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Wallace on Report Trump Told Cohen to Lie to Congress: I Take It With a 'Giant Block of Salt'
Fox News ^ | Jan. 18, 2019 | Fox News

Posted on 01/18/2019 12:48:33 PM PST by Innovative

"Fox News Sunday" anchor Chris Wallace said a new report that President Trump directed his then-personal attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress could be huge, but it should be taken with "a giant block of salt" until definitive proof emerges.

The allegations were detailed in a BuzzFeed report published Thursday night. It cited two unnamed federal law enforcement officials involved in an investigation on the matter who said Cohen acknowledged to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office that he was instructed by Trump to lie to Congress in 2017 about discussions of a proposed Trump Tower project in Moscow.

The report, which has not been confirmed by Fox News, said Mueller’s office first learned of the directive from interviews with witnesses from the Trump Organization and internal company email, text messages and documents. It also said that Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. were briefed with regular

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: buzzfeed; chriswallace; cohen; congress; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; donaldtrumpjr; dumbshell; ivankatrump; jamescomey; lisapage; lying; mediawingofthednc; michaelcohen; partisanmediashills; peterstrzok; presstitutes; robertmueller; russia; smearmachine; trump
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To: loveliberty2

Winner...Wallace is a rat. A neverTrumper. A Trump hater.

You’re right, that’s his way of keeping the story out there.


21 posted on 01/18/2019 1:36:55 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Cocked, locked and ready to ROCK!)
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To: Innovative

Cohen is in the grips of years in prison totally unrelated to Donald Trump. He did some bad things and was caught in the vendetta of Mueller against Trump

Today he will say anything Mueller tells him to say to save his own sorry ass.


22 posted on 01/18/2019 1:48:38 PM PST by cpdiii ( canecutter, deckhand, roughneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR)
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To: rktman

No other media have been able to source it although they are all trying very hard. LOL


23 posted on 01/18/2019 1:52:17 PM PST by marajade (Skywalker)
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To: Innovative
Mueller almost broke Cohen's arm to make him say that.


24 posted on 01/18/2019 2:00:46 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: marajade

The reporters 3rd cousin has a friend who swears his girl friends mother told him that the librarian said........


25 posted on 01/18/2019 2:03:54 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman
The reporters 3rd cousin has a friend who swears his girl friends mother told him that the librarian said........



"Thank you, Simone."

26 posted on 01/18/2019 2:05:04 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: rktman

Axios said earlier on FNC that all they’ve been able to get is Cohen saying that Trump told him to lie to Congress to other Trump organization officials.

Cohen is a convicted perjurer, who would believe him?


27 posted on 01/18/2019 2:09:11 PM PST by marajade (Skywalker)
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To: marajade

EVERY leftwing extremist POS out there.


28 posted on 01/18/2019 2:12:06 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Innovative

Someone higher up must have gotten my email that Conservatives now call them Faux News and that one PMSNBC is enough.
It won’t last


29 posted on 01/18/2019 2:22:06 PM PST by Zathras
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To: Innovative
It also said that Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. were briefed with regular details about the real estate deal from Cohen.

Details such as Ivanka moving her family to Moscow to manage a spa in the hotel.

C'mon, who doesn't believe this?

30 posted on 01/18/2019 2:29:12 PM PST by Drew68
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To: Drew68

“Details such as Ivanka moving her family to Moscow to manage a spa in the hotel.”

This was what immediately spotlighted how false the story must be. I have a daughter who lived in Moscow for several months - quite an experience she has no desire to repeat. There is no way anyone in the Trump family would move there. Visit for a short period, ok, but not move there.


31 posted on 01/18/2019 2:34:05 PM PST by LibertyOh
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To: Innovative

Stunning. With more than ample evidence that Hillary Clinton and her campaign did what they did, media are shameless and in our face with the glaring inconsistencies.


32 posted on 01/18/2019 2:40:10 PM PST by Toespi
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To: Drew68

Even if true. why would there be a need to lie to congress about Trump wanting to build a hotel in Moscow?

Things like that don’t need to be hidden and likely got press coverage at the time


33 posted on 01/18/2019 2:40:55 PM PST by digger48
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To: LibertyOh
There is no way anyone in the Trump family would move there. Visit for a short period, ok, but not move there.

If you're a billionaire businessman, Moscow is where you send your kid who's always in trouble and can't stay out of the tabloids. Ivanka was managing a multimillion dollar fashion brand at the time (before liberals essentially devalued it by forcing it off the shelves). I can't exactly imagine her father saying, "Pack it up sweetie! You've got a spa to manage! And you might want to buy a shapka. It's gets cold where I'm sending you!"

34 posted on 01/18/2019 3:01:28 PM PST by Drew68
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To: Responsibility2nd
"...is full of (Obama)"

Aha, I get it. Full of Obama. Big pile of Obama. BullObama! HorseObama! You think your Obama smells sweeter than mine? When the Obama hits the fan. Now you've gone and stepped in the Obama. Obama-for-brains. No Obama, Sherlock! No WAY, you've gotta be Obamaing me. Holy Obama, that really stung.

35 posted on 01/18/2019 3:46:59 PM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC ("Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt" - Pr. Herbert Hoover)
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To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC

Heh. Obama is dumber than a pile of Obama.

I’ve used Obama as that metaphor for quite a while. It works, yes?


36 posted on 01/18/2019 3:58:37 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Waiting for the other shoe to drop ping.

37 posted on 01/18/2019 4:32:43 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: SunkenCiv

Fox news just reported a spokesman for MUELLER disputes the Buzz Feed report!


38 posted on 01/18/2019 4:44:37 PM PST by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement!)
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To: Innovative
More like Lanny Davis told his client, Michael Cohen, to lie. Lanny made a fortune lying and coaching the Clintons how to lie.
39 posted on 01/18/2019 6:14:16 PM PST by Kid Shelleen ((Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong))
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To: milagro; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ...
Yuppers, thanks milagro! Buzzfeed is fake news, so, no surprise there.

40 posted on 01/19/2019 1:13:07 AM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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