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As Republicans “hide in the tall grass,” a darkening shadow engulfs Donald Trump’s presidency

The following article by Eric Lutz was posted on the Mic.com website August 22, 2018:

Donald Trump attends a meeting at his New Jersey golf club in August. Credit: Brendan Smialowski, Getty Images

It was one of the most consequential hours of Donald Trump’s presidency.

On Tuesday afternoon, the president’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort was found guilty on eight bank and tax fraud charges stemming from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation — verdicts that could send him to prison for the rest of his life.

Simultaneously in New York, Trump’s former longtime personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to eight charges — and, perhaps most significantly, implicated his former boss in the process.

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