Ted Lieu: COLLUSION!

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Ted Lieu @tedlieu 37m37 minutes ago
GOP & @realDonaldTrump used Michael Cohen's denials that he was never in Prague to cast aspersions on the damning Steele Dossier, which stated Cohen was in Prague meeting with Russians in 2016.

Why are folks leaking this info? Maybe because the Steele Dossier has lots of truth.

Link to tweet

[manor321]

1. I wouldn't be surprised if Trump's side leaked this to get ahead of it.

[OMGWTF]

41. They're Not That Smart

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Conspiracy to defraud the United States of America. This is the charge, right DU lawyers?

[Shell_Seas]

3. Yet, the right still says they see no evidence.

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. To be fair, they only watch fox and breitbart so they actually havent seen any other than

the ten millions times they have seen rump commit treason on live TV several different occasions.

I know, we arent at war. WHAT do you CALL it when your president sides with our enemy at the COST of our country?

I know what you/they would call it if a democrat did a fraction of this...




Elon Musk would get a phone call from said democrat:

Said Democrat: "Elon, I have commited multiple crimes including emoluments clause, lying under oath, obstructing justice and working with a foreign government to influence an election, can you build me a spaceship because the ONLY place I will be safe is Mars?"

Elon Musk: "Sure, just send me a check"

[uponit7771]

34. +1, this is 75% of the reason they support him imho !!!

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4. Philip Bump from April: Why Cohen visiting Prague would be remarkably significant.

Philip Bump @pbump 2h2 hours ago
From April: Why Cohen visiting Prague would be remarkably significant.

It suggests that Cohen took over management of the relationship with Russia after campaign chairman Paul Manafort was fired from the campaign in August (because of questions about his relationship with a political party in Ukraine). Cohen is said to have met secretly with people in Prague — possibly at the Russian Center for Science and Culture — in the last week of August or the first of September. He allegedly met with representatives of the Russian government, possibly including officials of the Presidential Administration Legal Department; Oleg Solodukhin (who works with the Russian Center for Science and Culture); or Konstantin Kosachev, head of the foreign relations committee in the upper house of parliament. A planned meeting in Moscow, the dossier alleges, was considered too risky, given that a topic of conversation was how to divert attention from Manafort’s links to Russia and a trip to Moscow by Carter Page in July. Another topic of conversation, according to the dossier: allegedly paying off “Romanian hackers” who had been targeting the Clinton campaign...

Cohen showed his passport to BuzzFeed. The only travel into the proper area indicated by passport stamps was a trip to and from Italy from July 9 to 17. But note that this is too early for Steele’s time frame — and for the assertion that it was a response to the firing of Manafort. How Cohen would have gotten to Prague is still unclear.

But this contradiction between a clear allegation from the Steele dossier and the assertion that it wasn’t true by Cohen and Trump helped drive the idea that the dossier was broadly discredited shortly after its release. Pick out the Prague trip and nothing that follows could have happened. Put the Prague trip back into the mix? A lot of the other parts of that allegation now become possible.* What’s more, it undermines the credibility of those who insisted that the claim was completely without merit.

Look at it another way: If the central conceit of the Steele’s claim were accurate — that Cohen was working with agents of the Russian government directly to aid Trump’s candidacy — it would be very hard to argue that no collusion took place. That likely requires Cohen’s having been in Prague.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/04/14/michael-cohen-visiting-prague-would-be-a-huge-development-in-the-russia-investigation/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.00e73df19049

[Eliot Rosewater]

6. How you know if they are lying, other than their lips are moving, is how adamant they are

that something isnt true.

Is there a way he could have taken this trip without a trail of any kind?

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7. some fixer

...can't fathom how a burner phone works.

[Eliot Rosewater]

9. So is the assumption that cohen has told mueller the truth about this and they have

confirmed it somehow?

I know that is the hope by patriots like myself but are we reading into what Ted is saying etc? Give me hope, I need it.

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16. I always take heed of what Ted says on Russia

...because like several others on key committees, he's seen and heard evidence which is still percolating in the Mueller probe.

When he says here that, "the Steele Dossier has lots of truth," I believe he speaks from personal knowledge of its unredacted contents.

[Eliot Rosewater]

18. And THIS is why he said it

A mobile phone traced to President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen briefly sent signals ricocheting off cell towers in the Prague area in late summer 2016, at the height of the presidential campaign, leaving an electronic record to support claims that Cohen met secretly there with Russian officials, four people with knowledge of the matter say.

During the same period of late August or early September, electronic eavesdropping by an Eastern European intelligence agency picked up a conversation among Russians, one of whom remarked that Cohen was in Prague, two people familiar with the incident said.

The phone and surveillance data, which have not previously been disclosed, lend new credence to a key part of a former British spy’s dossier of Kremlin intelligence describing purported coordination between Trump’s campaign and Russia’s election meddling operation.

