Days after the FBI raided the hotel room and offices of Michael Cohen, President Trump’s attorney and fixer, the president granted a full pardon to I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, who in 2007 was convicted of perjury, making false statements to the FBI and obstruction of justice in connection with a special counsel investigation. The timing […]
Our social media editor, Meena Ganesan, dutifully sends out a tweet each morning from the @FiveThirtyEight account detailing President Trump’s approval rating according to our constantly updating average of polls. The tweet isn’t automated, but it probably could be, since the number is always pretty much the same. For the past 66 days, Trump’s approval […]
Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s weekly politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. micah (Micah Cohen, politics editor): For your consideration today: Should President Trump agree to be interviewed by special counsel Robert Mueller? Obviously, we’re not lawyers or legal analysts, so we mostly want to focus on the politics of that question. But let’s […]
Will Michael Cohen flip? The media has been debating that question ever since the FBI raided the office of President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer on April 8. Cohen is under investigation for bank fraud and campaign finance violations, and while that case is separate from Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential […]
Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s weekly politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. micah (Micah Cohen, politics editor): Here’s my plan, if it works for everyone: The overarching question will be “Is James Comey’s book/publicity tour helping or hurting the case against President Trump?” You can interpret “the case” however you want, but I mostly […]