Republican Congressman indicted

Lock him up!

Republican congressman indicted: https://t.co/gLm8B0MT08

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 21, 2018

HOLY HELL pic.twitter.com/bahU7MB1a8

— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) August 21, 2018

#CA50 Rep. Duncan Hunter (R) will be moving from Solid R back to Likely R at @CookPolitical & has the potential to get more competitive.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) August 21, 2018

NEWS: GOP Congressman Duncan Hunter and his wife indicted for using campaign funds for personal expenses. @LauraAJarrett @MaeveReston report https://t.co/gQRmEMK3Bp

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) August 21, 2018

Sidenote: The two House Republicans who were indicted this month were also the first two members of Congress to endorse Donald Trump's presidential campaign https://t.co/TaXT8MP0Ad

— Haley Byrd (@byrdinator) August 21, 2018

Confirmed, Hunter's stuck on the ballot. Commence the "he used campaign donations to pay for his dental work" ads! https://t.co/CCRs7dQXUW

— David Dayen (@ddayen) August 21, 2018

Pardons after charges – timelines

I would not be shocked in Trump pardoned Manafort. Since Cohen implicated Trump, he won’t be getting a pardon.

Source close to the White House says what a lot of people are thinking, with Trump on his way to W. Va.: "What if he pardons Manafort live on television? This is crisis PR firms worst nightmare.."

— Tarini Parti (@tparti) August 21, 2018

https://t.co/d1pQ1TACK8 pic.twitter.com/yD2jzL3jt4

— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) August 21, 2018

Bull market

Trump never gives credit to Obama for the economy

which means Obama was president for 83% of them https://t.co/ouRRZWcusD

— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) August 21, 2018

Lock him up!

In a scene you couldn't script, Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is found guilty on eight counts and Trump lawyer Michael Cohen pleads guilty to eight counts within minutes of each other. Trump is on Air Force One flying to a rally in West Virginia.

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) August 21, 2018

Today, in federal court, the President's fixer said the president ***directed him to break campaign law*** to cover up an explosive allegation a few days before an election that the president won by 77,000 votes across three states.

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) August 21, 2018

An admitted felon is "saying that his co-conspirator and/or his aider and abetter was the president of the United States. That is something that I think is basically without precedent in American history" —@JeffreyToobin

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 21, 2018

Former Justice Department aide: “If Trump knew about the payments in advance or even agreed to them later, he’s looking at liability as a conspirator for what is now a proven crime.” https://t.co/IqXzdQ2DNT

— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) August 21, 2018

#MichaelCohen just said he committed felonies in coordination with and at the direction of @realDonaldTrump to violate campaign finance laws. Now we know precisely why Lanny Davis played the audio recording b/t Cohen & Trump AND precisely why Giuliani tried to get ahead of it.

— Laura Coates (@thelauracoates) August 21, 2018

Cohen committed crimes "In co-ordination with, and at the direction of" @realDonaldTrump . Thus, President appears to be co-conspirator and/or aider and abettor of a federal crime.

— Jeffrey Toobin (@JeffreyToobin) August 21, 2018

Whether or not *called* an unindicted co-conspirator, that’s what the sitting president IS as of close of business today, August 21, 2018, a day that will live in legal infamy. That’s the import of two of Michael Cohen’s guilty pleas.

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) August 21, 2018

Just to summarize: Michael Cohen has admitted he paid hush money–at the behest of a "candidate"–to two women whose stories, if they had been fully known, might have changed a few votes in the 2016 election.

— Paul Farhi (@farhip) August 21, 2018

Trump is going to look for someone to go on TV and spin the Cohen allocution about being directed by Trump (described only as a federal candidate). It's…hard to spin.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 21, 2018

A misleading statement at best. As part of his guilty plea, Michael Cohen says he violated campaign finance laws "in coordination and at the direction of a candidate for federal office." That is, at Trump's direction. Which is an allegation of wrongdoing. https://t.co/zmPQhm4IVT

— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) August 21, 2018

I despise Trump but I doubt the Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal stories would have affected the election if we had known about them. Remember, we already knew about Access Hollywood, Mexicans are criminals, the birther lie, etc. and 62 million people voted for him anyway. We already knew he had been unfaithful in the past.

