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Ben Smith acknowledges that BuzzFeed's Cohen story is at odds with the Mueller report. But he's not willing to say that it has been disproved (which would be quite a high bar to reach) esquire.com/news-politics/…
The special counsel's report pretty thoroughly undercut the story, even if BuzzFeed won't admit it. Cohen did testify that he thinks Trump implicitly wanted him to lie to Congress, but Cohen also testified that he had no convo w/ Trump about the specifics of the testimony
Cohen testified that Trump telling him "no Russia, no collusion" amounted to being instructed to lie to Congress about the details of Trump Tower. That's a stretch, and Cohen had a lot of incentive to downplay his culpability.
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