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[W:120]Mueller's office disputes BuzzFeed report that Trump directed Cohen to lie to Congress

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Skeptic Bob said:
I like how Mueller will correct the media when they misreport something significant about the investigation. It lends a bit more believability to the reports that AREN’T corrected.
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That's an interesting supposition

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Post of the year so far:

Originally Posted by NeverTrumpGOP View Post

'I wouldn't question Buzzfeed's credibility (Buzzfeed Finds Its Credibility Questioned Again) after winning lawsuits about such credibility.'
 
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So I have been hanging out with my wife today, paying light attention....I now realize that Mueller did the right thing today for a change in knocking down this anti-Trump speculation which Mueller claims is an untruth.

My earlier post Jamming Mueller was off the ball.

Good for him.
 
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slick said:
Post of the year so far:

Originally Posted by NeverTrumpGOP View Post

'I wouldn't question Buzzfeed's credibility (Buzzfeed Finds Its Credibility Questioned Again) after winning lawsuits about such credibility.'
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:giggle1:
Too funny.
 
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I have a hunch after all this, Cohen won't be appearing before Congress anytime soon. I could be wrong, but I don't think so.
 
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beefheart said:
No worries, it will all come out soon enough.

Trump is in a world of trouble, we will find out....
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Or not!

We've been hearing nonsense like this since before he was elected. The left is starting to look like an SNL skit!
 
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Mongidig said:
Or not!

We've been hearing nonsense like this since before he was elected. The left is starting to look like an SNL skit!
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Uh, no.

Tell that to the indicted and jailed folks in his administration.

What an incredibly stupid thing to say.
 
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vesper said:
I have a hunch after all this, Cohen won't be appearing before Congress anytime soon. I could be wrong, but I don't think so.
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You have been wrong several times before....so there is that...
 
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beefheart said:
You have been wrong several times before....so there is that...
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Haven't we all. Cohen is scheduled to appear before a committee I believe Feb. 7th. We will find out soon enough.
 
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Sounds like the Mueller camp is trying to lower the expectations of the loony left. Could it be that Mueller has concluded that there is nothing wrong with anything Trump did? That there isn't even enough evidence for the damn investigation? He's getting near the end, maybe he's signaling what he's got... nothing.
 
All them liberals having to eat a big bowl of crap.

Guess buzzfeed is the ****. Can’t go wrong believing them. Haha
 
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Anthony60 said:
Sounds like the Mueller camp is trying to lower the expectations of the loony left. Could it be that Mueller has concluded that there is nothing wrong with anything Trump did? That there isn't even enough evidence for the damn investigation? He's getting near the end, maybe he's signaling what he's got... nothing.
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More or less true for the first sentence. But 'nothing at all' might be a bit too hopeful, rather like the 'looney left' expecting Mueller to bring absolute proof that Trump is a wholly owned asset of Vladimir Putin. I'd say he's trying to manage expectations, with a little, "Hold your horses, these things take time and are not always as simple as they seem".
 
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PoliSciXtina said:
Interesting they are sticking by their story.


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Honestly, I wouldn't go by just that though it's good (for them, anyway) that they are. You see tabloids say the same thing (not that Buzzfeed is...). I hope Mueller puts out a clarification, but he probably won't.
 
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uptower said:
More or less true for the first sentence. But 'nothing at all' might be a bit too hopeful, rather like the 'looney left' expecting Mueller to bring absolute proof that Trump is a wholly owned asset of Vladimir Putin. I'd say he's trying to manage expectations, with a little, "Hold your horses, these things take time and are not always as simple as they seem".
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All they said was the report is not entirely accurate. Here's the bit they were likely talking about:

"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."

Now if one or more of these sources is wrong, it may not be enough to sink the whole thing. So as usual, back to wait and see...
 
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well, as I always say, innocent until proven otherwise and that goes for Trump too. Though his campaign is highly suspicious when it comes to collusion, you heard it from the horses mouth so to say, Trump's own lawyer. Strange how this has been along the timeline. First it was nobody colluded and nobody had contact with a foreign government, to then being stated to the best of our knowledge, then it was "yes, we met Russians but it was not scheduled". Then it was "yes, it was scheduled but it only was about adoption", followed by "no Hillary dirt was given to me". Afterwards the talk to "collusion is not a crime" and now the latest version from Trump/his lawyer "Only Trump himself is innocent, I never said people in has campaign had not colluded".

We will have to wait what the Mueller report states (thank goodness he was the voice of reason today) and what a real congressional investigation shows regarding the Russian interference. The democrats in congress should stay away from a Russia/Trump investigation but Trump and his hotel and not divesting from his company/profiting from his presidency should be investigated. Not with an intent to impeach Trump but bring an end to any dubious practices by his company/Trump himself (if any are found of course because has before, innocent until proven otherwise).
 
