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	Podcast:		Morning Joe
	Episode:		Snitches Get Stitches: President of the United States of America Suggests 'Flipping' Sides Should Be Outlawed; GOP Reps Remain Silent
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		01:26:35
	Publish Date:		2018-08-23 07:45:48
	Description:		Amidst the fallout from the 8-count guilty verdict of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump granted an interview with Fox News, aired this morning, and suggested that the "flipping" of allegiances while enduring legal questioning, in hopes of a lighter sentence, be outlawed. This marks the first time in United States history that a sitting President has alluded to the conscious undermining of the law. While the President's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, may have already flipped against him, releasing a plethora of secretly-recorded tapes, texts and other transcripts from previously-encrypted media, his former campaign chair, Paul Manafort, has remained silent. The President, tweeting, in part, "I feel very badly for Paul Manafort and his wonderful family...unlike Michael Cohen, he refused to 'break'..." Many are reading into this sort of rhetoric as, according to our very own Eddie Glaude Jr., a "snitches get stitches"-esque mantra that is consistent with the rhetoric of a "mob boss." In addition to this, President Trump is, once again, switching up his story on the Stormy Daniels payment and when exactly he knew about it. In the past, the President has denied the payment's existence, outright. Then, a secret tape released by then-attorney Michael Cohen revealed that the President had openly discussed the payments with Cohen. And, today, Trump flipped the script once more by telling Fox News that he knew about the payments "later on" and that they were not taken from campaign finances -- the payments were, instead, made from his own, personal accounts. Meanwhile, GOP Congressional representatives remain largely silent on the President's recent statements, the guilty plea from Michael Cohen and the guilty verdict of Paul Manafort. The New York Times' Jeremy Peters argues that it would be "political suicide" if they publicly decry President Trump with just 75 days until the midterm elections. It's Thursday, August 23, 2018. Welcome to Morning Joe.
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