president s former attorney yesterday surrendered to the f.b.i. and pleaded guilty to eight charges and he took donald trump s name with him cohen told federal prosecutors that trump wanted him to use campaign funds in order to affect the outcome of the u.s. presidential election at almost the same time yesterday paul mann a ford trucks former campaign manager was convicted on charges including tax and bank fraud now the comparisons with the watergate scandal are obvious and abundant never in the trump presidency has the word impeachment been used as often as right now yet it is doubtful that president trump sees himself as another richard nixon last night as the news was breaking he took to the stage at a rally in west virginia as if he had stepped into an alternate reality trump was cheered by the crowd and he clapped while people chanted hillary.