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2018.11.30

Big Week for the Mueller Investigation

Liar Liar Pants on Fire


FBI Special Council Robert S. Mueller III, Michael Cohen, and Paul Manafort
  FBI Special Council Robert S. Mueller III, Michael Cohen, and Paul Manafort

It's been quite a week for the FBI investigation into President Trump and Russia's interference in the 2016 elections, with two news stories emerging this week regarding the investigation that had otherwise been quiet for a while.

Boiled down, both Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen had fibbed to the FBI during the course of its investigation.

For Manafort, it could mean his deal with federal prosecutors is in jeopardy, because prosecutors charge he lied to investigators even after having reached a plea agreement. 1 Cohen, on the other hand, pled guilty to lying to Congress, saying that he was trying to keep his story aligned with what Mr. Trump was telling the news.

President Trump commented on Cohen this morning, calling him "weak" and saying that he was out to save his own skin. According to The Washington Post, the president is identified as "Individual 1" in Cohen's guilty plea.2

The same report characterized the president as "a central figure of [the] probe into whether Trump’s campaign conspired with the Russian government during the 2016 campaign."



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