Cohen’s Account Of Russia Talks Raises Questions About Trump Jr. 2017 Testimony

Donald Trump Jr.’s account of his family’s real estate negotiations with powerful Russians, which he gave to Congress in 2017, contrasts with the new version of events given Thursday by his father’s former fixer in federal court Thursday.

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Editor’s note: An earlier version of this report mischaracterized an answer Donald Trump Jr. gave to Senate investigators in 2017 about the prospective projects his family was negotiating with people in Moscow.

The story reported that Trump Jr.’s response — that negotiations on one project concluded by the end of 2014 — contrasted with the version of events as laid out in the guilty plea by Michael Cohen on Thursday. In fact, Trump Jr. and investigators were alluding to a different set of negotiations — not to a deal that Cohen was reportedly pursuing. Trump Jr. did acknowledge in his testimony that Cohen and another man were exploring a possible deal in Moscow in 2015 or 2016.