Posted on 04/14/2018 9:35:15 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
'I have NEVER been there!' Trump's attorney Michael Cohen hits back at claims Robert Mueller 'has evidence he visited Prague in 2016' to meet a Putin ally
Cohen hit back at McClatchy report, saying he was in LA with his son, not Prague
New report claims Special Counsel has evidence of Cohen visit to Prague
Steele dossier claimed he met with a close Putin ally there in late summer 2016
Cohen has vociferously denied the trip and even produced his passport
Michael Cohen, the embattled personal attorney of Donald Trump, has denied fresh reports that Special Counsel Robert Mueller obtained evidence he visited Prague in 2016.
'No matter how many times or ways they write it, I have never been to Prague. I was in LA with my son. Proven!' Cohen wrote in a withering tweet on Saturday.
'Bad reporting, bad information and bad story by same reporter Peter Stone,' he wrote.
Cohen was referring to a McClatchy report on Friday, which cited two sources claiming that Mueller's investigators traced evidence that Cohen entered the Czech Republic through Germany in August or September of 2016.
British ex-spy Christopher Steele's dossier claimed the purpose of the trip was to meet with a prominent ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Konstantin Kosachev, but it is not clear whether Mueller has evidence of such a meeting.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Has it occurred to anyone that if Russia really wanted to screw with the American political system, that they would now start planting false evidence for Mueller to find showing collusion between Trump and Russia? It would guarantee impeachment, tying us up for a year or so. They would also be able to get back at Trump for the actions he has taken that have not been in Russia’s interest.
Just a thought.
My guess is there are at least 10 Lawyers in NYC named Michael Cohen alone. The probability of one of them being in Prague at the time in question is likely.
Precisely. Great minds think alike.
Italy, July 07-17. Nice place, 12+ hr drive to CZ if needed. 2 hour flight.
All I know is that this dude Cohen had better be telling the truth.
Mueller knows that if you draw your sword to strike at the king, you had better throw away your scabbard.
He will not stop.
Jeff was a great senator. He stopped a massive amnesty almost alone back in 2008 when Bush 43 tried to shove it down our throats. What he’s allowing to happen now to Trump. is just beyond belief, really.
the best way to neuter mueller would involve the use of a dull butter knife
I saw something that said Cohen admitted to being in Italy in in July 2016.
I have no idea if that is true.
You might have missed the fact that the 2 authors of the McClatchy piece claim they have two sources for the story.
They are trying to backfill. It was reasonable for them to seek surveillance of Trump campaign because this hardly a lawyer dude was in Prague. So some guy named Cohen was in Prague, but not the Cohan who works for Donald Trump. Just because they did not make sure it was the same guy doesn’t matter. They were hot on the trail. Of nothing but a made up ploy by the Hillary campaign. Nixon’s folks were slackers in comparison.
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Mueller: "Mr. Cohen, you say you stayed on the Italian island of Capri and spent time with a Mr. Steven Van Zandt?
Michael Cohen: "That's right."
Mueller: Do you deny that Mr. Van Zandt was a Soprano?"
Michael Cohen: "Well, uh, yeah, he..."
Mueller: "Do you deny that you look like Michael Corleone in Godfather III?" (Getty Image)
Michael Cohen: "I, uh, if so I'm not sure how that ..."
Mueller: "Do you deny that Italy is where the mafia originated, Mr. Cohen?"
Michael Cohen: "The mafia?"
Mueller: "And is it not true that the Russian mob in New York, where your office is, is sometimes referred to as the Russian Mafia?"
Michael Cohen: (speechless)
Mueller: "Aha! Gotcha!!!"
Traveling to Prague is not a crime...yet.
OOF: Court filing reveals Feds had ‘covert wiretaps’ on Michael Cohen’s email accounts
Posted at 7:08 pm on April 13, 2018 by Greg P.
In a court filing released on Friday, federal prosecutors revealed that they have already obtained search warrants for Michael Cohen’s emails and “covert wiretaps” have been in place for some time now:
Breaking: Court filing reveals prosecutors obtained “covert” search warrants on multiple email accounts of #MichaelCohen, showing “Cohen is in fact performing little to no legal work, and that zero emails were exchanged with President Trump.”
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) April 13, 2018
Feds also tell the court they’ve been secretly reading Cohen’s emails from multiple accounts for a while now. pic.twitter.com/xLHuH8uIbA
— Ari Melber (@AriMelber) April 13, 2018
From the filing (pages 12-13)
Fourth, the USAO-SDNY has specific reason to doubt that the seized materials will
include the volume and nature of attorney-client communications that Cohen claims. This is because the USAO-SDNY has already obtained search warrants – covert until this point – on multiple different email accounts maintained by Cohen, and has conducted a privilege review of the materials obtained pursuant to those warrants. The results of that review, as reported by the USAO’s Filter Team, indicate that Cohen is in fact performing little to no legal work, and that zero emails were exchanged with President Trump.
And if they have the emails, they may have phone calls as well:
NEW: Trump called Michael Cohen today to talk. Notable because:
-Cohen is now under criminal investigation
-Cohen is under (lawful) surveillance (if emails are searched, calls could be too)
-It’s dangerous for subjects to talk to each other in a probehttps://t.co/1PrgHASisH
— Ari Melber (@AriMelber) April 13, 2018
More from the filing…
Prosecutors argued that Cohen’s “lack of truthfulness” led to the FBI raid (couple this with the report above that they were already reading his emails):
DOJ says the criminal investigation of Cohen, the president’s attorney, is for offenses “which sound in fraud and evidence a lack of truthfulness.” (Which it says helps explain the decision to execute a warrant and not just ask for records.) pic.twitter.com/a3V82xS7jt
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) April 13, 2018
They’re also using Trump’s own words against him to argue there’s not attorney-client privilege because he said publicly that he didn’t know Cohen paid off Stormy Daniels:
DOJ uses President Trump’s comments that he didn’t know about the $130,000 payment to @StormyDaniels to argue that communications on the subject would not be privileged. pic.twitter.com/pgoJpchWui
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) April 13, 2018
The feds also argued Cohen is not “currently engaged in any significant practice of law”:
The Feds allege Michael Cohen doesn’t really practice law anymore, mostly does stuff for Trump, and that they have sensitive proof of it – thus redacted: pic.twitter.com/vyCHQf1y0Y
— Ari Melber (@AriMelber) April 13, 2018
Trump, however, is arguing that every email between Cohen and any Trump Organization employee is privileged:
President Trump’s private business has already notified DOJ that it considers “each and every” communication between Cohen and people working for the company to be privileged. pic.twitter.com/6gHLK0xccX
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) April 13, 2018
You might have missed the fact that the 2 authors of the McClatchy piece claim they have two sources for the story.
Well that proves it.
Whatever.
Best of luck.
“Maybe each author is counting the other author as a source. LOL”
You jet.
We have learned that a story fed to the media by the DOj/FBI IS enough to validate the same story in front of a FISA judge.
So you may be closer to the truth than the FBI
“I don’t really need the sarcasm tag do I?”
Sarcasm? This scenario is likely to be a movie in the near future explaining just how devious this guy is. Stand by for your royalties.
No he won’t, but getting rid of the president at all costs means the destroying the country as well. It’s absolutely disgraceful that men like Robert Mueller are in positions of power in this country. How can these people live with themselves? I guess they have no fear of hell!
Mueller is trying to make Cohen sweat.
Or maybe Cohen was shuttled to Prague in an SR-71?
LOL!
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