“Mr. Trump did not directly tell me to lie to Congress,” Cohen said, referring to his untrue assertion in a statement offered to congressional investigators in 2017 that discussions about a possible Trump-branded real estate project in Moscow had ended in January 2017. For this falsehood, Cohen reached a plea agreement with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III last year.
But Cohen continued:
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