Posted on 01/20/2019 9:14:30 AM PST by libstripper
When a BuzzFeed reporter first sought comment on the news outlet’s explosive report that President Trump had directed his lawyer to lie to Congress, the spokesman for special counsel Robert S. Mueller III treated the request as he would almost any other story.
The reporter informed Mueller’s spokesman, Peter Carr, that he and a colleague had “a story coming stating that Michael Cohen was directed by President Trump himself to lie to Congress about his negotiations related to the Trump Moscow project,” according to copies of their emails provided by a BuzzFeed spokesman. Importantly, the reporter made no reference to the special counsel’s office specifically or evidence that Mueller’s investigators had uncovered.
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Paywall
(I guess the compost is for walls, now.)
Didn’t that guy who owns Fakebook lie to congress?
Guess that’s different.
When the Buzzfeed story broke, I didn’t really give it much attention. We the reading public, have been saturated with all sorts of outrageous accusations about our president.
To me, this was but another ‘Chicken Little’ event of faux hysteria. I am now conditioned to disregard most articles like that one.
The only difference here, was that the story became disowned and disproven very quickly. I think “MuleHead’ disowned the article within the same day, much to the Libs disappointment.
It was too big of a lie even for Mueller to stomach.
Hillary Clinton lied to Congress all throughout her Benghazi testimony.
I second that in what you’re saying. I’ve become so saturated that all potentially bad news has stopped bothering me all together. I’m happier now for it.
I hope it was just a lie. The alternative is a trial balloon - float the accusation and see if it's enough to shake Trump's marginal supporters.
The CIA’s house organ bought with taxpayer money!
Everyone started screaming impeach....Did Mueller HELP the Dems by heading them off? Cuz he was silent on 100 other false stories.
Yeah, but she lied to Republicans in Congress.
What I would like to know is why the Special Councils Office was allowed to break into Cohens office and seize files, despite Client Lawyer privilege, but can’t break into a third rate magazine and seize files. We need to know who is leaking.
In the 60’s there was a movie with an interesting title that relates to our time:
“How I learned to stop worrying and love the Bomb.”
Substitute the phrase “Trump Presidency” for Bomb, and that’s about where I am right now. I don’t like everything he does, nor do I even understand it, but I like the overall zeitgeist he brings to the country.
James Clapper lied to Congress!
Certainly this took the wind out of Nancy’s sails. No longer a Trump card.
Many say it isn’t good politics for the Democrats to use the impeachment option on Trump since Bill Clinton was able to weather it quite well in the 1990’s and use the resentment by his supporters as a political weapon.
Interesting take on what Mueller might be up to.
I just don’t trust any of these Deep State Clowns. There’s some larger purpose going on.
This is poor reporting, they just cannot bring themselves to give up the set of facts that allow the impeachment narrative to live another day. Cohen is going to jail for five counts of tax evasion and has incidentally pleaded guilty to lying to congress and campaign finance violations. Cohen invoiced Trump’s organization for things that he did not deliver. The fact that the Deputy Attorney General “inquired” about their response and then they had the time to respond was interesting. It is easy to speculate that there are many more things to which they have chosen not to respond.
Mark Levin’s take: The BuzzFeed article would open up an FBI probe of leaking from the Mueller operation, as only his team could be the source of such information. Mueller sought quickly to kill that possibility.
This article is fair. What we had was a complicit conspiracy to lie and smear our President. It was not just BUZZFEED ( who also published Hillary’s Dossier obtained from the Russians) , it was the leftist media which jumped on under the statement “ IF TRUE” it was impeachment time. It was all a smear.Actually it was a malicious slander for which they should be sued for $billions and economically destroyed. Cohen denied this story through his lawyers!! How can you go with this contrived nonsense without Cohen. Cohen is a dirty rat!! Even he was repulsed and realized that he would have to lie to Congress to push this narrative. Did you know that “IF TRUE” that hillary killed Vince Foster, she could be executed after trial? I have now concluded that this has so destroyed the Fake News enemy of the people that they will never recover. They are gasping for the air of credibility and it is just not there anymore.
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