If Trump can’t be charged while he is president, I want him to be indicted as soon as he leaves office Lock him up!

Perfect English

Another example of Trump’s bigotry

President Trump lauds Border Patrol agent for speaking "perfect English" https://t.co/3Di4grgH5b pic.twitter.com/Y43CqorygO

— CNN (@CNN) August 21, 2018

Reminder: 70% of Latinos in America WERE BORN HERE so yes, the vast majority of us “speak perfect English”. #sheesh

— Lisa Guerrero 💃🏽 (@4lisaguerrero) August 20, 2018

"Speaks perfect English" would have raised fewer eyebrows if Trump didn't have a history of assuming "foreignness" of Latino/Asian Americans: https://t.co/z2jLX3J1HX pic.twitter.com/XnykfHbCJb

— Dara Lind (@DLind) August 21, 2018

Majority of the Senate represents only 18% of the US population

And, 60% of the Senate now represents just 24% of the country’s population. This penalty for Dems is on full display in 2018: https://t.co/qmCDpXQkLy

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) August 20, 2018

Blazing Take: The Senate is an unconstitutional violation of the principle of democratic equality (one person, one vote). https://t.co/Qyu1Q8WOXM

— Brian Ted Jones (@briantedjones) August 20, 2018

A long-term problem for Democrats: a majority of the Senate now represents 18% of the country’s population.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) August 20, 2018

For all the gerrymandering in the House, it's actually the Senate that's vastly more unrepresentative. The fact it's remotely close owes to 11 red-state Dem senators – almost entirely up in 2018 – who have hung on thanks to an extraordinary combination of skill & luck.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) August 20, 2018

If that red-state Dem dam breaks – and it *could* in November – we could be headed for a Senate that's largely accountable to a white, rural, pro-Trump minority of the country. At some point, the coastal/urban majority could run out of patience – threatening democratic stability.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) August 20, 2018

Trump’s rollback of emissions standards will be bad for our health

Here is an extraordinary/blunt admission from Trump-era EPA: between 470 & 1,400 people in the US will die prematurely EVERY year, starting by abt 2030, as a result of the new power plant rule the EPA is releasing today. @LFFriedman https://t.co/97udHglhOz

— Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) August 21, 2018

Also in the fine print: The Trump plan would lead to 48,000 new cases of exacerbated asthma every year https://t.co/598dSvWRNA https://t.co/CnL4VxrEf9

— Jonathan Ellis (@jonathanellis) August 21, 2018

President Trump's coal emissions rollbacks will be bad for the country's health, experts say https://t.co/NVi1wOUfB1 pic.twitter.com/H5MqeA8Dzp

— CNN (@CNN) August 21, 2018

Goodbye "Clean Power Plan" as Obama-era EPA called it. Trump-era EPA has renamed it. Now it is "Affordable Clean Energy rule." EPA just put out a news release, will unveil it Tuesday 10 a.m. Stay tuned to NYT. Here is a preview by @LFFriedman https://t.co/8JBPn8n062

— Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) August 20, 2018

Coal is not coming back for the same reason 35mm film is not coming back. Cheaper, cleaner, better alternatives were discovered. @realDonaldTrump scrapping the Clean Power Plan will not save the coal industry. It will just make our air and water dirtier. https://t.co/9gtnCtQcD6

— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) August 21, 2018

JUST IN: California governor says the EPA's new coal pollution rules are a "declaration of war" against America https://t.co/c38h3btF3L pic.twitter.com/qOkV4sagj2

— Newsweek (@Newsweek) August 21, 2018

The other side:

A very good day for Kentucky. I applaud @realDonaldTrump for continuing to roll back and working to end the Obama war on coal. https://t.co/7Phg0z1DtT

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) August 21, 2018

.@realDonaldTrump promised he’d end radical Obama job-killing regulations on coal and restore American energy independence, and he’s delivering with today’s action. This means more jobs, lower prices, and a return of American strength!

— Rep. Steve Scalise (@SteveScalise) August 21, 2018