardon, and he said, “I don’t talk about that.” But he did go on to say it is a “disgrace” the way Manafort has been treated by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. He also affirmed Manafort as “a very good man.” We all know Mueller is only going after Manafort in order to get Trump. It’s that simple. It is...

A coalition of news outlets, including CNN, The New York Times, BuzzFeed and The Washington Post, want the federal judge presiding over the Paul Manafort trial to unseal the names and addresses of the jurors deliberating on the case. The judge, T.S. Ellis III, agreed to hear arguments about the disclosure during a hearing scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday. “A thirsty press is essential to a free county,” Ellis said in court when addressing the media companies’ motion. He also urged the news outlets, which are being represented by the firm Ballard Spahr, to appeal his decision should he rule...

US president Donald Trump defended Paul Manafort as “a good person” and declined to rule out a pardon as a jury spent Friday deliberating the fate of the former campaign chairman. “I think the whole Manafort trial is very sad,” Mr Trump told reporters on the South Lawn at the White House, before departing for a fundraiser on Long Island. “I think it’s a very sad day for our country. He happens to be a very good person, and I think it’s very sad what they’ve done to Paul Manafort.” Mr Manafort faces 18 counts of tax evasion and bank...

The jury in the criminal tax and bank fraud trial against one-time Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort signaled in a note to the judge Friday afternoon they are unlikely to reach a verdict before the weekend. In a note to Judge T.S. Ellis III, the jury said they would like to finish at 5 p.m. because one of the jurors has an event they would like to attend. Ellis said he will bring the jury back in the courtroom at ten minutes to 5 p.m. to ask what time they would like to reconvene on Monday. The jury deliberations now...