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    Guilty: 6 Takeaways From Manafort's And Cohen's Big Day

    The two high-profile people close to President Trump were either found guilty or pleaded guilty to multiple federal crimes — and one implicated the president in a major campaign finance violation.
    by Domenico Montanaro Aug 22, 2018 4 minutes
    President Trump speaks before a political rally in West Virginia on Tuesday. He lamented the fate of his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort. He called Manafort's guilty verdict "very sad" and said he is a "good man."

    In a split-screen whiplash, a regular Tuesday turned into a blockbuster with two top people close to President Trump now facing prison.

    First, it was Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign chairman, found guilty of tax evasion and bank fraud by a jury in Virginia. Minutes later, in New York, it was Trump's longtime former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, pleading guilty to tax evasion, falsifying submissions to a bank and campaign finance violations.

    The kicker was that Cohen said he made those unlawful contributions — intended to silence women who had dirt on Trump — at the president's behest.

    So what should be made of Tuesday's developments? Here are six takeaways:

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