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Mueller investigation gains new momentum | TheHill

posted onAugust 23, 2018
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Special counsel MORE and guilty plea of former Trump personal lawyer Michael Cohen. Manafort’s conviction affirmed the credibility of an investigation that has endured near-daily attacks from MORE, while Cohen’s guilty plea to campaign finance violations and other charges could present the special counsel with a key witness willing to cooperate.  Neither development is directly related to Mueller’s inquiry into whether there was collusion between Trump’s campaign and Moscow.

The Memo: Team Trump fights back | TheHill

posted onAugust 23, 2018
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MORE and his allies waged war against Michael Cohen Wednesday, one day after the president’s former lawyer and fixer implicated Trump in a felony during the 2016 campaign. Cohen’s charge that he paid off two women who said they had sexual relationships with Trump — and, crucially, that he had done so at the then-candidate’s behest and with the intention of affecting the election — is reverberating across the political world. But Trump’s team is seeking to blunt the impact by taking aim at Cohen’s credibility, downplaying the seriousness of the offenses being alleged —