Jackson Lee also pushed the story.

“Incredible,” she wrote. “@realDonaldTrump suborned #perjury.”

Incredible. @realDonaldTrump suborned #perjury so that @MichaelCohen212 would lie to #Congress and obstruct its investigation into whether a hostile foreign power subverted our democracy-oh, and his campaign may have colluded, too #trumprussia #Collusion https://t.co/DLObIV2fZ3

— Sheila Jackson Lee (@JacksonLeeTX18) January 18, 2019

As with many bombshell reports throughout Russiagate, the BuzzFeed story fell apart under further scrutiny. Mueller’s spokesman issued a statement saying that the article was inaccurate.

Cohen later testified that while he believed that Trump wanted him to lie about Trump Tower, his former boss did not specifically tell him to lie about the project.

The Mueller report said: “Cohen said that he and the President did not explicitly discuss whether Cohen’s testimony about the Trump Tower Moscow project would be or was false, and the President did not direct him to provide false testimony. Cohen also said he did not tell the President about the specifics of his planned testimony.”

Eric Swalwell, House Intelligence and House Judiciary Committees

Swalwell has aggressively pushed the conspiracy theory that the Trump campaign worked with the Russian government. In a recent exchange on Fox News, Swalwell refused to acknowledge that the dossier’s claim about Cohen visiting Prague was inaccurate.

“Which part of it hasn’t been proven factual?” Swalwell asked Fox News host Martha MacCallum when challenged about the dossier in a March 27 interview.

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