A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
2 verified reports published on April 25, 2018.
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The day’s big lesson was simple: when your fixer needs the Fifth, the story is no longer just about the fixer. It is about the man who hired him, protected him, and then spent months insisting there was nothing to see. On April 25, that posture looked less like confidence than denial with bad lighting.
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Michael Cohen told a federal court he would invoke the Fifth Amendment in the Stormy Daniels case, a move that deepened the legal cloud around the president’s longtime fixer and the payout at the center of the Daniels fight.
As the FBI raid on Michael Cohen’s office kept reverberating, Trump’s legal team pushed to block prosecutors from using seized materials and to control the privilege fight around the evidence.