BuzzFeed issues defiant statement after Robert Mueller's carefully worded denial
Robert Mueller in the Oval Office on July 20, 2012. (Photo by Pete Souza.)
January 18, 2019
On Friday, Buzzfeed News issued a statement saying that they stand by their reporting that President Donald Trump directed his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, to lie to Congress.
In a rare move, Special prosecutor Robert Mueller issued a statement refuting parts of the story.
"In response to the statement tonight from the Special Counsel's spokesman: We stand by our reporting and the sources who informed it, and we urge the Special Counsel to make clear what he's disputing," Buzzfeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith tweeted.
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