President Trump Directed His Attorney To Lie To Congress About The Moscow Tower Project [View all]
Source: BuzzFeed News
President Donald Trump directed his longtime attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, according to two federal law enforcement officials involved in an investigation of the matter.
Trump also supported a plan, set up by Cohen, to visit Russia during the presidential campaign, in order to personally meet President Vladimir Putin and jump-start the tower negotiations. "Make it happen," the sources said Trump told Cohen.
And even as Trump told the public he had no business deals with Russia, the sources said Trump and his children, Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr., received regular, detailed updates about the real estate development from Cohen, whom they put in charge of the project.
Cohen pleaded guilty in November to lying about the deal in testimony and in a two-page statement to the Senate and House intelligence committees. Special counsel Robert Mueller noted that Cohen's false claim that the project ended in January 2016 was an attempt to "minimize links between the Moscow Project and Individual 1" -- widely understood to be Trump -- "in hopes of limiting the ongoing Russia investigations."
Read more: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/trump-russia-cohen-moscow-tower-mueller-investigation
The reporter who wrote the story is about to phone-in on Lawrence O'Donnell, MSNBC.
The reporter is saying that Mueller already had physical or other evidence that Trump had directed Cohen to lie BEFORE Cohen met with Mueller. So Cohen was confirming stuff that Mueller already knew.
ON UPDATE: Lawrence just pointed out that Michael Cohen kept TAPE RECORDINGS, which we know the FBI acquired during the raid. So it is POSSIBLE they even have Trump on tape, directing Cohen to lie.
Wouldn't that be something!
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