Yet another Trump ‘bombshell’ ends up being a hoax

Published January 19, 2019 2:35am ET



Another leak about President Trump, supposedly from federal prosecutors, and another media freakout.

This one was different from the earlier ones in its seriousness. Two reporters from BuzzFeed, citing two anonymous law enforcement officials, reported that Trump had instructed his former lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress, or at least that this accusation had been passed on to special counsel Robert Mueller.

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