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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/
1. Mueller has the receipts. According to Buzzfeed, special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators have more than Cohen’s word. In fact, the lead of the article instead originated with documents and witnesses inside the Trump Organization. wired.trib.al/RcQBYm9 2/
2. The politics just changed in a big way. These allegations are about lying to Congress, which makes it harder for Congress to brush them away—and given the new Democratic majority in the House, they’re certainly not inclined to. 3/ wired.trib.al/RcQBYm9 
3. The obstruction case could be much bigger than Comey. It’s quite possible that Mueller won’t focus on any single incident, but will instead paint a broader picture of Trump's apparent years-long effort to hide the truth of his dealings with Russia 4/ wired.trib.al/RcQBYm9
4. The president's family is potentially in lots of legal trouble. BuzzFeed’s reporting now shows that the president's family, specifically Ivanka and Donald Jr., are almost certainly going to be wrapped up in the investigation ahead. 5/ wired.trib.al/RcQBYm9
5. Trump's incoming attorney general already said it's a crime. Bill Barr appears to have already boxed himself in and we likely only know a fraction of the evidence Mueller could present about the president’s behavior at this point. 6/ wired.trib.al/RcQBYm9
6. Trump's defense team is rattled. After months of endlessly repeating the phrase “no collusion,” Rudy Giuliani tried to tell CNN that he had meant there was no personal collusion by the president himself—he can’t speak for the rest of the campaign. 7/ wired.trib.al/RcQBYm9
Putting it all together, we’re still left with this: The president should almost hope that Robert Mueller concludes he’s a Russian agent, because the alternative might be even worse. wired.trib.al/4eXgED1 8/
