Giuliani / Stormy Daniels
- Trump lawyer: Trump paid former porn star Stormy Daniels (Al Jazeera)
- Giuliani Becomes Latest Lawyer to Make the President’s Life a Living Nightmare by Luke Darby (GQ)
- Giuliani offers new explanation of Comey firing by Eric Tucker (AP)
- Trump Confirms His Money Paid for Stormy Daniels’s Hush Agreement by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
- Trump’s Lawyered-Sounding Morning Tweets Employ the Reasoning of a Precocious Teenage Legal Mind by Elliot Hannon (Slate)
- Rudy Giuliani’s bombshell on “Hannity” shows the White House is panicked over Stormy Daniels by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- Giuliani: Trump fired Comey because former FBI director wouldn’t say he wasn’t a target in investigation (Politico)
- White House leaps into Giuliani damage control by Louis Nelson, Josh Gerstein (Politico)
- Trump says campaign funds were not used to pay adult-film star (Reuters)
- Stormy Daniels’s Lawyer Reveals New Evidence that Could Sink Trump’s Case by Laura Bradley (Vanity Fair)
- The Latest Twist in Trump’s Involvement With Stormy Daniels Could Be the Most Legally Problematic by Alana Abramson (TIME)
- Trump’s Stormy Daniels tweets show how easy he is to blackmail by Matthew Yglesias (Vox)
- Trump confirms he reimbursed Cohen for Stormy Daniels payment; was it a campaign finance violation? by Debra Cassens Weiss (ABA. Journal)
- White House leaps into Giuliani damage control by Louis Nelson and Josh Gerstein (Politico)
- Damaging moments for Trump in an unlikely setting: Fox News by Michael M. Grynbaum (The NY Times)
- Trump says payment to Stormy Daniels did not violate campaign laws by Eileen Sullivan, Matt Apuzzo, and Maggie Haberman (The NY Times)
- The blatant coverup of Trump’s Stormy Daniel’s payment by Aaron Blake (The Washington Post)
- Giuliani’s Defense Only Intensifies the Legal Risks for Trump by Adam Serwer (The Atlantic)
- ‘I was going to get this over with’: Inside Giuliani’s explosive Stormy Daniels revelation by Philip Rucker, Josh Dawsey, Robert Costa and Ashley Parker (Washington Post)
- Analysis: Rudy Giuliani’s revealing interview with Sean Hannity, annotated by Amber Phillips and Callum Borchers (Washington Post)
- Analysis: Giuliani’s media blitz gives investigators new leads, new evidence by By Matt Zapotosky, Devlin Barrett, Carol D. Leonnig and Michelle Ye Hee Lee (Washington Post)
- Trump leads National Day of Prayer event after saying he repaid lawyer Michael Cohen for hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels by Kevin Breuninger and Christina Wilkie (CNBC)
China / Trade War
- Trump’s Move Toward a Trade War Is Likely Making China Nervous by Mark Hay (VICE)
- Donald Trump’s trade war with China already hurting American farmers by Ben Chu (Independent)
- The looming US-China trade war, explained by Zeeshan Aleem (Vox)
- China is firing on all cylinders as it ramps up its trade war with the US by Bob Bryan (Business Insider)
Mueller / Russia Investigation
- Don’t Count on Russiagate to Bring Trump Down by Aaron Maté (The Nation)
Other News
- As Trump Pressure Builds, Spotlight Falls On Solicitor General Noel Francisco by Carrie Johnson (NPR)
- Trump marks National Day of Prayer amid hush money scandal by Ken Thomas (AP)
- Lords plan to let Trump address Parliament in defiance of Bercow’s ban by Joe Watts (Independent)
- Trump’s latest appeal to evangelicals: a new office to protect religious liberty by Tara Isbella Burton (Vox)
- Ryan reinstates House Chaplain after Priest decided to fight dismissal by Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Elizabeth Dias (The NY Times)
- Pruitt’s coziness with Lobbyists and includes secretly buying a house with one by Hiroko Tabuchi and Steve Eder (The NY Times)
- Whoops! Jared Kushner Made Even More Mistakes in His Federal Filings by Justin Elliot (ProPublica)
Analysis
- Why is Mike Pence romancing the Trump base? Because he could become president, sooner than we think by Heather Digby Parton (Salon)
- Interior agency blocks group of archaeologists from attending scientific conference by Dino Grandoni (Washington Post)
- New Revelations suggest a President losing control of his narrative by Peter Baker (The NY Times)
- Influential outsiders have played a key role in Scott Pruitt’s foreign travel by Juliet Eilperin and Brady Dennis (Washington Post)