In an article published in The New Republic Wednesday a national security expert says that President Donald Trump committed crimes publicly, as he convinced his allies to lie to law enforcement for him.

According to investigative journalist Marcy Wheeler, a national security expert, Trump repeatedly suborned perjury “in plain sight” and has never been charged or convicted.

It was one week ago today that the controversial BuzzFeed News report was published accusing Trump of ordering his attorney/fixer Michael Cohen to commit perjury by lying to Congress while under oath. And, Wheeler wrote, that was “the first known example of Trump explicitly telling a subordinate to lie directly about his own dealings with Russia.”

However, she said, there were many other times prior to the Cohen testimony before Congress when the president also convinced people to lie for him, which is a felony, subject to fines and imprisonment up to 20 years.
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There is still a certain mystery about the BuzzFeed News report that was published last Thursday. Mueller’s office disputed some of the details in the article, but did not specify which ones. They also did not clearly dispute the main point of the article, which was that Trump had ordered Cohen to lie under oath. - PoliticusUSA