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/investigations/article219016820.html

Fucking a...love it

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. Prob used it stupidly, like calling his apartment or office phone to check for messages. . . . nt

[CharleyDog]

29. If he just turned on the phone, to perhaps check his contacts list, the phone

might ping the tower to "check in" as cell phones are wont to do.

[mopinko]

27. kinda but not really.

this may be why he had a dozen phones when they raided his office.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

26. +1

[ffr]

8. Seeking out the help of an American adversary who says they are at war with us.

TRAITORS!

[Xipe Totec]

13. Maybe not treason, but possibly Rebellion or insurrection

18 U.S. Code § 2383 - Rebellion or insurrection

Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2383

[Catch2.2]

10. Lieu 2020!!!

Love this guy! More Dems need to be like him!

[Just a Weirdo]

24. Unfortunately hes Taiwanese American

Not eligible

[Kingofalldems]

11. Even Trump's internet troll pals will have no response

to this explosive revelation!

[AlexSFCA]

12. I am assuming Cohen told all that to Mueller already?

that he was in Prague and exactly what he was doing there?

[Shell_Seas]

30. Right, so Mueller already knows all of this.

[humbled_opinion]

39. I am sure that had Mueller

known Cohen was in Prague it would certainly have been one of the written questions that would require an answer, so there is that.

[Renew Deal]

14. Has Cohen admitted to the Prague trip?

Has the Prague trip been proven?

[OnDoutside]

17. No he hasn't. In fact Lani Davis doubled down on the no trip to Prague

Story, a couple of weeks ago.

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19. Natasha Bertrand weighed in on Lanny's denials

Natasha Bertrand @NatashaBertrand 2h2 hours ago
Replying to @Zigmanfreud @Isikoff

I mean, if Trump tasked Cohen with paying off Russians in Prague then Cohen is not the big fish here that Mueller would want. Prague is the biggest piece of the puzzle yet and it may have been Cohen’s leverage with the SCO—I’m not surprised that Lanny would continue to deny it.


twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1078338938111213578

[OnDoutside]

42. Thanks, that's very interesting.

[FakeNoose]

46. Didn't Cohen's wife go with him to Europe that summer?

Cohen's original story was that they went to Italy on vacation for their anniversary or something. He def said his wife was with him. Maybe she had the burner phone and maybe he used her phone so he wouldn't be traced? I hope Mueller has a way to check the GPS tracking on her phone. Then it wouldn't matter what he says - the GPS would tell the story.

[OnDoutside]

47. One thing we can be sure, is that Mueller knows it all. It's going to come out.

[calimary]

20. I Love Ted Lieu!

He’s right. Again!

[Kingofalldems]

21. Kick and rec.

[dalton99a]

22. Kick

[Tactical Peek]

23. Kick.

[H2O Man]

25. Recommended.

Thank you for this.

[0rganism]

28. ...a lonely German from Prague!

betcha 50 dollars
i'm a man
i'm a scholar
and i'm turn into a bug

[alfredo]

37. 1+

[Honeycombe8]

31. I don't follow this. This is old news, isn't it? It's still not clear whether Cohen was in Prague?

Doesn't Cohen still maintain he never went to Prague?

That the GOP & Trump used his denials against the dossier...that's old news, isn't it? Did something bring this up again recently?

UPDATE:
I found it. Apparently today it's being reported that some pings of Cohen's cell phone were discovered in the Prague area in late 2016, indicating that Cohen may have been in Prague. That would support the Trump-Russia connection.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/new-report-suggests-michael-cohen-was-prague-key-2016-moment

[Hulk]

32. COLLUSION....call it out.

...and throw in TRAITOR while you are at it.

Let’s learn something from the reich wingers, and that is “if you say it loud and often, it sticks in people’s heads. He is also a COWARD and a LIAR. Keep putting the labels to him. The “TRAITOR in chief”...the COWARD who sleeps in the White House. The LIAR who is single handedly destroying the America that too hundreds of years to build. In just two short years he has pissed all over our reputation and respect around the world. It was a mixed bag at bestbefore he arrived. He shit on it and lit a match.

[hughee99]

33. Why are folks leaking this info?

Hasn’t this been known for about 2 years that the Steele dossier claims Cohen made a trip to Prague in the summer of 16?

[alfredo]

40. Yes. Google "Trump Traitor"

[Pepsidog]

35. Please be true !

[enid602]

36. Investigation

This investigation could so easily have gone the way of the Warren Report or the 911 Report. Or Fitzmas.

[humbled_opinion]

38. The righty's have lost it.

I brought this report up to some Trumpets at my job and they told me that this was proof of Hillary's conspiracy to frame Trump, no shit they somehow now believe that Steele cloned Cohen's phone and used it in Prague in order to get evidence to Corroborate his dossier, LOL SMH.

[pnwmom]

43. Maybe they're trying to distract us with Prague, to keep us from paying attention

to Rosneft.

[red dog 1]

44. Kick!

[czarjak]

45. He was using shooting someone in the middle of 5th Ave. as cover!