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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCNN just had on about 10 minutes that many parts of the Steele Dossier are true.
The walls are closing in on Donny and Company.
And here is the smoking gun. The Steele Dossier said that Cohen met with
Russians and paid off hackers in the late summer of 2016 in Prague. Well
it looks like @ least Cohen's phone was there.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-the-michael-cohen-prague-story-true
On Dec. 27, McClatchy DCa reputable news outlet that broke the most important stories about the Iraq Warreported that cell phone tower records obtained by foreign intelligence sources place Michael Cohen (or at least his phone) in Prague in the late summer of 2016. The story says this information, as well as the fruits of electronic eavesdropping by an Eastern European intelligence agency that picked up discussion among Russians of Cohens presence in Prague, are now in the possession of the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
If the McClatchy story is true, it has huge implications for Donald Trump's survival in the presidency. But thats a major if; unlike many other scoops about the Mueller probe, no other outlet has been able to confirm McClatchys reporting. And the McClatchy reporters have made it clear that they have no corroborating evidence of their claims and that some of their sources are indirect at best.
The stakes are immense. If the McClatchy story is validated, it would strongly suggest that Mueller has evidence that in 2016 Trump sent his personal lawyer and fixer to Europe to meet with a high-ranking Kremlin official. The point of the meeting, if it occurred, was ostensibly to discuss Russian concerns that their intrusion in the presidential campaign on Trumps behalf might be exposed. This would confirm an important section of the (in)famous Steele dossier and offer major evidence of Trumps participation in a criminal conspiracy.
Paying off porn stars, obstruction of justice, corrupt Russian real estate dealstheyre all serious, even criminal, but not in the same league as Prague (or another place where Prague-like meetings might have taken place). A meeting or multiple meetings of this kind would be the crown jewels of what Mueller in court filings calls the core of his investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to interfere in the 2016 election.
spanone
(135,636 posts)Botany
(70,291 posts)And i might be wrong but that is reported to be the amount that the Steele Dossier said Cohen
paid the hackers.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)I want so many of the traitors to go down that I get tired of America "winning"
Moostache
(9,895 posts)It doesn't quite yet = "Pee Pee Tape is REALS"....yet, but it sure is damning for Asshat Shit-Gibbon that more and more of the information in the report has been confirmed or validated...
The moron-in-chief is guilty as hell, but I refuse to offer excuses to the people of this country that DID vote for him. Never in my life was there such a clearly unfit candidate for POTUS by ANY party as Trump in 2016...and yet, enough MILLIONS of my fellow Americans saw fit to vote for the court jester anyway.
If I have to live through this shit-show, then those voters MUST live WITH IT from now until the day they die...
Fuck Trump, but also fuck anyone who actually voted for that monster. We KNEW what he was before the election, EXACTLY what he was. No excuses and no shelter or absolution for his supporters. They should all roast in the same hell together.
SuprstitionAintthWay
(386 posts)Since election day 2016 I've told the people I know who voted for Soviet Agent Orange that regardless of whatever irresponsible things they might have done previously in their life, no matter how bad those other actions might have been, their Trump vote was the single MOST irresponsible thing that they've ever done.
Unless they've somehow managed to put American democracy itself at risk before, I believe the above to be true of every Trump voter.
Gothmog
(144,005 posts)Botany
(70,291 posts)But so far the total # of parts of the Steele Dossier that have been proven
false is zero.
babylonsister
(170,963 posts)seals it for me.
Botany
(70,291 posts)triron
(21,916 posts)UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)I want to thank you for reminding me of this with all the noise that is going on.
I really am going to sleep well tonight because this is one of the smoking guns..which I believe there are many.
FakeNoose
(32,356 posts)Does CNN get to see the version without all the blackouts? What about the other news media outlets? I don't know how they can say whether it's true if they haven't seen the entire report.
If they CAN see the entire report, then why can't we see it too?