Mueller's Office Confirms Buzzfeed's Trump-Cohen Story Is Fake News

Update 2: In an almost unprecedented event - having rarely commented on stories related to the special counsel's investigation - Robert S. Mueller III's office put out a statement firmly disputing the reporting of the news site BuzzFeed reported that the president instructed his personal attorney to lie to Congress about his push for a Moscow real estate project.

"BuzzFeed's description of specific statements to the Special Counsel's Office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen's Congressional testimony are not accurate," the special counsel's office said.

As The Hill reports, BuzzFeed had released a statement earlier Friday defending the reporters behind the story and saying that it "stands by this story 100%," and for his part, Cohen adviser Lanny Davis refused to confirm or deny the report during an interview with MSNBC on Friday afternoon.

President Trump retweeted a few social media reactions…

I told you all that the BuzzFeed story was nonsense. pic.twitter.com/gbTXPjpVtk

— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) January 19, 2019

We called it. FAKE NEWS!

“More Buzzfeed B.S.” https://t.co/aOIPJJu0vH

— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) January 19, 2019.

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