Hmmm ok- interesting to note that Cohen didn’t deny this (whereas he has denied the Prague story). I am almost relieved because I don’t want the Dem House to focus just on this and perhaps impeach due to this without the full input of Mueller and his findings.
This reminds me of the one story during Watergate that Woodward and Bernstein had one fact wrong - that the witness had never been asked a specific question - while their article said he had.
All the Nixon people went all over TV saying see…it’s nothing but made up ■■■■■■■■ and it’s a witch hunt.
Probably Mueller’s thinking in breaking silence for the first time. He didn’t want his anti Trump friends in the House to start this big impeachment process and have it all turn to ■■■■ in the middle of it.
The obvious answer: a leak was implied by the report. I was kind of skeptical yesterday, on those grounds. Mueller decided that an implied leak, which contained fundamentally incorrect assertions, should not be allowed to stand. Sort of an anti-leak maneuver.
Mueller’s team has not denied other reports from participants such as witnesses, who can say whatever they want, which have turned out to be confirmed.