Noah Feldman, Columnist

Cohen Shows How Hard It Is to Tie Trump to His Lies

His testimony demonstrates the unlikelihood of a smoking gun on Russia and collusion.

February 27, 2019 at 8:49 PM UTC

Noah Feldman is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A professor of law at Harvard University, he is author, most recently, of “To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People."

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If you’re looking for the most important sentence in Michael Cohen’s testimony Wednesday to the House Oversight and Reform Committee, here it is:

“Mr. Trump did not directly tell me to lie to Congress. That’s not how he operates.”