President Donald Trump personally directed his long-term previous attorney Michael Cohen to lie Congress about the Moscow Trump Tower project. Two federal law enforcement authorities are engaged in an investigation of the matter told BuzzFeed.

The law enforcement authorities revealed to BuzzFeed that Trump directed Cohen to claim negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow which ended months earlier than they really did. The law enforcement sources revealed to BuzzFeed that Cohen confirmed to special counsel Robert Mueller’s group that Trump issued the order to lie Congress.

Mueller’s office learned Trump pressured Cohen to lie Congress through interviews with different witnesses from the Trump Organization, internal organization emails, instant messages, and other documents.

Proposed Trump Tower in Moscow (Photo/kxly.com)

When asked for comment, Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani told CNN, “If you believe Cohen I can get you a great deal on the Brooklyn Bridge.”

Cohen declined to comment to BuzzFeed, as did a representative for the special counsel’s office.

Democrats called for further investigation

President Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen (Photo/thehill.com)

Trump supported an arrangement to personally visit Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign, BuzzFeed reports, to personally meet with President Vladimir Putin to negotiate. As per BuzzFeed, Trump said to Cohen, “Make it happen.”

Democrats called for further investigation of the allegations, with Rep. Adam Schiff, chair of the House Intelligence Committee, saying the charge was “among the most serious to date.”

“We will do what’s necessary to find out if it’s true,” he tweeted Thursday.

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Eric Holder, previous attorney general under President Barack Obama, tweeted early Friday morning on Buzzfeed’s report: “If true – and proof must be examined – Congress must begin impeachment proceedings and Barr must refer, at a minimum, the relevant portions of material discovered by Mueller. This is a potential inflection point.”

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The law implementation sources familiar with Cohen’s declaration to Mueller’s office revealed to BuzzFeed that the President, Ivanka Trump, and Donald Trump Jr. received regular, detailed updates from Cohen about the Moscow project.

A representative for Ivanka Trump’s attorney told CNN in an announcement she was “only minimally involved” in the project.

“Ms. Trump did not know about this proposal until after a non-binding letter of intent had been signed, never talked to anyone outside the Organization about the proposal, never visited the prospective project site and, even internally, was only minimally involved,” Peter Mirijanian told CNN in the statement.

In September 2017, Trump Jr. affirmed before the House Judiciary Committee and was inquired as to whether he had any involvement in the potential project.

“I was peripherally aware of it, but most of my knowledge has been gained since as it relates to hearing about it over the last few weeks,” he said, according to a transcript of the interview.

The project would’ve given Trump’s organization a $4 million upfront fee

CNN recently got a report demonstrating Donald Trump had signed a letter of a goal to move forward with arrangements to build a Trump Tower in Russia, regardless of Giuliani at first claiming the document was never signed. After the report, Giuliani admitted he was incorrect and told CNN, “I probably meant to say there was never a deal, much less a signed one.”

CNN has recently revealed the project would’ve given Trump’s organization a $4 million upfront fee, no upfront costs, a percentage of the sales and control over marketing and design. The deal additionally included a chance to name the hotel spa after Ivanka Trump.

President Donald Trump (Photo/Getty Images – time.com)

Cohen confessed in November to making false statements to Congress about the Russia investigation. While confessing, Cohen said he and Trump had spoken more broadly about the propose Moscow Trump Tower project during the 2016 presidential election that he had admitted to Congress.

Cohen recently said things regarding the Moscow project had finished in January 2016. He said he lied out of a sense of obligation to Trump.

Cohen’s guilty plea revealed Cohen had been requesting assistance from authorities in the Russian government at a time when then-candidate Trump was praising Putin and repudiating any suggestion he was trying to do business in Russia. On a lot of occasions all through the campaign, Trump declared that he had “nothing to do with Russia.”

Cohen is coordinating with Mueller and has spoken with the special counsel’s office for over 70 hours on topics beyond the proposed Moscow project, a source with knowledge of the discussions told CNN.

Source – CNN

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