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

January 17, 2019 By jamesb 2 Comments

Remember….

Robert Mueller and the US Attorney for the Southern District knows MORE about this than ANY of us know….

Lying to Congress is a crime….

con·spir·a·cy
/kənˈspirəsē/
noun
In criminal law, a conspiracy is an agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime at some time in the future.[1] Criminal law in some countries or for some conspiracies may require that at least one overt act be undertaken in furtherance of that agreement, to constitute an offense. There is no limit on the number participating in the conspiracy and, in most countries, no requirement that any steps have been taken to put the plan into effect….
Wiki….

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.

The special counsel’s office learned about Trump’s directive for Cohen to lie to Congress through interviews with multiple witnesses from the Trump Organization and internal company emails, text messages, and a cache of other documents. Cohen then acknowledged those instructions during his interviews with that office.

This revelation is not the first evidence to suggest the president may have attempted to obstruct the FBI and special counsel investigations into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election….

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image…TheLATimes….

Filed Under: Government, Law, Other Things, Politics Tagged With: conspiracy, Crimes, Donald Trump, Lying to Congress, Michael Cohen, Mueller Investigation/Probe, Trump Moscow Tower project

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  1. jamesb says

    January 18, 2019 at 12:06 pm

    There are some Trump lawyers that are looking over their shoulders….

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    • jamesb says

      January 18, 2019 at 12:10 pm

      The feeling that IF Cohen and other sources ARE to be believed?

      From a LEGAL point of view?

      Trump has a LEGAL problem….

      One doesn’t know if the Political problem is enough to deep six Trump…

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