Will The Cohen, Manafort Cases Reshuffle Global Politics?

Donald Trump with his campaign manager Paul Manafort at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, July 21, 2016. Picture taken July 21, 2016. REUTERS/Rick Wilking/File Photo

David Eckels Wade, Reuters: How Cohen, Manafort cases reshuffle global politics

Tuesday’s judicial bombshells will scramble political calculations not just in the United States, but in capitals around the world. In the span of a few hours, we witnessed first the conviction of Donald Trump’s campaign manager and longtime associate Paul Manafort on eight charges of tax evasion and bank fraud in connection to his work for a pro-Putin Ukrainian strongman. Then we saw the president’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen plead guilty to campaign finance violations and say that Trump had directed him to pay hush money to two women during the 2016 campaign to stop them from speaking out about affairs they said they’d had with him.

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WNU Editor: From what I have read .... and with the exception of the U.S., Canadian, and U.K. media .... there has been minimal coverage on this story. This tells me that the impact on global politics will also be minimal. And while I am sure that in some capitals of the world an assessment on how this will impact President Trump are being made, we have been down this road so many times in the past year and a half that I suspect the assessment will be "same story as usual".