It's still unclear how Trump's Terrible Tuesday will end
Manafort and Cohen's day in court were bad for him politically, but there are just too many 'ifs' in the narrative
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TUESDAY was a Big (more like a Yuge) News Day in America, with journalists struggling to keep up with two developing political dramas, and broadcast news networks bombarding viewers with "We Interrupt You With Breaking News" and "This Just In!"; meanwhile, the headlines in online news sites were changing by the minute. Forget the 24/7 news cycle. This was turning into a 60-second cycle.
In a court room in Manhattan, President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen was pleading guilty to eight criminal charges, including tax evasion and campaign finance violations, and admitting that Mr Trump had directed him to arrange payments to two women during the 2016 campaign to ensure that they would not speak publicly about affairs they had had with then Candidate Trump.
And at almost the same time, in a court room in Alexandria, Virginia, after four days of deliberations, a 12-member jury detailed its guilty verdict in the trial of former Candidate Trump's campaign manager, Paul Manafort, convicting him of eight charges related to bank and tax fraud.
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