But bizarrely POTUS tweeted an hour after the document was filed in New York that it '[t]otally clears the President. Special counsel Robert Mueller's office filed documents saying that Cohen lied to investigators to protect Trump regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election. Trump was said to have received direct updates from Cohen as he pursued a Moscow Trump Tower project with the Kremlin up until June 14, 2016. Cohen told investigators that the entire projet was scrapped before the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary inJanuary 2016. 'He did so by orchestrating secret and illegal payments to silence two women who otherwise would have made public their alleged extramarital affairs with Individual-1,' he added, referring to President Trump.

Source: Daily Mail December 08, 2018 06:51 UTC