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The news that Trump told his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress is the culmination of more than a year of BuzzFeed News reporting.

This is how we got here.

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The story began in April, when we revealed that as Trump ran for president, his business team worked on a Trump tower in Moscow — with the help of a former Russian intelligence officer. But in a twist, that former officer also gave intelligence to the US.

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The definitive story of how Trump's team worked the Moscow tower deal came out a month later, thanks to a trove of emails, text messages, congressional testimony, architectural renderings, and other documents obtained exclusively by BuzzFeed News.

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Efforts to get the tower built weren't limited to Trump's business team. During the campaign, Ivanka Trump was in contact with a Russian weightlifter who offered to introduce Trump to Putin, which he said could expedite the 100-story tower.

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In what could have been the icing on the cake: The Trump Organization planned to give Putin the penthouse as a gift.

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Trump instructed Cohen to lie to Congress to obscure his own involvement. Law enforcement sources say Trump 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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Just hours after our story's publication last night, lawmakers vowed to investigate.

"We must learn the truth and defend the rule of law," Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney of the House Intelligence Committee said.

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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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Trump is about to make his case for a border wall.

We could be fact-checking his speech, but we want to try something different. Rather than responding to a crisis of his administration's own making, here’s the reality at the border:
Homeland Security statistics show a steady decline in border apprehensions over the past two decades.

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Just 6 people detained at the border in the first half of 2018 were on a government watch list.
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A 2016 State Department report said there's no info suggesting the border is being used by terrorists to enter the US.
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Last night, BuzzFeed posted a blockbuster report that President Trump directed his longtime attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about the Trump Tower Moscow Project. A reminder: suborning perjury is a felony. Here are six of the biggest takeaways wired.trib.al/RcQBYm9 1/
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"Trump directed his longtime attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow...

"Trump also supported a plan, set up by Cohen, to visit Russia during the presidential campaign in order to personally meet President Vladimir Putin"
Barr's memo literally says that suborning perjury is obstruction
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#Trump #SaudiArabia #BinLaden #Russia
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#Trump #SaudiArabia #BinLaden #Russia

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