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BREAKING: President Trump personally directed his longtime attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow in order to obscure his involvement. buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
Trump supported a plan to visit Russia during the presidential campaign in order to personally meet President Vladimir Putin and jumpstart the tower negotiations.

“Make it happen,” two law enforcement sources say Trump told Cohen. buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
Sources also say Trump, along with his children Ivanka and Donald Jr., received regular, detailed updates about the project from Cohen, even as Trump told the public he had no business deals with Russia.
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