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USA Today: Trump's claims about Cohen's campaign-finance admissions make no sense, experts say
"These statements do the opposite of what he intends," said Paul Ryan, a top lawyer for Common Cause. "They don't prove his innocence. They, in fact, underscore his guilt."
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Common Cause on All In With Chris Hayes: Cohen Indicates He was Ordered by Trump to Break Law
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Uncommon Reads: New Yorker "Donald Trump has been Implicated in a Criminal Conspiracy"
The first in a series of "Uncommon Reads" from Common Cause staff. These must reads are selected by the staff member indicated in the by-line. The writing excerpted is that of the author of the article being recommended.
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Washington Post: After fast turn against Trump, Michael Cohen threatens to leverage secrets against the president
“You have to follow the money and figure out who was in on the decisions and who wasn’t in on the decisions," said Stephen Spaulding, chief of strategy for the watchdog group Common Cause. "We don’t have the answers to that. “It sounds like it wasn’t just Donald Trump and Michael Cohen sitting in a room together.”
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USA Today: Mueller investigation isn't a 'witch hunt,' and other reactions to Manafort verdict
Manafort’s conviction increases the need for Congress to protect Mueller’s investigation from White House interference, said Karen Hobert Flynn, president of the Common Cause, a government watchdog group. "Justice must be allowed to run its course through the Special Counsel’s investigation," she said. "Americans expect Congress to put country before party and exercise its oversight responsibilities to allow the full truth to be unearthed and shared with the nation."
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Wall Street Journal: Michael Cohen’s Plea Puts Trump Under Legal Scrutiny
“The simple fact that a sitting president is implicated is pretty astounding and something we haven’t seen in decades, if ever,” said Paul Seamus Ryan, a vice president at Common Cause, a Washington-based group that had filed a complaint with the Justice Department about the payments.
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New York Times: Cohen Implicates President Trump. What Do Prosecutors Do Now?
“We’re talking potential years of jail time if he’s not the sitting president but was instead a civilian candidate,” said Paul S. Ryan, the vice president of policy and litigation at Common Cause, which filed campaign finance complaints based on the payments made to the women connected to Mr. Trump.
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Robert Reich: Ten Steps to Finding Common Ground
Robert Reich offers advice on engaging political conversations with people we disagree with because democracy depends on it.
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60 Minutes: What Happened When Russian Hackers Attacked U.S. Election Infrastructure
Bill Whitaker of 60 Minutes takes us to the nondescript strip shopping center in Springfield, Illinois where the first shots were fired by Russia last year in what is now widely understood, by almost everyone but President Trump, as an ongoing cyber attack on our democracy.
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Memo: Trump Tower Meeting Was Not "Totally Legal"
Paul S. Ryan, Common Cause's Vice President of Policy and Litigation, drafted a short memo explaining the legal jeopardy President Trump's recent tweet about the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting puts himself and his campaign in.