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What a major buzzkill it must be to find out your friends think everything you’ve been talking about for two years regarding President Donald Trump “won’t matter politically.” But that’s exactly what happened when MSNBC’s Chris Hayes asked his friends about all the Cohen-Manafort news yesterday. He’s “impervious,” Hayes’ friends said. “Nothing that happens matters”:Chris Hayes ‏ Verified account @chrislhayes Follow Follow @chrislhayes More Interesting takeaway from discussing yesterday's news with friends who are not news/politics junkies: a pervasive sense that nothing that happens matters to the Trump's fortunes, that he's impervious, and that all this stuff won't matter politically....

Michael Cohen initially balked at the idea of buying the silence of a former adult-film star who says she had sex with Donald Trump, but he did an about-face after a video of Mr. Trump talking about groping women became public in October 2016. A day after the recording surfaced of outtakes of Mr. Trump speaking to a host of NBC’s “Access Hollywood,” Mr. Cohen, then Mr. Trump’s senior counsel, told a representative for the performer that he was open to a deal, according to a person familiar with the conversation. Within days, Stormy Daniels, whose given name is Stephanie...

Omarosa has renewed rumors that there is a tape of Trump using the N-word while he was on ‘The Apprentice.’ There have long been rumors of a tape showing Donald Trump saying the N-word, but one New York Times columnist thinks this could actually be a boost for Trump among his supporters if it did exist and were to be released. This week, ousted White House adviser Omarosa Manigault Newman has been sharing all manner of dirt from her time in the Trump administration, including repeating claims that Trump is on tape using racist language while he was on The...