Brendan McDermid/Reuters BuzzFeed published a bombshell story in January saying that President Donald Trump ordered his former fixer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about plans for a Trump-branded skyscraper in Moscow. No other news outlet matched the story, and the redacted version of the special counsel Robert Mueller's report appears to discredit it. BuzzFeed's editor in chief issued a statement detailing the outlet's reporting, but the company has not retracted the story. Visit INSIDER.com for more stories. When BuzzFeed reported on January 17 that President Donald Trump ordered his former fixer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about plans for a Trump-branded skyscraper in Moscow, the upstart outlet framed the story as a revelation of historical importance — "the first known example of Trump explicitly telling a subordinate to lie directly about his own dealings with Russia" — and a vindication for BuzzFeed's ambitious newsroom. Unlike other bombshells to emerge from the Russia investigation, this was the first to unambiguously accuse the sitting president of committing such a serious crime — an impeachable offense, many said.