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Collusion Isn’t Trump’s Biggest Problem Anymore

The president and his allies are grappling with an escalating existential threat: With Tuesday’s revelations, he was implicated in a crime.
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What has been the worst day of the Trump administration? It could have been January 21, 2017, when Press Secretary Sean Spicer started the presidency off with a pointless and futile fight over inauguration attendance. Or May 17, 2017, when Special Counsel Robert Mueller was appointed. Perhaps July 16, 2018, the day of President Donald Trump’s disastrous meeting in Helsinki with Vladimir Putin.

Grasping the historical import of a moment in real time is tough, but it seems possible that, in retrospect, August 21, 2018, will prove to be a new nadir, and a turning point for the Trump presidency. Just after 4 p.m. ET, a jury in Alexandria, Virginia, returned eight guilty verdicts against Paul Manafort, Trump’s former. At the same hour, in Manhattan, Michael Cohen, a former attorney and aide to Trump, .

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