Topic: Buzzfeed: Trump directed Cohen to lie to Congress per docements (Read 80 times)

I think it is interesting that no other (semi) reputable news organization has been able to verify the report. This only reduces the chances of the report being accurate.

Many opinion cable news shows that present themselves as news have been foaming at the mouth about this report.

He has already been sentenced to years in prison for crimes many others wouldn’t face criminal charges for (the tax issues would likely be handed civilly). The lying to Congress is very wrong but many in the Obama administration lied about material things that would not necessarily come out regardless but have not faced consequence.

First off, I think Cohen should be held responsible for his actions, whether there are claims of Trump asking him to lie or not. So, if Trump had asked him to chop off his own hand he would do it? Again, I think there is more to it than what the buzzfeed is letting out. The White House has a lot of skeletons that there aren't letting out yet.

Its a mess.  The entire MSM piled on to the buzzfeed report before Mueller's office issued the statement.  A huge blow to MSM credibility (whatever was left of it) and a win for anyone who has ever believed in "fake news".

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/jasonleopold/trump-russia-cohen-moscow-tower-mueller-investigation?__twitter_impression=true

Buzzfeed 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)?