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The steadfastly mute Robert Mueller decided - after 1 1/2 years - to speak out & explicitly deny a major news report because he just had a few trivial, semantic quibbles with some ancillary claims. That there are journalists pushing that bullshit exacerbates the initial debacle.
If you're one of the people tempted to believe the self-evidently laughable claim that there's something "vague" or unclear about Mueller's statement, or that it just seeks to quibble with a few semantic trivialities, read this @WashPost story about this washingtonpost.com/world/national… 
I have a lot of respect for @BuzzFeedBen & what he's done as an editor. BuzzFeed has long done serious, great reporting. But multiple media outlets have gotten huge Trump/Russia stories wrong & rank-closing among journalists feeds the perception that journalism can't be trusted.
More good WPost reporting from @MattZap & @DevlinBarrett on why Mueller's office felt it necessary to deny the BFeed story. Media figures trying to claim Mueller's denial was vague or just quibbling with details have made the original error so much worse washingtonpost.com/world/national…
In sum: "the special counsel’s office meant the statement to be a **denial of the central theses of the BuzzFeed story** — particularly those that referenced what Cohen had told the special counsel, and what evidence the special counsel had gathered." washingtonpost.com/world/national…
