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Republicans Used to Care About Obstruction of Justice

The allegation that the president instructed his lawyer to lie must make them deeply politically uncomfortable.
Source: Mary Calvert / Reuters

It’s not clear if the story is really true. The previous sentence applies to so many things these days, but in this case refers to BuzzFeed News’s Thursday night report that President Donald Trump allegedly directed his attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about the Trump Tower project in Moscow.

had just two sources, both anonymous law-enforcement officials. Nobody, including Cohen, has corroborated the story. And on Friday night the special counsel’s spokesman issued a statement calling parts

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