Here's a list of 77 lies and falsehoods called out in the Mueller report
Updated 2011 GMT April 30, 2019Washington
Separately, Mueller notes"In a statement on May 16, 2017, the White House said:"While the President has repeatedly expressed his view that General Flynn is a decent man who served and protected our country, the President has never asked Mr. Comey or anyone else to end any investigation, including any investigation involving General Flynn. . . . This is not a truthful or accurate portrayal of the conversation between the President and Mr. Comey." ...
Sarah Sanders falsely told The New York Times on May 11, 2017, that Trump hadn't asked for Comey's loyalty. He had, Mueller found."After Comey's account of the dinner became public, the President and his advisors disputed that he had asked for Comey's loyalty." Mueller then notes a New York Times story"quoting Sarah Sanders as saying, '[The President] would never even suggest the expectation of personal loyalty.
Flynn also falsely stated that he did not remember a follow-up conversation in which Kislyak stated that Russia had chosen to moderate its response to those sanctions as a result of Flynn's request."Michael Flynn's deputy, KT McFarland, provided false information to Washington Post columnist David Ignatius about Flynn's calls with Sergey Kislyak. She claimed the calls took place before the new sanctions were announced and that sanctions didn't come up.
Reince Priebus wrongly said during an interview with Meet the Press on January 15, 2017, that Flynn did not discuss sanctions with the Russian ambassador.Mueller found that"in subsequent media interviews in mid-January, Pence, Priebus, and Spicer denied that Flynn and Kislyak had discussed sanctions, basing those denials on their conversations with Flynn." ...
Trump transition official Steve Bannon and Trump associate Erik Prince provided conflicting accounts to the special counsel about whether Bannon knew about a meeting in Seychelles between Prince and Kirill Dmitriev -- who runs Russia's sovereign wealth fund. Prince claimed that he told Bannon about the meeting with Dmitriev in January 2017, but Bannon denied such a conversation ever took place. The special counsel could not determine who gave correct information.
Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, who is now a senior White House adviser, met with a prominent Russian government banker in December 2016. When Mueller's investigators asked about that encounter, Kushner claimed nobody on the transition team prepared for the meeting."Kushner stated in an interview that he did not engage in any preparation for the meeting and that no one on the Transition Team even did a Google search for Gorkov's name...
Mueller adds:"Cohen understood based on this conversation and previous conversations about pardons with the President's personal counsel that as long as he stayed on message, he would be taken care of by the President, either through a pardon or through the investigation being shut down.
Corsi claimed that during a conference call he told employees at the website WND to contact Assange before the Access Hollywood video was published and stolen emails from John Podesta were released on October 7, 2016. Corsi also told the special counsel that he had informed them that the Access Hollywood tape was coming. However, the special counsel could find no evidence that this was true.
"The statement did not mention the offer of derogatory information about Clinton or any discussion of the Magnitsky Act or U.S. sanctions, which were the principal subjects of the meeting"Donald Trump's personal attorney Jay Sekulow in July 2017 denied on Good Morning America, Meet the Press and to CNN that the President was involved in writing the statement from Donald Trump Jr. about the Trump Tower meeting- even though Trump had dictated the statement that his son issued.
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"In late August 2017, in advance of his testimony, Cohen caused a two-page statement to be sent to SSCI and HPSCI addressing Trump Tower Moscow ... Cohen represented that he never agreed to travel to Russia in connection with the project and never considered asking Trump to travel for the project."Cohen lied in a statement to Congress about President Trump's involvement in the Trump Tower Moscow project. Cohen downplayed the amount of times he discussed the project with Trump.
This is counted as two false assertions by Cohen, because Mueller notes that Cohen provided his written statement to two separate congressional committees investigating Russia and the election -- the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
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