https://www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/jasonleopold/trump-russia-cohen-moscow-tower-mueller-investigation?__twitter_impression=trueBuzzfeed is reporting that President Trump directed his then lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to congress about the timing of when the Rump Tower hotel deal in Russia was abandoned. Cohen has testified it was abandoned in January 2016 when in fact it was abandoned that summer.
Buzzfeed is reporting that special counsel Robert Mueller’s officer has evidence of this including Trump organization emails and text messages.
One of the two Buzzfeed reporters later said in an interview that he has not personally seen any of these documents. Muellers office has denied this report in that it is saying that Buzzfeed is misrepresenting the description of the documents and that the report is false. Except for court filings, Muellers office has almost never made any public statements.
If this is true, and the evidence is solid (it doesn’t appear to be), Trump will likely be impeached and potentially removed from office. If this is outright untrue, Buzzfeed will lose any credibility it has left and will likely eventually either file bankruptcy or get sold for a firesale price (a very quick sell, so to say).
I don’t personally think the report is true. It would make little sense for Trump to do this as the Mueller investigation was already underway, so the underlying facts of when the deal fell through would likely have come out anyway and he was already elected and didn’t face re-election for over 3 years at the time.
What are your thoughts on this? Will this erode the Meduas credibility (beyond Buzzfeed)?
