br According to Reuters, U.S. President Donald Trump said that he was grateful to Special Counsel Robert Mueller for a statement disputing a BuzzFeed News report that Trump directed his former lawyer to lie to Congress about a Moscow real estate deal. Trump told reporters, “I appreciate the special counsel coming out with a statement last night. I think it was very appropriate that they did so." The president continued to say that “the BuzzFeed piece was a disgrace to our country.