MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s office has issued a rare public statement disputing the accuracy of BuzzFeed News’ report that President Donald Trump’s former attorney told Mueller that Trump directed the lawyer to lie to Congress…BuzzFeed, citing two unidentified law enforcement officials, reported that Trump directed lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about a Moscow real estate project and that Cohen told Mueller the president personally instructed him to lie about the timing of the deal. The report said Mueller’s investigators learned about Trump’s directive ‘through interviews with multiple witnesses from the Trump Organization and internal company emails, text messages, and a cache of other documents.'”
–Associated Press, “Trump ‘Appreciates’ Mueller’s Statement on Report’s Accuracy,” The New York Times online, January 19, 2019