Mueller's report states that investigators were unable to establish that President Trump 'directed or aided' Michael Cohen's false testimony to Congress about the Trump Tower Moscow dealings, putting a disputed BuzzFeed News story back in the limelight.
The Buzzfeed story on Jan. 17 began,"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."
In Mueller's report, it says that when Cohen was working on his statement to congressional investigators, which he provided in late 2017, the attorney"had extensive discussions with the President's personal counsel, who, according to Cohen, said that Cohen should not contradict the President and should keep the statement short and 'tight.'"
In his written answers to Mueller, Trump wrote he had"few conversations" with Cohen about Trump Tower Moscow — a project that did not ultimately come to fruition.
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