Buzzkill?
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Sorry your clickbait masters tricked you. It is kind of their bread and butter. No worries. This will happen 20 more times as the Mueller Report nears completion.
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Mueller team disputes BuzzFeed report claiming Trump told Cohen to lie
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office on Friday issued an extraordinary statement disputing a bombshell news report that claimed President Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie about the timing of discussions over a proposed Trump Tower project in Moscow.
“BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to the Special Counsel’s Office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen’s Congressional testimony are not accurate,” Peter Carr, a spokesman for Mueller’s office, said.
The statement is remarkable in that Mueller's team rarely issues statements in response to news stories. But BuzzFeed's story sparked immense interest from Democrats, who called for renewed investigations and even suggested the allegations could be a basis for impeachment proceedings.
Buzzfeed's Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith tweeted after the release of the statement Friday: "In response to the statement tonight from the Special Counsel's spokesman: We stand by our reporting and the sources who informed it, and we urge the Special Counsel to make clear what he's disputing."
In a story published Thursday, BuzzFeed cited two unnamed federal law enforcement officials involved in an investigation on the matter who said Cohen acknowledged to Mueller’s office that he was instructed by Trump in 2017 to lie to Congress about the now-abandoned real estate deal to build a Trump Tower in Russia.
The report said Mueller’s office first learned of the directive from interviews with witnesses from the Trump Organization and internal company email, text messages and documents.
The report, which was not been confirmed by Fox News, was immediately dismissed by President Trump’s legal team.
"Any suggestion – from any source – that the president counseled Michael Cohen to lie is categorically false. Michael Cohen is a convicted criminal and a liar," Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani said. "... Today’s claims are just more made-up lies born of Michael Cohen’s malice and desperation, in an effort to reduce his sentence."
Earlier Friday, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., whose committee is already investigating the president and his ties to Russia, called the allegations in the report “the most serious to date.”
“The allegation that the president of the United States may have suborned perjury before our committee in an effort to curtail the investigation and cover up his business dealings with Russia is among the most serious to date,” Schiff said in a statement. “We will do what’s necessary to find out if it’s true.”
Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., said the House should begin to “establish a record” of whether Trump “committed high crimes,” repeatedly hinting on Twitter at the potential for impeachment proceedings.
“Based on the Buzzfeed report and numerous other articles showing @realDonaldTrump committed Obstruction of Justice and other possible felonies, it is time for the House Judiciary Committee to start holding hearings to establish a record of whether @POTUS committed high crimes,” Lieu tweeted.
Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, called for Trump to leave office or face impeachment if the report is accurate.
“If the @BuzzFeed story is true, President Trump must resign or be impeached,” he said.
The BuzzFeed report claimed Trump directed Cohen to lie in his congressional testimony, though according to court documents and the statements Cohen made publicly, he has acknowledged that his actions were taken out of “loyalty” to the president.
In November, Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about the Trump real estate project in Russia as part of Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling and potential collusion with Trump campaign associates in the 2016 presidential election.
Cohen entered into a plea deal with the special counsel to cooperate on “any and all matters” deemed relevant. The maximum prison sentence for Cohen is five years, plus fines of up to $250,000.
In court in November, after entering his plea, Cohen acknowledged his work for Trump as counsel and adviser.
In a separate case brought by federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, Cohen pleaded guilty to breaking campaign finance laws by helping orchestrate payments to former Playboy model Karen McDougal and adult film star Stormy Daniels in exchange for their silence about alleged sexual encounters with the president years before he took office. Prosecutors and Cohen himself said the former Trump fixer orchestrated those payments at Trump's direction.
Cohen is slated to appear for public testimony before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Feb. 7.
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YOU CAN SMELL THE DESPERATION, FROM THE LEFT
YOU CAN SMELL THE DESPERATION, FROM THE LEFT
blackascoal
The Force is With Me
The only one with egg on their face is Buzzfeed .. if the report is proven false.
Why only Buzzfeed? Because the Left doesn't run on bullshit, and no other outlet would confirm the port without further confirmation. It's called real news.
One the other hand Trump and the right will do everything they can to conceal what will be in Mueller's report.
That's called the fear of real news.
Why only Buzzfeed? Because the Left doesn't run on bullshit, and no other outlet would confirm the port without further confirmation. It's called real news.
One the other hand Trump and the right will do everything they can to conceal what will be in Mueller's report.
That's called the fear of real news.
reagansghost
eternal
well Buzzfeed may have gotten a few details wrong
Comrade Trump's off the hook!
the teabillies were right after all!
Comrade Trump's off the hook!
the teabillies were right after all!
When do you think your boyfriend will forget about the mess you made of the new sheets?
reagansghost
eternal
what 'substantive documents' desperado?
the FAKE SOURCES said that MUELLER had SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS Trump suborned perjury
It is actually quite extraordinary for the Special Prosecutor to come out with any statement on the validity of the news stories, to expect he'd do it and parse it like that is a bit absurd.
reagansghost
eternal
so you don't know? got it
I love this bit by the way......
Putin responded, "What.....after taking precious time out to establish a relationship....we should have a meeting simply to insult one another, we can't act in a civilized manner.... We come to together just to shout and insult?"
fuckin Vlad is slick......great way to say he was giving Don his performance review lol
Centerleftfl
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Very CAREFULLY parsed. Ex-FEDERAL prosecutors went on to say given the CHARGES, the 'addl charge' when COHEN had to go back to court for to lying congress but MUELLER recommended NO additional time to his sentence, thinks this statement to might be to protect another case (or something they aren't finished with?). All above my head but even the Mueller statement triggered thoughts in their brains, there is no real denial. Inaccurate doesn't mean FALSE.
"Buzzkill" was pretty damn specific in it's remarks BACK TO MUELLER. Tell us what was "inaccurate". And they stood by their story.
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The words “specific statements” were used. NOT “substantive documents”.
We know the core of Buzzfeed’s story is true and accurate. Cohen lied to Congress about the Moscow Trump Tower. Mueller made sure to bring him back, specifically charge him with that and he pleaded guilty. Mueller’s office indicated the truth of all off that. And they never asked for a minute of extra time for that plea. Why do you think that is?
Because they set the stage to determine whether someone is responsible for suborning that perjury.
That was a very narrowly worded release by SCO. We’ll see what it really means when Mueller’s report comes out and/or when Cohen testifies. Can’t wait, can you? I’m sure Trump and his family will be totally vindicated.
last thing I'm going to do is debate Russian relations with a Russiaphobe/idiotic "colluder"
I don't know what dude? I KNOW WHAT MUELLER PUT OUT. there are no supporting doc as BF said.
get some clues