PBC News & Comment: Trump Should Resign Immediately

Michael Cohen’s stunning guilty plea fingers Trump for directing hush money coverup; politicians duck impeachment; PBC says he should resign….--Cohen’s plea deal and Manafort’s conviction don’t have anything to do with Russiagate so far, but expose Trump as criminal, liar
--Dems and Repubs dance around impeachment
--new book and petition promote impeachment
--Guardian op-ed offers lame arguments against impeachment
--Trump rallies the mob in West Virginia, with false promises of coal revival and more immigrant-bashing
--data show that ICE has almost completely blocked asylum claims in recent months
--nationwide prison protest is underway, reports Shadowproof
--GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter may be going to prison for corruption
--Sen. Elizabeth Warren unveils anti-corruption legislation, and Sam Husseini points out the limits of her outrage
--Facebook reports new efforts to mislead Americans, suspends 652 accounts
--during out-of-control California wildfire, Verizon throttled back internet service to firefighters’ command center over $50 in data charges