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Botany

(70,291 posts)
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 07:36 PM Jan 2019

CNN 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 DC—a reputable news outlet that broke the most important stories about the Iraq War—reported 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 Cohen’s 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 that’s a major if; unlike many other scoops about the Mueller probe, no other outlet has been able to confirm McClatchy’s 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 Trump’s behalf might be exposed. This would confirm an important section of the (in)famous “Steele dossier” and offer major evidence of Trump’s participation in a criminal conspiracy.

Paying off porn stars, obstruction of justice, corrupt Russian real estate deals—they’re 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.

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CNN just had on about 10 minutes that many parts of the Steele Dossier are true. (Original Post) Botany Jan 2019 OP
K&R... spanone Jan 2019 #1
Funny that Cohen got $50,000 from the Trump Organization prior to his Prague trip. Botany Jan 2019 #4
I want a bunch of them indicted and jailed. Eliot Rosewater Jan 2019 #2
To date, NOTHING in the "dossier" has been proven false... Moostache Jan 2019 #3
Agree. SuprstitionAintthWay Jan 2019 #13
CNN-The Trump-Russia dossier: What's right, wrong and still unclear? Gothmog Jan 2019 #5
Gotta push "both sides are @ fault" fault meme Botany Jan 2019 #6
I bet it's all true. dt constantly squawking 'no collusion' babylonsister Jan 2019 #7
#s don't lie Botany Jan 2019 #8
At least 95% of it. triron Jan 2019 #12
It's valid and just like Cohen said.....#Muellerknowseverything. I want to thank you for this post. UniteFightBack Jan 2019 #9
Are they seeing the un-redacted version? FakeNoose Jan 2019 #10
Salacious' pee tape dossier dissected by CNN -- and much of it has already been proven true Gothmog Jan 2019 #11

Botany

(70,291 posts)
4. Funny that Cohen got $50,000 from the Trump Organization prior to his Prague trip.
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 07:49 PM
Jan 2019
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11614069

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)
2. I want a bunch of them indicted and jailed.
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 07:42 PM
Jan 2019

I want so many of the traitors to go down that I get tired of America "winning"

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
3. To date, NOTHING in the "dossier" has been proven false...
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 07:49 PM
Jan 2019

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.

13. Agree.
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 11:26 PM
Jan 2019

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.

Botany

(70,291 posts)
6. Gotta push "both sides are @ fault" fault meme
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 08:01 PM
Jan 2019

But so far the total # of parts of the Steele Dossier that have been proven
false is zero.

 

UniteFightBack

(8,231 posts)
9. It's valid and just like Cohen said.....#Muellerknowseverything. I want to thank you for this post.
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 08:06 PM
Jan 2019

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)
10. Are they seeing the un-redacted version?
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 08:08 PM
Jan 2019

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?



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