Sources: Mueller has evidence Cohen was in Prague in 2016, confirming part of dossier

[Cirque du So-What]

WASHINGTON

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.

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article208870264.html#storylink=cpy

I respect McClatchy and consider this very important as the floor falls out from under tRumpCo.

[Arkansas Granny]

1. Has any of the info in the Steele dossier been proven false?

I know that not all the allegations have been verified, but I'm not aware of any of it being discredited.

[GregD]

2. Jake Tapper on CNN just said

that CNN received information in 2017 that it was a different Michael Cohen. And Cohen seems to be claiming he was in California.

Has anyone also heard this? Any opinions to the accuracy of Jake's claims?

[procon]

3. With two sources, McClatchy and the Steele Dossier, reporting on

Cohen's trip to Prague, that's enough to attract Mueller's attention. Mueller seems to be especially good at ferreting out all of the Russian contacts that are related to nefarious schemes of the Trump gang.