Trump’s Worst Day

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🗓️ 23 August 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Matt and Gillian discuss Paul Manafort’s guilty verdict and Michael Cohen’s guilty plea with Franklin Foer and David A. Graham. Was Tuesday a turning point for the Trump administration? Links - “The Day That Everything Changed for Trump” (David A. Graham, August 22, 2018) - “Trump’s Victory Was a Disaster for Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort” (David A. Graham, August 23, 2018) - “Blind Confidence Couldn’t Save Paul Manafort” (Franklin Foer, August 21, 2018) - “The Plot Against America” (Franklin Foer, March 2018 Issue) - “Will Trump Be Meeting With His Counterpart — Or His Handler?” (Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine, July 8, 2018) - “All Eyes on the Presidency” (Adam Serwer, August 22, 2018) - Corruption in America (Zephyr Teachout, 2016) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This may be one of the most significant weeks so far in the Trump presidency because of two events announced within minutes of one another on Tuesday.
0:08.0	One, a guilty verdict in the trial of Paul Maniford, and two, a guilty plea from Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen,
0:15.0	meaning that each man will now be sentenced for eight felony counts.
0:19.0	What have we learned this week?
0:21.0	And what could happen next? learned this is to Radio Atlantic. I'm Matt Thompson, Executive Editor of the Atlanta Hello and co-host for this episode Jillian White.
0:53.0	Hello, Jillian.
0:54.2	Nice to have you.
0:55.6	Jeff and Alex are off, Galavanting
0:58.3	as they do during the August.
1:00.7	And so Jillian is joining me at the table. And with us here is The Atlanta. the
1:05.0	at the audience is joining me at the table and with us here is the Atlantic's national correspondent
1:06.4	Franklin IV. Hello Frank. Hello.
1:09.0	Yay Frank.
1:10.0	Down somewhere in North Carolina is one Atlantic staff writer David Graham.
1:16.0	Hello David.
1:17.0	Hello.
1:18.0	So glad that all of you could join us.
1:20.0	David, I want to start with quote from your piece on the Atlantic.com low this very day.
1:28.4	You wrote quote grasping the historical import of a moment in real time is tough, but it seems possible that in retrospect,
1:35.8	August 21st, 2018 will prove to be a new nadir and a turning point for the Trump presidency.
1:42.4	Just after 4 PM Easternm. Eastern time a jury
1:44.4	in Alexandria Virginia returned eight guilty verdicts against Paul Manifort
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