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On August 28, 2018, the president managed to turn a fresh round of scrutiny into another self-inflicted mess: a baseless attack on Google, plus more proof that the Cohen scandal was still eating his presidency alive.
Trump spent the day lashing out at Google over search results while the legal wreckage from Michael Cohen’s guilty plea kept spreading through Trump-world. The result was a very familiar 2018 blend of grievance, denial, and exposure: the president argued about algorithms while prosecutors and public records kept pulling the campaign-finance and hush-money story back into view.
The throughline here is simple: when Trump tried to make the day about bias against him, the facts kept making the day about his own problems. In Trump-era Washington, that usually meant the louder he got, the worse the underlying story looked.
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The Michael Cohen case was still reverberating on August 28, with new reminders that the hush-money scandal was not just about a rogue fixer. The evidence continued to point back toward Trump, his campaign, and his business orbit, keeping the legal and political exposure alive.
Trump attacked Google over supposedly rigged search results, claiming the company was suppressing conservative outlets and flooding users with negative coverage. Google pushed back, and the whole episode quickly looked like a familiar presidential grievance hunt dressed up as a tech-policy emergency.