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2:30 PM ET, August 22, 2018

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Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
In Trump's right-wing media universe, it was a day like any other  —  It's Tuesday afternoon.  Imagine, for a moment, that President Trump logs on to Twitter.  News is breaking that could prove existential for his presidency.  But his social media feed hardly records the magnitude of the developments.
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Lanny Davis / gofundme.com:
Michael Cohen Truth Fund  —  $17,822 of $500,000 goal Raised by 377 people in 9 hours  —  On July 2, 2018, Michael Cohen declared his independence from Donald Trump and his commitment to tell the truth.  —  On August 21, Michael Cohen made the decision to take legal responsibility and to continue his commitment to tell the truth.
John Podhoretz / Commentary Magazine:
10 Things I Hate About What's Just Happened  —  After “the information” regarding Michael Cohen's guilty pleas stated flatly that Cohen had been directed to violate campaign finance law by Donald Trump, you can put the Russia probe aside for a moment and consider the many possible meanings of what Cohen has done:
Mark Penn / The Hill:
Cohen's plea deal is prosecutor's attempt to set up Trump  —  Here we go, from Russia with love to campaign finance with love.  —  Why was Michael Cohen investigated?  Because the “Steele dossier” had him making secret trips to meet with Russians that never happened, so his business dealings got …
Axios:
GOP fears Cohen set road to impeachment  —  Impeachment proceedings against President Trump went from a theoretical danger to a vivid reality with yesterday's guilty plea by former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, sources close to the White House tell Axios.  —  The big picture: Cohen's guilty plea …
Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
Six Big Questions After the Cohen and Manafort Bombshells  —  THE HOUR OF 4 pm Tuesday, potentially one of the most consequential hours in the history of the American presidency, made clear that history books will almost certainly note Donald Trump's surprise 2016 election win with an asterisk.
Colin Dwyer / NPR:
Michael Cohen's Lawyer Says His Client Would Never Accept Pardon From ‘Corrupt’ Trump  —  Less than a day after Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to eight counts in a federal court — ranging from tax evasion to campaign finance violations — Trump's longtime attorney and fixer is downplaying the possibility of a pardon.
Shannon Pettypiece / Bloomberg:
Trump Didn't Consult McGahn About Hush-Money Payments, Source Says  —  President Donald Trump didn't consult his campaign finance lawyer Don McGahn about hush-money payments that were made days before the election and are now the center of a criminal case, a person familiar with the matter said.
Discussion: Political Wire
David Crook / DCReport.org:
New York Prosecutors Can Go After Trump Now, Even If Mueller Won't
Discussion: The Atlantic and Daily Kos
New York Times:
A One-Two Punch Puts Trump Back on His Heels
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Trump's company approved $420,000 in payments to Cohen, relying on ‘sham’ invoices, prosecutors say
Jack Goldsmith / Weekly Standard:   Trump's Nuclear Option
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump Learns the Cost of One-Way Loyalty
Discussion: WORLD, CNN and BloombergQuint
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
This is the moment all of Trump's anti-media rhetoric has been working toward
Discussion: Washington Post, Axios and The Mahablog
Alex Horton / Washington Post:
Michael Cohen's tweet about Hillary Clinton and prison came back to haunt him. Now it's gone.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Townhall and Axios
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
All Eyes on the Presidency  —  Tuesday's conviction of Paul Manafort …
Discussion: PRI and Daily Kos
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
What to Make of the Cohen Plea and Manafort Convictions
Discussion: Vox, NBC News, Politico and Daily Wire
Jermaine Ong / KGTV-TV:
San Diego Congressman Duncan Hunter addresses federal indictment in 10News interview  —  SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) told 10News that he's innocent of accusations of campaign funding misuse one day after he and his wife Margaret were indicted by a federal grand jury.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: GOP frets as Trump world implodes
Alex Gangitano / Roll Call:
Here Are the D.C. Bars in Duncan Hunter Indictment
Benny Arthur Johnson:
I promised myself I would stay off of politics while on vacation.  I'll break that promise just once.  —  Mollie Tibbetts was an Iowan.  She was raised not far from me.  She went to the University of Iowa, just like me.  Rooted for the Hawkeyes.  She had hopes, dreams, a good upbringing & a loving family cheering for her future.
