During his guilty plea last November, Cohen, 52, admitted he lied when he told Congress in August 2017 that the Moscow Trump Tower project, an idea that dated back as far as 1996, had collapsed by the end of January 2016, when Trump was one of just many candidates seeking the Republican nomination. In fact, it did not end until June 2016, by which point Trump was the only candidate still in contention, other than John Kasich. “In truth and in fact, Cohen’s representations to the Senate select committee on intelligence and the House committee about the Moscow Project were false and misleading,” according to a document filed by federal prosecutor in the southern district of New York. BuzzFeed said the two sources have now revealed Cohen also told special counsel Robert Mueller that after the election, the president personally instructed him to lie in order to obscure Trump’s involvement.