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Trump’s Miserable Tuesday: Theme of the Week

Trump’s Miserable Tuesday: Theme of the Week

This Week Was Cohen-Manafort Week

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- We can debate whether any U.S. president has ever had a worse day than Donald Trump did on Tuesday — hey, remember that Jimmy Carter once got chased across a fishing pond by a wild rabbit — but the conviction of a former campaign chairman and guilty plea by a longtime personal lawyer occurring within minutes of each other has to be up there. For the first time, perhaps, the possibility of impeachment looks viable, and Bloomberg Opinion writers were quick to weigh in on every angle from legal strategy to constitutional precedent to, of course, how the markets will respond (this is Bloomberg, after all).

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Tobin Harshaw writes editorials on national security and the military for Bloomberg Opinion. He was an editor with the op-ed page of the New York Times and the paper’s letters editor.

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