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uptower said:
All they said was the report is not entirely accurate. Here's the bit they were likely talking about:

"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."

Now if one or more of these sources is wrong, it may not be enough to sink the whole thing. So as usual, back to wait and see...
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You are Buzzfeeding now! You don't have any idea what you are spewing.
 
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Anthony60 said:
Sounds like the Mueller camp is trying to lower the expectations of the loony left. Could it be that Mueller has concluded that there is nothing wrong with anything Trump did? That there isn't even enough evidence for the damn investigation? He's getting near the end, maybe he's signaling what he's got... nothing.
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Evening Anthony60,

Tonight Dan Bongino had an interesting theory about this story. He seems to think the story was a canary trap to sniff out leakers. He did a good job of making his case.

Joe Concha from the Hill on an interview proved this story was shopped. Ronan Farrow at the New Yorker was approached about it and he has tweeted that he backed away from it due to his sources said it was not true. The NYT has come out and said their sources said the story is false. But CNN and MSNBC did nothing but promote the story for the last 24 hours. They had Trump in an orange jumpsuit being frog marched out of the WH. And Schiff first thing this morning said his committee is setting up a probe into the Buzzfeed story while countless Democrats were out searching for microphones to comment on the story. Tonight after Mueller's comments all those Democrats and their hard ons for Trump just went soft.


If Bongino is correct the feds caught their leakers.


Tonight was a real blow to TDS sufferers in the MSM and on Capitol Hill
 
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The same people who will find fault with Muellers report if it looks disparingly on Trump.
 
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Libs were taken for a ride by a reporter with a lengthy history of shoddy journalism, going back as far as 2002, lol. Not the first time, and certainly won't be the last.
I'd rather learn how Jason Leopold keeps landing gigs with major news organizations, after a 17 year history that includes:

Leopold, you may recall, is the freelance reporter who was caught making stuff up in a 2002 Salon.com article, self-admittedly “getting it completely wrong” in pieces for Dow Jones, and had his own memoir cancelled because of concerns over the accuracy of quotations.
https://archives.cjr.org/politics/jason_leopold_caught_sourceles.php
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...plus a bizarre scenario during Bush's second term where he claimed Karl Rove had been indicted in the Valerie Plame scandal. Leopold's resume reads like a who's-who of powerful liberal media companies:

-LA Times
-Salon
- Vice
- Buzzfeed
- 60 Minutes cited him as a source

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Leopold

This is what happens when political activists masquerade as journalists, and media companies are complicit in giving them endless opportunities after they've blown their integrity.
 
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uptower said:
All they said was the report is not entirely accurate. Here's the bit they were likely talking about:

"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."

Now if one or more of these sources is wrong, it may not be enough to sink the whole thing. So as usual, back to wait and see...
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Hey did I somehow end up quoting me? That's some scary meta $hit there. No more beer.
 
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Verax said:
I think I remember they did it one time before when it was reported that Cohen was in prague. I think they had no choice but to set the record straight.
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That's a weird story. McClatchy keeps reporting he's been to Prague as well - twice last year, most recently just a month ago. The last time based on cell phone pings. They've done great reporting at times so it's surprising they're sticking with a bad story that Cohen still denies. Someone is feeding people bad info or Cohen is still lying. Tough to figure out that one.
 
trixare4kids said:
Breaking story....

Mueller debunks Buzzfeed Story; President Trump Directed His Attorney Michael Cohen To Lie To Congress About The Moscow Tower Project

LINK to follow shortly: I promise. :) ETA: Link: https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/18/politics/mueller-statement-buzzfeed/index.html

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BREAKING: Spokesman for Special Counsel's Office - "BuzzFeed's description of specific statements to the Special Counsel's Office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen's Congressional testimony are not accurate."



Some of you might remember this headline yesterday by Buzzfeed:

Buzzfeed Claims Mueller Has Proof Trump Suborned Perjury
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It's a carefully crafted sentence. If you diagram the sentence you will discover that it does not dispute the allegation the primary one the impeachable offense.

The idea is so simple that it defies why isn't anyone noticing it? If the allegation is untrue Mueller's office would have said so but it didn't.

Also in an interview with Cohen's attorney he had no comment on the allegation. seems to me if it were untrue he would have said something

I'm sure they will get to the bottom of the memo from the Mueller's office but as it stands right now BuzzFeed is standing behind their reportage.

Something about the BuzzFeed article isn't quite right but it's not the all-important allegation-- the impeachable offense
 
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yankintx said:
The same people who will find fault with Muellers report if it looks disparingly on Trump.
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The same people who have spent the last two years calling Mueller corrupt and questioning his credibility, now suddenly are taking what his "office" says at face value.
 
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