Hard News by Russell Brown

It may be easier to read that thread as a roll-up https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/996775709967355904.html

And a hell of a story from Ronan farrow.

Maddow interviewing Ronan Farrow

I've just heard that Paul Manafort's son-in-law has flipped.

And there are also reports (on MSNBC so grain of salt) that Giuliani's defence is now:
1) DOJ policy advises against indicting a President (true)

and

2) It is legal to get political dirt “from a Russian” (false)

[edit: this is apparently from Laura Ingraham's show on Fox, which I cannot bring myself to watch, but he did say this.

The Special Counsel can ask the Deputy Attorney General to waive the DOJ policy, just by the bye]

I think we're getting to the endgame, folks

Holy shit. Avenatti says he's got two more women who Cohen paid off.

In a bizarre postscript to this thread -- Michael Avenatti is fucked. Was trying to extort $25m from Nike ever likely to end well?