Perspective: After Cohen’s hearing, the BuzzFeed bombshell that Mueller disputed looks better — and worse
By Margaret Sullivan Margaret Sullivan Media columnist Email Bio Follow Media columnist February 28 at 9:41 AM In mid-January, a BuzzFeed News report hit the news cycle like a mile-wide asteroid landing on Earth.
And then, stunningly, Mueller’s office issued a brief, devastating statement disputing aspects of the BuzzFeed report. And so, the pendulum swung back wildly. “BuzzFeed was right!!!” tweeted Rick Wilson, a Republican strategist-turned-Trump-bashing author. “Pretty good day for @buzzfeednews,” wrote Dan Kennedy, who teaches journalism at Northeastern University.Richard Tofel, president of the investigative reporting nonprofit organization ProPublica, wrote: “It looks like the big @BuzzFeed story from January about Trump telling Cohen to lie to Congress is wrong.
But, he continued: “In conversations we had during the campaign, at the same time I was actively negotiating in Russia for him, he would look me in the eye and tell me, ‘There’s no business in Russia,’ and then go out and lie to the American people by saying the same thing. In his way, he was telling me to lie.
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