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Des Moines Register:
Cristhian Rivera, charged in Mollie Tibbetts' death, worked at a farm owned by a prominent Iowa Republican family  —  Cristhian Rivera, the man accused in the death of Mollie Tibbetts, worked for a Brooklyn-area farm owned by the brother of a prominent Iowa Republican.
Axios:
Republicans want to make Mollie Tibbetts a household name
Sam Levine / HuffPost:
Georgia County Can't Support Claim It Must Close Polling Places Over Access Issues  —  Officials in majority-black Randolph County lack the data to back a proposal to shutter most voting spots.  —  Officials in a majority-black Georgia county accused of trying to close almost all polling places …
Discussion: Splinter and politics.myajc
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TMZ.com:
Asia Argento and 17-Year-Old Boy in Bed in Sexual Encounter  —  Asia Argento says she did not have sex with then 17-year-old Jimmy Bennett, but a photo and various text messages between Argento and a friend tell a very different story ... she flat-out says she had sex with him.
Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
DNC calls FBI after detecting attempt to hack its voter database  —  (CNN)The Democratic National Committee contacted the FBI on Tuesday after it detected what it believes was the beginning of a sophisticated attempt to hack into its voter database, a Democratic source tells CNN.
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Dems use Trump's legal peril to attack Kavanaugh  —  Democrats launched a simultaneous attack against Donald Trump and Brett Kavanaugh on Wednesday, casting the president as a “co-conspirator” and his Supreme Court nominee as a jurist whose nomination has been tainted.
Discussion: Political Wire and Breitbart
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Emily Bazelon / New York Times:
When the Supreme Court Lurches Right
Discussion: Althouse
Tom DiChristopher / CNBC:
Saudi Arabia reportedly calls off Aramco IPO and disbands advisers  — The initial public offering was expected to be the largest ever and underpinned an ambitious plan to overhaul the Saudi economy.  —  Saudi Arabia has scrapped its plans to list shares of its state-owned energy giant Aramco on stock exchanges, Reuters reports.
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Christopher Hooks / GQ:
Beto O'Rourke vs. Ted Cruz and the Fight for America  —  Down in deep-red Texas, a fresh-faced liberal named Beto O'Rourke has a shot at beating Ted Cruz.  But huge as that would be, the race has grander implications: It helps explain all the giddy hopes and secret fears of Democrats everywhere.
 
 
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Shirley Halperin / Variety:
Steven Tyler Demands Trump Stop Playing Aerosmith Songs at Rallies
Discussion: IJR
Hannah Levintova / Mother Jones:
The Trump Official Overseeing Migrant Girls' Health Care Once Wrote He Couldn't “Support Abortion for Any Reason”
Discussion: Jezebel
Gray Rohrer / Orlando Sentinel:
Homeland Security, FBI say Florida election system has not been hacked
The Dworkin Report:
A constitutional lawyer just laid out the case for Trump's impeachment
James S. Robbins / USA Today:
Social media companies are the real ‘enemies of the people’
Discussion: NewsBusters
S.V. Date / HuffPost:
White House Admits Trump Is Using Official Events For Midterm Campaigning
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Linette Lopez / Business Insider:
Internal documents reveal the grueling way Tesla hit its 5,000 Model 3 target
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Linda Stasi / New York Daily News:
Singer claims he was drugged and raped in 2010 by classical music power couple
Andrew Roth / The Guardian:
Paul Manafort went to Kyrgyzstan to 'strengthen Russia's position'
Discussion: proekt.media
Jason L. Riley / Wall Street Journal:
The Media Keep Falling Into the Trump Trap
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Jimmy Kimmel Doesn't Want to ‘Appeal’ to Trump Fans: 'I Don't Think That World Exists Anymore'
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Althouse
Lucia Graves / The Guardian:
‘Addicts, crooks, thieves’: the campaign to kill Baltimore's light rail
Mike Allen / Axios:
GOP's midterm nightmare: Party “looks like a criminal enterprise”
Discussion: Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA