Trump signals his post-presidency plan: Weekend Edition

[Bloomberg]( [Trump’s Already Tweeting His Post-Presidency Defense]( – Noah Feldman President Donald Trump’s [three-tweet]( [sequence]( [on Michael Cohen]( Thursday morning was different from the usual presidential stream of consciousness. Compact and carefully reasoned, the tweets sound an awful lot like they were written with a lawyer standing at the writer’s shoulder. Taken together, the tweets signal that Trump and his team are genuinely concerned about the possibility of his being indicted after leaving office — totally separate from any danger of impeachment. That’s significant. The tweets lay out a three-part defense strategy aimed at fending off a future possible prosecution of the ex-president for campaign finance violations, which Cohen has said [he performed at Trump’s direction](. Read the [whole thing](. [Yep, Bitcoin Was a Bubble. And It Popped.]( – Noah Smith [Donald Trump Owns This Stock Market]( – Barry Ritholtz [Impeachment Is Getting More Likely]( – Jonathan Bernstein [Is Trump a Nixon or a Clinton? Cohen’s Crimes Offer a Guide]( – Noah Feldman [Macron Just Doesn’t Get It]( – Tyler Cowen [The U.S. Has Huawei in Cuffs. China Has the U.S. in Chains]( – Tim Culpan [Sorry, Mr. President, You’re Not Getting a Shutdown]( – Jonathan Bernstein [Would You Want to Be Donald Trump’s Chief of Staff?]( – Timothy L. O’Brien [Britain Gets a Second Brexit Referendum (by Proxy)]( – Therese Raphael Saturday New Music Here are [five new albums]( you can stream right now, including the “Springsteen on Broadway” and “Vox Lux” soundtracks. This is the Weekend Edition of Bloomberg Opinion Today, a roundup of the 10 most popular stories Bloomberg Opinion published this week, based on web readership, with some other stuff thrown in. New subscribers to the newsletter can [sign up here](. [FOLLOW US [Facebook Share]]( [Twitter Share]( SEND TO A FRIEND [Share with a friend] You received this message because you are subscribed to Bloomberg's Bloomberg Opinion Today newsletter. [Unsubscribe]( | [Bloomberg.com]( | [Contact Us]( Bloomberg L.P. 731 Lexington, New York, NY, 10022