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    Trump's 'everybody does it' view of politics comes to color his conduct, and that of his aides

    by Noah Bierman and Eli Stokols, Los Angeles Times Aug 23, 2018 4 minutes

    WASHINGTON - After the guilty verdicts came down against Paul Manafort on Tuesday, President Donald Trump was quick to note that his former campaign chairman had worked for Ronald Reagan and many other Republicans, implying that anyone in politics would have hired him, despite Manafort's later reputation for operating in lobbying's darker corners.

    What about the illegal pre-election payments that Trump's former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen admitted to in a separate federal court that day, intended to hush two women alleging affairs with Trump? No more a crime than a minor campaign finance violation by the 2008 Obama campaign, Trump tweeted on Wednesday.

    Similarly, earlier this month Trump again dismissed suspicions about his son's 2016 meeting with

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