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This Buzzfeed business is a perfect example of how the requirement of criminal law blind us to the truths we most need to absorb and deal with ... 1/x
Through 2015-2016, Trump was seeking a giant payday from Putin at the exact same time he was running for president of the United States. Trump and his surrogates . repeatedly lied about this fact.
One of those lies about the Trump-Putin business relationship was told to Congress by Michael Cohen. BuzzFeed reported that it had seen evidence that Trump personally counseled this lie. That report has now been disputed by the Special Counsel Office.
SCO contradiction is embarrassing to BuzzFeed and somewhat embarrassing to everybody, me included, who commented "if true" on the BuzzFeed story. BUT ... BUT ... BUT ...
... it REMAINS THE CASE that Donald Trump was seeking a giant payday from Vladimir Putin while running for president. That's the story. And it's central to the national security of the United States whether or not Trump tripped 18 US Code Sec 1622 along the way
