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steve2470

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Fri Jan 18, 2019, 09:40 PM Jan 2019

Ronan Farrow (New Yorker): "I can't speak to Buzzfeed's sourcing, but, for what it's worth...." [View all]

I can’t speak to Buzzfeed’s sourcing, but, for what it’s worth, I declined to run with parts of the narrative they conveyed based on a source central to the story repeatedly disputing the idea that Trump directly issued orders of that kind.





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Note that the general thrust of Cohen lying to Congress “in accordance with” or “to support and advance” Trump’s agenda (per Cohen’s legal memo) is not in dispute. The source disputed the further, more specific idea that Trump issued—and memorialized—repeated direct instructions.



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