BREAKING: BuzzFeed out over their skis on Trump 'bombshell'

"Third down and this much to go"

As usual, it turns out the bomb was a dud. Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office pushed back on the "BOMBSHELL" report promulgated by BuzzFeed [Fake] News on Thursday.

In a statement to BuzzFeed News, a spokesperson for special counsel Robert Mueller's office wrote:

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.

BuzzFeed cited two anonymous law enforcement sources in its report alleging that President Donald Trump had instructed his former lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress and that Cohen briefed the Trump family on a regular basis about a real estate project in Russia.

"Now the two sources have told BuzzFeed News that Cohen also told the special counsel that after the election, the president personally instructed him to lie — by claiming that negotiations ended months earlier than they actually did — in order to obscure Trump’s involvement," BuzzFeed reported on Thursday.

Remember, in 2017 Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to Senate and House intelligence committees about when the negotiations regarding a potential Trump Tower Moscow project ended. He originally claimed they ended January 2016; but the negotiations went on a month beyond his claim.

He lied, Cohen claimed, to 'minimize links between the Moscow Project and Individual 1 [generally believed to be Trump], with the express hope of 'limiting the ongoing Russia investigations.'"

The Trump-hating media had a field day with the story with caveats such as: "if it's true, then Trump will be impeached."

But the news from Mueller's office sparked intense reaction on social media:

RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel tweeted:

"The entire premise of this story, which received wall-to-wall coverage, was based on 'evidence' the reporters admitted they never even saw. Who could've predicted that the publishers of the phony dossier would get this wrong, too?"

The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald tweeted:

"24 straight hours of completely uncritical, mindless, hysterical cable news coverage on a story - complete with calls for impeachment - that Muller's office now says was fundamentally false. This has happened over and over in the Trump/Russia story. Why don't people trust media??"

So there we have it. The president is scheduled to speak to the country today at 4 p.m. ET. He was originally scheduled to speak at 3 p.m. but it has been rescheduled. It will be about the border wall, many folks believe, but with President Trump, you never know.


Will 2019 be the year you follow Brain Flushings and have a few laughs while you get a conservative viewpoint? Let's hope so, because politics is the new NFL without the mindless kneeling and this blog will both inform you and hopefully entertain you bigly.



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