Cohen scorches Trump as he’s sent to prison

“I felt it was my duty to cover up his dirty deeds.” No Images? Click here   By Paul Vale     Thursday, December 13 COHEN SLAMS TRUMP ON WAY TO PRISON President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to lying to Congress and violating campaign finance laws. “I take full responsibility for each act that I pled guilty to: the personal ones to me and those involving the president of the United States of America,” Cohen told the judge. 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[HuffPost] DEMS TORPEDO YEMEN VOTE Five Democrats saved House Republicans from an embarrassing floor defeat, voting with the GOP on a farm bill rule that controversially included language blocking a vote on U.S. involvement in Yemen. [HuffPost] MAY WINS LEADERSHIP VOTE Theresa May has fought off an attempted coup to topple her as British prime minister, winning a vote of confidence, 200 to 117. [HuffPost UK] 9 DEAD IN TURKEY TRAIN CRASH Nine people were killed and nearly 50 injured in Turkey when a high-speed train collided with a locomotive in an Ankara suburb. [Reuters]         HOW PELOSI MONSTERED TRUMP This is how Nancy Pelosi masterfully dismantled Trump during their Oval Office sit-down. And this guest writer argues that Trump’s meltdown reveals the GOP’s insecure masculinity problem. [HuffPost] RUDY TO MUELLER: ‘WRAP IT UP’ Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani unloaded on special counsel Robert Mueller in a phone conversation with Yahoo News, saying the White House is doing “everything we can to try to convince Mueller to wrap the damn thing up, and if he’s got anything, show us.” [HuffPost] CHINA RETRIBUTION OVER HUAWEI EXEC A second Canadian may have been detained in China in an act of retribution following the arrest of a Chinese Huawei executive in Canada. [CNN] HUGE NUMBER OF JOURNALISTS IMPRISONED A near-record number of journalists around the world are behind bars for their work, according to a new report. [Reuters] WHITE HOUSE COULD TARGET VIETNAMESE IMMIGRANTS Immigration advocates are worried the White House will try to deport thousands of Vietnamese immigrants, many of whom arrived in the U.S. as refugees. [HuffPost] CONGRESS CRACKING DOWN ON SEXUAL HARASSMENT After months of delays and years of powerful men spending taxpayer money to cover up sleazy behavior, Congress is finally ready to pass a bill cracking down on lawmakers who sexually harass their staff members. [HuffPost]       The producers of “The Mandalorian,” the live-action Star Wars streaming series, has added Giancarlo Esposito, Emily Swallow, Carl Weathers, Omid Abtahi, and Werner Herzog to the cast. Here are some budget-friendly gift ideas for just about everyone. Apple says it plans to build a $1 billion campus in Austin, Texas. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said Wednesday the league won’t pay for video evidence in cases involving domestic violence, and he defended his league’s handling of those investigations. Who is more likely to be audited: A person making $20,000 — or $400,000? Workers are reportedly ghosting their employers — as if they were bad Tinder dates. J.Lo keeps that iconic Versace dress on a mannequin at home. Jacob Walter Anderson, a former fraternity president at Baylor University who was given a controversial plea deal after being accused of drugging and raping a woman, was banned from a commencement ceremony at his new school. Thomas Markle tried to win back the affection of his daughter Meghan Markle by giving a profanity-laced interview pointing out Prince Harry’s past mistakes. A man is suing after he says one of his pinky fingers was caught in an airline armrest mechanism for nearly an hour during a flight to Los Angeles. Joy abounds in Hollywood’s latest remake-sequel hybrid, “Mary Poppins Returns.” Here’s our review. Trump is out of options, according to Richard Painter, the former chief ethics attorney for President George W. Bush. “It’s quite clear his goose is cooked here,” he told MSNBC. Fox News mistakenly called the president “David Trump” in a caption. Perhaps they meant David Dennison? 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