BuzzfeedNews Bombshell Reporter: No We Have Not Seen the Evidence Supporting Our Report

by Colby Hall | Jan 18th, 2019, 8:24 am

Anthony Cormier is one of the two investigative reporter at BuzzfeedNews who co-authored the bombshell report published Thursday night — a report which claimed President Donald Trump directed his former lawyer Michael Cohen to lie during Congressional testimony over discussions between the Trump Organization and Russian authorities about a Trump Tower Moscow project.

Cormier appeared on CNN’s New Day and revealed that he had not seen the evidence underlying his report.

Host Alisyn Camerota opened the interview by asking Cormier if he had seen the evidence to which Cormier replied: “Not personally.” He then clarified that “he folks we have talked to — two officials we have spoken to are 100 percent read into that aspect of the Special Counsel’s investigation”

The suborning of perjury described in the report, if true, is a federal felony and the clearest evidence of obstruction of justice to date. Cormier’s admission that he had not seen the evidence of emails and texts cited in his article will certainly raise reasonable questions among Trump’s defenders and Republicans who have thus far been remarkably silent on this story since it broke Thursday night.

Despite the admission of having not seen the evidence in question, Cormier explained his sources with impressive detail.

“[Our sources] have been working the trump Moscow tower portion of the investigation…before Mueller. So they had access to a number of different documents, 302 reports which are interview reports,” he said, adding “That stuff was compiled as they began to look at who the players were speaking with, how the negotiations went, who all from the Trump organization and outside the organization were involved in getting that tower set up.”

Cormier proceeded to explain how “they begin to compile the evidence before Michael Cohen decided to cooperate and speak with the Special Counsel.”

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