NY Times cover

[Yonnie3]

Link to tweet

ETA: joshcryer has provided a link to the final cover page in color! This is a large PDF file!

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/08/22/nytfrontpage/scan.pdf

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. That looks great!

I can't help wondering, though, why he pled guilty.

[mnhtnbb]

2. He's hoping not to go to prison for the rest of his life

by pleading guilty and telling the truth about the orange one.

[Yonnie3]

4. Got to wonder why

There will be a lot of speculation over the next few days, but I have to wonder if we will ever know why with certainty. There are lots of different pressures on him.

[RockRaven]

7. I saw somewhere the maximum sentence for the things he pleaded guilty to amounted to 65 years.

I'm not sure that is correct, but if it were, 3-5 yrs is a bargain if you acknowledge that you're caught dead to rights.

And that's all the prosecution offered him (so far as is known based on the court filings -- just a guilty plea in exchange for a sentencing recommendation). No cooperation agreement yet, but that cuts both ways -- he hasn't promised to squeal yet, but also prosecutors have a reservoir of felonies they have not yet promised not to charge him with.

[JohnnyRingo]

21. He knew what they had in the raid at his house.

His only choice as I see it was to plea bargain or clam up and hope for the best like Manafort. I think the feds had a slam dunk and he just told them what they already knew.

[RockRaven]

3. To be fair "a candidate for federal office" could be Mike Pence...

We had better get Cohen to testify in front of a grand jury just to be sure!!! Amirite?

[dalton99a]

8. No, it was Chuck Schumer

He was helping Chuck

[Yonnie3]

10. Hillary?

That's who they blame.

[Honeycombe8]

19. That's it! Trump will claim that.

He'll say "It was Hillary who directed that. She was SO AFRAID of the sympathy that the people would have for me, for being so UNFAIRLY accused of doing things that I didn't do, THOSE LIES...that she was afraid the people would come out by the millions to vote for me! Of course they came out by the millions, anyway...she didn't realize that was going to happen, anyway....."

[SummerSnow]

26. Don't forget Obama, he has to be the blame too.

[Yonnie3]

27. Unfortunately he wasn't a candidate then.

If he had been, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

[proglib217]

25. As I said in a post in another thread...

I would have much preferred for him to have said "Donald Trump", not "a candidate for federal office." The latter gives us nothing. You may know, and I may know, to whom he was referring, but a trier of fact in a court proceeding doesn't. Guilt must be found beyond a reasonable doubt by a unanimous jury, and there ain't no way that burden is going to be met with what we have right now.

[Hortensis]

29. Sorry, but Trump is now implicated in two crimes

under oath by Cohen. The New York Times headline says Trump is implicated, with the entire top half of the print edition devoted to these developments. All DC analysts believe it is Trump. That should mean something to you.

As for why Trump was not named in this trial, they were not allowed to in that context. Apparently it's treated as something like a third-party statement to protect a person not on trial. HOWEVER, ex- prosecutors say if Cohen says the very same thing as a witness in a trial Trump would be named.

[better]

30. And in addition to the supposition that everybody knows based on that wording...

the criminal information actually goes on to note a particular date involved in the offenses, by which time "the candidate" had become President of the United States.

There's no getting around the very obvious fact that trump is implicated.

[D23MIURG23]

31. There is only one candidate for federal office that Cohen was working with,

so the point is moot. "A candidate for federal office" can only refer to Donald Trump - any other conclusion would be absurd in light of the other information we have about Cohen's involvement with Trump and the election.

[joshcryer]

5. This is the current front page, not sure if they changed it:

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/08/21/nytfrontpage/scan.pdf

[Yonnie3]

9. Your image is Tuesday

Mark's image is Wednesday's.

[joshcryer]

12. You are correct, I changed the URL and it's not there yet.

My bad. NYT posts cover pages but it's not updated yet I tried the URL to see if it was there and now I realize this is tomorrows front page.

This is YUGE.

[Yonnie3]

14. Mark is an editor.

I'm sure this is a proof and subject to change.

[joshcryer]

15. Yeah, I just realized his twitter handle.

Feel bad for posting the wrong day now.

If it deviates it won't be by much.

Headline for the ages.

[Yonnie3]

17. I have met him and trust him as a source, but realized

that these are preliminary. So much fake stuff out there.

[joshcryer]

18. I didn't see the verified tag so I was kinda trying to find another source.

On Twitter, if you don't have a blue little trophy thingie, you're not credible, but this guy, looking at his history, is credible to me. He has 40k followers, tho, probably legit. I shouldn't let that blue tag / verified tag be so relevant.

This is 99% the front page, with, as you suggest, possible variation.

We are about to witness history.

[joshcryer]

22. NYT UPDATED THE COVER:

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/08/22/nytfrontpage/scan.pdf

[Yonnie3]

24. Color!

Fingers crossed here that this will not be the most momentous cover of the NY Times this fall.

[BannonsLiver]

6. Feels like that'll some dayend up in a coffee table book retrospective of this whole sordid affair.

[volstork]

11. One to save.

n/t

[Skraxx]

13. Goodbye Ruby Tuesday

[Stuart G]

16. kick , no text..

[Cha]

20. Oh YES!!!!

Link to tweet

[Achilleaze]

23. republicans slime everything they touch

we must rid America of the degenerate, greedy, unjust, treasonous republican values that have polluted our nation.

[Gothmog]

28. Great cover

[Permanut]

32. Most excellent..

A quibble with the NY Times, though. The sub headline reads "A One-Two Punch Puts Trump Back on His Heels".

Nothing puts Trump back on his heels. He has no conscience, he has no concern for anyone but himself. And he is not ever on the defensive; he will just continue to escalate his attacks. Fucking zombie.

[joshcryer]

33. Kick!

This is a headline for the ages.