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Trouble for Trump after report says he asked lawyer to lie to Congress

Democrats in the US House of Representatives promised to investigate President Donald Trump's dealings with his personal lawyer Michael Cohen.

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Karen Freifeld and David Morgan | Reuters
Two leading Democrats in the US House of Representatives promised to investigate President Donald Trump's dealings with his personal lawyer Michael Cohen after a media report said Trump directed Cohen to lie to Congress in violation of law.

The BuzzFeed news website, citing two law enforcement officials involved in an investigation of the matter, said on Thursday that Trump and Cohen hatched a plan to continue efforts to build a Trump Tower in Russia during Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. After Trump won the election, he personally directed Cohen, who has pleaded guilty to lying to Congress and has been cooperating

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