New York tabloids gleefully slam Trump over Cohen and Manafort
After Tuesday's one-two punch of a guilty verdict for President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and a guilty plea for his former attorney Michael Cohen, New York tabloids had some fun with the drama that inched uncomfortably close to the president.
"ALL THE PRESIDENT'S HENCHMEN," trumpeted Wednesday's New York Daily News cover, sarcastically calling the two men Trump's promised "best people." The New York Post, meanwhile, ominously underlined the fact that "DON'S CONS" both now face jail time.
The tabloids didn't let Trump wriggle out of his association with Manafort and Cohen, as the president tried to do when he distanced himself from his former campaign chairman shortly after his conviction. Recalling All The President's Men and Watergate, the two publications placed Trump right in the middle of the two scandals. Read more about Trump's worst day ever here at The Week.
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