Buzzfeed News' side of this controversy can be found here, with some additional details from the final Mueller report: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/bens

Buzzfeed News' side of this controversy can be found here, with some additional details from the final Mueller report: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/bensmith/how-we-characterized-michael-cohens-testimony https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/bensmith/how-we-charact... My take is that Mueller was trying so hard not to find Trump guilty that he bent over backwards to interpret Cohen's testimony in an unrealistically benign light, splitting hairs over whether Trump's coaching amounted to "directing" or not.