A grim focus in the White House:The morning after the conviction of Paul Manafort, his former campaign chairman, and a guilty plea by Michael Cohen, his former personal lawyer and fixer, President Trump monitored the headlines, sat for an interview with Fox News and discussed ways to try to seize the news cycle again. But the legal setbacks — and the possibility that both defendants might cooperate with the special counsel — have all but collapsed the president’s attempts to dismiss the criminal investigations engulfing his tenure. Even Mr. Trump’s staunchest defenders acknowledge that he could be exposed to the possibility of impeachment.

Source: New York Times August 22, 2018 22:07 UTC