Russia connection with Cohen on April 13th, QUICK BOMB SOMEONE!

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

The Justice Department special counsel has evidence that Donald Trump’s personal lawyer and confidant, Michael Cohen, secretly made a late-summer trip to Prague during the 2016 presidential campaign, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

Confirmation of the trip would lend credence to a retired British spy’s report that Cohen strategized there with a powerful Kremlin figure about Russian meddling in the U.S. election.

It would also be one of the most significant developments thus far in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of whether the Trump campaign and the Kremlin worked together to help Trump win the White House. Undercutting Trump’s repeated pronouncements that “there is no evidence of collusion,” it also could ratchet up the stakes if the president tries, as he has intimated he might for months, to order Mueller’s firing.

Trump’s threats to fire Mueller or the deputy attorney general overseeing the investigation, Rod Rosenstein, grew louder this week when the FBI raided Cohen’s home, hotel room and office on Monday. The raid was unrelated to the Trump-Russia collusion probe, but instead focused on payments made to women who have said they had sexual relationships with Trump.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article208870264.html

We're leaving Syria. No wait, we're bombing the hell out of them.

Okay, I suppose it's possible these things are unrelated, but WOW!

I was honestly wondering why Cohen's home was being raided by Mueller who is investigating RUSSIAN collusion. Now, I get it. Now, I see why this had to be a no-knock warrant. This is critical, national security information that could have been easily destroyed by Cohen if he had notice.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

McClatchy news has two unnamed sources of this information.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. special counsel in the Russia probe has evidence that President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen traveled to Prague in 2016, refuting Cohen’s claim that he never visited the Czech capital and bolstering an intelligence dossier that first described the trip, McClatchy reported on Friday.

Investigators for Special Counsel Robert Mueller have evidence Cohen entered the Czech Republic through Germany in late summer 2016, McClatchy reported, citing two unnamed sources. The news agency said it was unclear whether Mueller’s investigators have evidence that Cohen met with a prominent Russian as the dossier claimed.

Mueller is investigating alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and possible collusion with the Trump campaign. Russia has denied meddling in the election and Trump has said there was no collusion.

The special counsel and an attorney for Cohen did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Reuters.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...en-traveled-to-prague-mcclatchy-idUSKBN1HL00J

 

[Artemus]

At this point, one of things that disturbs about the infamous dossier is that Steele was able to compile it so quickly with so much information that has now been shown to be accurate. How the hell was he able to do that???

 

[Copernicus]

At this point, one of things that disturbs about the infamous dossier is that Steele was able to compile it so quickly with so much information that has now been shown to be accurate. How the hell was he able to do that???

Steele already had a lot of contacts and sources of information from his time in MI6, and this kind of thing is what his company does. He actually worked on this for a number of months, with funding coming from different sources.

The news that Mueller has evidence to corroborate Cohen's trip to Prague, despite Cohen's continual strong denials, is a damning turn of events for Trump. Cohen is one of his closest confidants and has always played the role of brokering deals for him. He is alleged to have met with  Konstantin Kosachev, chair of the Russian Duma's Foreign Affairs committee, a close Putin ally and an individual under US sanctions. I don't know whether Kosachev was under sanctions at the time of the alleged meeting. Kosachev has also denied the meeting.

If true, this is strong evidence of a direct link between Trump and the Russian government during his campaign for the US presidency. It would have been blatantly illegal, and it would be something of a smoking gun in Mueller's investigation. And the fact that they may have evidence of this trip from the FBI raids on Cohen would make it hard to suppress, if Trump were to fire Rosenstein and Mueller. Those raids were part of a separate FBI investigation carried out by the Southern District of NY, not Mueller.