Trump lawyer Michael Cohen was meeting with Russian officials in August 2016

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The document also makes specific claims about contacts between people working for Trump and Russian officials. It alleges that Michael Cohen, special counsel to Trump, was central to “the ongoing secret liaison relationship between the New York tycoon’s campaign and the Russian leadership,” and that he met secretly with Kremlin officials in Prague in August 2016.

Reached by telephone on Tuesday night, Cohen denied the dossier’s allegations. The story is “totally fake, totally inaccurate,” Cohen said.

“I’m telling you emphatically that I’ve not been to Prague, I’ve never been to Czech [Republic], I’ve not been to Russia,” Cohen said. “The story is completely inaccurate, it is fake news meant to malign Mr. Trump.”

Cohen said that during the time the report places him in Prague, he was actually with his son visiting USC and meeting with the baseball coach. Cohen said that he was in Los Angeles from the 23rd through the 29th of August, and that the rest of the month he was in New York. He said that his only trip to an EU country over the summer had been a vacation to Italy in July.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/michael-cohen-it-is-fake-news-meant-to-malign-mr-trump/512762/

This is the real bombshell, not the golden showers story.

[Thrill]

1. He tweeted a pic of his passport saying he had never been to Prague

But its only the outside of the passport. lol

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3. You notice he doesn't deny the meeting -

just denies he was in Prague.

[flamingdem]

5. It was probably "Prague adjacent"

Hope he gets busted fast

[herding cats]

8. Prague is in the EU, Schengen applies there.

Open borders and no passport stamps for travel within.

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11. They think everyone is stupid and all they have to do is deny it.

[uponit7771]

2. +1, YES YES YES !!! This is the EMPIRICAL nugget in the report! There was a Russian diplomat...

... that admitted to having contact with MiniPee during the election.

[KittyWampus]

12. Yeah, certain things can be corroborated- travel etc. It's fun to make jokes

about making American Urinate again... but I hope people get over that fast.

[politicat]

4. He wouldn't have a passport stamp if he went from Italy to Czech Republic.

It's within the EU. Open borders. He gets off the plane in Italy, goes through customs there, gets his passport stamped... then can get on a train and go anywhere in the EU without getting another stamp.

That's the key. The August date may be wrong -- or it may have been the first couple of days of August -- but the cover of his passport is no guarantee of anything.

Let's hope someone is subpoenaing his credit card records for July-August and his passport.

[flamingdem]

6. This is just one item, some will be wrong but the overall idea is what counts and he knows it

but is counting on magic to distract by saying one item isn't true

[politicat]

9. Okay, I've read the whole report. About 20% is confirmed already.

I figure there's about another 20% that can be confirmed without sacrificing intel assets or getting much foreign cooperation.

That's a lot of smoke.

I'm not disagreeing at all that this is important. It is. It also reads as mostly accurate, if hard to prove. (It's a lot of gossip.) I'm just saying that Cohen's lie is easily disproved, or at very least, rendered unimportant.

Makes Watergate look like stealing a block of postits and a couple roller balls.

[AgadorSparticus]

7. Yep!!! We need to focus on THIS!!!! The pee sorry is a distraction.

[Tatiana]

10. So now we need the CIA or British friends to release the surveillance pic

That proves he's a liar....

I'm sure this meeting happened. There's a deeper level. Harry Reid has been apoplectic over something very disturbing that only a few people know about.

How deep have we, including the DNC, been infiltrated?

Trump has been cultivated by the Russians for over 5 years. Which other Republicans did they attempt to cultivate prior to Trump?

[uponit7771]

13. On the other hand I wouldn't let Benedict Donald's crew claim it was 100% wrong because 10% wasn't

... 200% right.

They'll do that, right now it looks like they might be up shit creek though.

I doubt if Pence can get away with an "I didn't know shit" claim either.