“Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller offered the most compelling case yet of President Donald Trump’s ties with Russia and the efforts to conceal them when former Trump fixer Michael Cohen acknowledged Thursday that he lied to Congress about the president’s interest in a Moscow development project.
“Across nine pages of detailed court documents, Mueller’s team countered Trump’s oft-repeated claims that he had no business interests in Russia.
“Cohen not only lied when he told the Senate and House Intelligence Committees that all discussions about a Trump Tower development in Moscow had ceased in January 2016, federal prosecutors said, but sought to hide efforts to push the project to advance Trump’s political prospects during the contentious 2016 campaign and limit his possible legal jeopardy.”
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