{"id":112185,"date":"2018-12-28T12:52:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T16:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=112185"},"modified":"2018-12-28T12:52:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T16:52:45","slug":"somebodys-lying-about-cohen-being-in-prague-and-its-probably-mueller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=112185","title":{"rendered":"Somebody&#8217;s lying about Cohen being in Prague&#8211;and it&#8217;s probably Mueller!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Cohen Denies 2016 Prague Trip: &#8220;Mueller Knows Everything&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen has denied a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/news\/investigations\/article219016820.html\">Thursday report<\/a>\u00a0that he was in Prague in the summer of 2016 to meet with Russian officials.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cohen_1_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cohen_1_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"308\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-112186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cohen_1_1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cohen_1_1-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If true, the\u00a0claim which would support the infamous &#8220;Steele Dossier&#8221; &#8211; a collection of opposition research on the Trump Campaign during the 2016 US election. The dossier was funded\u00a0in part by Hillary Clinton&#8217;s campaign\u00a0and used by the FBI to justify spying on the Trump campaign.<\/p>\n<p><em>McClatchy<\/em>\u00a0reported on Thursday that a phone traced to Cohen &#8220;briefly sent signals ricocheting off cell towers in the Prague area in late summer 2016,&#8221; a report which echoed their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-04-14\/mueller-has-evidence-michael-cohen-traveled-prague-according-report-cohen-hits-back\">April\u00a0<\/a>claim\u00a0that special counsel Robert Mueller had evidence of Cohen&#8217;s trip &#8211; which\u00a0FBI and CIA sources told\u00a0a Pulitzer Prize-winning\u00a0<em>Washington Post\u00a0<\/em>reporter that\u00a0<strong>they<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-12-16\/fbi-cia-told-wapo-they-doubted-key-allegation-steele-dossier\">didn&#8217;t believe<\/a>\u00a0Cohen took.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday afternoon\u00a0Cohen tweeted: &#8220;I hear #Prague #CzechRepublic is beautiful in the summertime. I wouldn\u2019t know as I have never been. #Mueller knows everything!&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I hear <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Prague?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Prague<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CzechRepublic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CzechRepublic<\/a> is beautiful in the summertime. I wouldn\u2019t know as I have never been. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Mueller?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Mueller<\/a> knows everything!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Michael Cohen (@MichaelCohen212) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichaelCohen212\/status\/1078400493494390784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cohen became ensnared in the Russia investigation earlier this year, after the FBI raided his Manhattan office and hotel room on a referral from Mueller. Cohen pleaded guilty to a slew of unrelated federal charges in August and later admitted to lying to Congress about plans to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, striking a plea deal with the special counsel to cooperate in the probe.<\/p>\n<p>Mueller is investigating whether members of the Trump campaign coordinated with Moscow to interfere in the election and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/national-security\/420357-mueller-files-memo-crediting-cohen-with-significant-help-in-probe\">has said that<\/a>\u00a0Cohen provided valuable information and went to significant lengths to assist the investigation. Cohen has since been sentenced to three years in prison for his crimes. &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/national-security\/423059-cohen-denies-traveling-to-prague-in-2016-mueller-knows-everything\">The Hill<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier this month we reported that FBI\u00a0email exchanges &#8211; kept from Congressional investigators for over two years, revealed that the agency was aware that the US intelligence community doubted the reliability of Steele Dossier.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The email exchanges show the FBI was aware \u2014 before it secured the now-infamous warrant \u2014 that\u00a0<strong>there were intelligence community concerns about the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/trey-gowdy-well-never-know-if-the-fbi-had-enough-to-spy-on-carter-page-without-the-trump-dossier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reliability of the main evidence<\/a>\u00a0used to support it: the Christopher Steele dossier.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The exchanges also indicate\u00a0<strong>FBI officials were aware that Steele<\/strong>, the former MI6 British intelligence operative then working as a confidential human source for the bureau,\u00a0<strong>had\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/hilltv\/rising\/409817-russia-collusion-bombshell-dnc-lawyers-met-with-fbi-on-dossier-before\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">contacts with news media<\/a>\u00a0reporters before the FISA warrant was secured<\/strong>. &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/hilltv\/rising\/419901-fbi-email-chain-may-provide-most-damning-evidence-of-fisa-abuses-yet\">The Hill<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On August 21 Cohen pleaded guilty in New York to tax evasion, bank fraud and making an illegal campaign contribution to porn star Stormy Daniels, for which he was sentenced to three years in federal prison on December 12.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-12-28\/cohen-denies-2016-prague-trip-mueller-knows-everything\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-12-28\/cohen-denies-2016-prague-trip-mueller-knows-everything<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cohen Denies 2016 Prague Trip: &#8220;Mueller Knows Everything&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}