Mueller documents how Trump asserted four times at a press conference on November 29, 2018, that it was his idea to put the stop to the Trump Tower Moscow negotiations because he was running for President. Yet the deal had fizzled without Trump's definitive action -- and later than he had let on, according to Michael Cohen.

What the report said:

"After January 2016, Cohen continued to have conversations with [Felix] Sater about Trump Tower Moscow and continued to keep candidate Trump updated about those discussions and the status of the project. Cohen recalled that he and Trump wanted Trump Tower Moscow to succeed and that Trump never discouraged him from working on the project because of the campaign."



"And after Cohen's guilty plea, the President told reporters that he had ultimately decided not to do the project, which supports the inference that he remained aware of his own involvement in the project and the period during the Campaign in which the project was being pursued."



"Later on November 29, after Cohen's guilty plea had become public, the President spoke to reporters about the Trump Tower Moscow project, saying: 'I decided not to do the project ... I decided ultimately not to do it. There would have been nothing wrong if I did do it. If I did do it, there would have been nothing wrong. That was my business ... It was an option that I decided not to do ... I decided not to do it. The primary reason ... I was focused on running for President ... I was running my business while I was campaigning.'" ... "In light of the President's public statements following Cohen's guilty plea that he 'decided not to do the project,' this Office again sought information from the President about whether he participated in any discussions about the project being abandoned or no longer pursued, including when he 'decided not to do the project,' who he spoke to about that decision, and what motivated the decision. The Office also again asked for the timing of the President's discussions with Cohen about Trump Tower Moscow and asked him to specify 'what period of the campaign' he was involved in discussions concerning the project. In response, the President's personal counsel declined to provide additional information from the President and stated that 'the President has fully answered the questions at issue.'"