Trump Directed His Attorney Michael Cohen To Lie To Congress About The Moscow Tower Project

insinceredawg

Can't wait for the but but but Hillary/Obama responses from the Trump dickriders

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/trump-russia-cohen-moscow-tower-mueller-investigation

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.”

Now the two sources have told BuzzFeed News that Cohen also told the special counsel that after the election, the president personally instructed him to lie — by claiming that negotiations ended months earlier than they actually did — in order to obscure Trump’s involvement.

sarktastic

this is it? Your smoking gun? Your proof Trump is Putin’s bitch? One fucking hotel?

2001400ex

sarktastic said:

this is it? Your smoking gun? Your proof Trump is Putin’s bitch? One fucking hotel?

Gurgle.

HoustonHusky

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA:

Buzzfeed: "No, we have not seen the evidence in our report".

Edit: And one of the "authors" is Jason Leopold, who has been fired before for plagiarism and making sources up and literally making shit up that supposedly "emails" said.

This will go well for the Left...

2001400ex

HoustonHusky said:

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA:

Buzzfeed: "No, we have not seen the evidence in our report".

Edit: And one of the "authors" is Jason Leopold, who has been fired before for plagiarism and making sources up and literally making shit up that supposedly "emails" said.

This will go well for the Left...

Post more zero hedge articles.

HHusky

But her emails!

RaceBannon

The country is about to witness an investigatory train wreck.

In one direction, special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation train is looking for any conceivable thing that President Donald Trump's presidential campaign team might have done wrong in 2016.

The oncoming train is slower but also larger. It involves congressional investigations, Department of Justice referrals and inspector general's reports — mostly focused on improper or illegal FBI and DOJ behavior during the 2016 election.

Why are the two now about to collide?

By charging former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn for lying to the FBI, Mueller emphasized that even the appearance of false testimony is felonious behavior.

If that is so, then the DOJ will likely have to charge former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe with perjury or related offenses. A report from the Office of the Inspector General indicates that McCabe lied at least four times to federal investigators.

Former FBI Director James Comey may also have lied to Congress when he testified that he had not written his report on the Hillary Clinton email scandal before interviewing Clinton. Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former CIA Director John Brennan lied under oath to Congress on matters related to surveillance.

Clinton aides Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin likely lied when they told FBI investigators they had no idea that their then-boss, Hillary Clinton, was using an illegal private email server. Both had communicated with Clinton about it.

Mueller is said to be investigating whether Trump obstructed justice by requesting that Comey go easy on Flynn.

If so, then the DOJ will have to look at Comey himself and DOJ officials who obstructed a federal court. On at least four occasions, they were not honest about the deeply flawed Christopher Steele dossier being the source of information used in applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Comey also has said that he predicated the nature of the Clinton email investigation on his assumptions about her chances of winning the presidency — another investigatory abuse.

The Mueller team is reportedly still looking into the possibility of election-cycle collusion with Russia by Trump officials.

That track will require Mueller's DOJ counterparts to look carefully at the Clinton campaign, which paid opposition researcher Steele, a British subject, for dirt on Trump that was produced through collusion with Russian sources.

Mueller is also said to be investigating whether Trump or his advisers broke laws concerning the release of confidential government information.

If so, the DOJ may have to indict Comey. He confessed to passing along confidential FBI memos to a friend for the expressed purpose of leaking their contents to the press.

High-ranking Obama administration officials may also be subject to indictments, given that they may have requested the “unmasking” of American citizens whose communications were intercepted during the surveillance of foreign parties and then leaked the names of those citizens to the press. Mueller's team apparently has assumed that Michael Cohen's status as Trump's personal attorney offers no protections under normal attorney-client privilege protocols.

If that is true, the DOJ will have to investigate why the FBI allowed Clinton aide Mills to pose as Clinton's attorney and thereby be shielded from providing testimony on what she knew about the email scandal involving her “client.” Investigators have swarmed Cohen's offices and residence, supposedly in fear that he might destroy pertinent records.

The FBI should probably then reopen the investigation into the Clinton email scandal, given that Clinton destroyed more than 30,000 emails, as well as computer hard drives

insinceredawg

Go ahead and downplay it all you want but this is clear obstruction of justice. The reason Mueller's investigation is taking so long is because they keep on uncovering more crimes.

HHusky

Poor Dick Nixon. He must wonder how his crimes were ever a big deal.

HoustonHusky

insinceredawg said:

Go ahead and downplay it all you want but this is clear obstruction of justice. The reason Mueller's investigation is taking so long is because they keep on uncovering more crimes.

Yeah...Buzzfeed. Along with their "blockbuster" report by a guy who has a long history of making shite up (Karl Rove indicted, fake Enron emails, a proud alumnus of the truthout nutjob society), Buzzfeed other current top news stories literally are:

1) 19 Celebrity Instagrams you Probably Missed this Week
https://www.buzzfeed.com/morganmurrell/celebrity-instagrams-you-probably-missed-this-week-1-18-19

2) 21 Restrooms That Are Going To Make You Say, "Why Doesn't Every Restroom Have That?"
https://www.buzzfeed.com/christopherhudspeth/restrooms-that-are-going-to-make-you-say-why-doesnt

3) 19 Old People Who — Bless Them — Are NOT Great With Technology
https://www.buzzfeed.com/farrahpenn/old-people-who-are-not-great-with-technology

4) 16 Honest Confessions From People In The Funeral Industry
https://www.buzzfeed.com/agh/confessions-funeral-home-workers-directors-job-mortician

5) 28 Small Things Under $20 That Will Truly Make A Difference In Your Day
https://www.buzzfeed.com/abbykass/small-things-under-20-dollars-that-will-make-a-big?origin=hpp

Admittedly, this is probably as hard-hitting as CNN and MSNBC in actual "news" value, but this is what the Left has now?

HondoFS and SincerelyFS are quite a pair...

2001400ex

HoustonHusky said:

insinceredawg said:

Go ahead and downplay it all you want but this is clear obstruction of justice. The reason Mueller's investigation is taking so long is because they keep on uncovering more crimes.

Yeah...Buzzfeed. Along with their "blockbuster" report by a guy who has a long history of making shite up (Karl Rove indicted, fake Enron emails, a proud alumnus of the truthout nutjob society), Buzzfeed other current top news stories literally are:

1) 19 Celebrity Instagrams you Probably Missed this Week
https://www.buzzfeed.com/morganmurrell/celebrity-instagrams-you-probably-missed-this-week-1-18-19

2) 21 Restrooms That Are Going To Make You Say, "Why Doesn't Every Restroom Have That?"
https://www.buzzfeed.com/christopherhudspeth/restrooms-that-are-going-to-make-you-say-why-doesnt

3) 19 Old People Who — Bless Them — Are NOT Great With Technology
https://www.buzzfeed.com/farrahpenn/old-people-who-are-not-great-with-technology

4) 16 Honest Confessions From People In The Funeral Industry
https://www.buzzfeed.com/agh/confessions-funeral-home-workers-directors-job-mortician

5) 28 Small Things Under $20 That Will Truly Make A Difference In Your Day
https://www.buzzfeed.com/abbykass/small-things-under-20-dollars-that-will-make-a-big?origin=hpp

Admittedly, this is probably as hard-hitting as CNN and MSNBC in actual "news" value, but this is what the Left has now?

HondoFS and SincerelyFS are quite a pair...

Funny how you were all in on the Bezos national inquirer story.