deep crap if he does.

wish it could be more

why most of the media fell for it.

Anyone can have more than one passport. And anyone can fly to one country in the EU and drive to another, without getting a new stamp on their passport.

The fact that Cohen produced that passport as evidence -- as if it meant anything -- always seemed very suspicious to me.

But seems to have slipped into the memory hole.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/anthonycormier/trumps-lawyer-showed-you-the-cover-of-his-passport-heres?utm_term=.vbjpJ0bVZ#.jo14Ko3v

This Is The Inside Of Trump’s Lawyer’s Passport

Michael Cohen gave BuzzFeed News exclusive access to his passport, saying it proves he couldn’t have attended an alleged secret meeting with Russian agents.

/snip
The stamps indicate he traveled abroad at least four times in 2016: twice to London, once to St. Maarten, and once to Italy in July. The Italian trip is the most intriguing, because it places Cohen in what’s known as the Schengen Area: a group of 26 European countries, including the Czech Republic, that allows visitors to travel freely among them without getting any additional passport stamps.

We traveled by train from Dresden to Prague, then to Berlin. Never once were we asked to show our passports or go through Customs.

The Italian trip was in July, which wouldn't fit with the August/September deadline. So he shared this with Buzzfeed as evidence that he hadn't been to Prague.

But since Cohen wouldn't have needed a passport stamp to travel to Prague from Germany (in August or September, as the dossier reports), these pages prove nothing.

A large part of Europe is party to a treaty that abolished border and passport controls among themselves - once you're in the area, you can travel freely within it without having your passport checked. I hold a US passport: even though I've visited Denmark, Austria, and Italy I don't have stamps from any of those countries because I entered and left the Shengen Area via Germany or Switzerland. The Czech Republic is part of this area: Cohen could have flown into, say, Paris or Frankfurt, then taken a connecting flight to Prague and his passport would only have shown French or German stamps.

taunts of judges and tweets, Trump has been trying to create sufficient confusion so this would all slip under that radar?

whoa....he entered thru Germany, which doesn't require a passport. He met with the Russians. 2016. Whoa. Confirming part of the Steele Dossier.

This keeps getting bigger and bigger.

One of a very few that did.

From Scott Dworkin “IMPORTANT EVIDENCE: Michael Cohen tweeted out he’d never been to Prague in his life. Later he told the Wall Street Journal he hadn’t been to Prague since 2001. Then he refused to answer further questions on it. And @WSJ never followed up. Dossier says he met w/Russians in Prague.”

My first thought on this NEWS was Mueller leaked this to confirm he has evidence of collusion.

Mueller has strategically leaked before, but I don't think this was him

The title says 'Mueller has evidence' he went to Prague. I take these things together to mean that Michael Cohen's going to jail.

Uh-oh...

Is a very big deal ... and collusion is becoming provable

Link to tweet

to hold together is unraveling. Knowledge is power, and leaders have to have knowledge or fall to those who do.

I'm guessing we don't know a fraction of what Ryan's been hoping would hold together of the shady Republican operators and operations entangled in this sleazy-to illegally corrupt-to-traitorous web.

Then there are the more everyday, very pervasive corrupt and immoral behaviors that are being outed more and more. Dark money brought in the kind of people who were happy to sell control of the nation's cookie jars, and dive in themselves.

If that's true, then the Trump campaign didn't just use information that was provided. They paid the hackers. That's much more serious.

It's just that the mainstream media never followed up on it.

Tapper was reporting what intelligence officials who investigated it said.

The wingnuts are using this "it was already debunked!" line as a talking point, and I'm looking for info to rebut that.

Mike Pompeo, for example?

"However, Democratic investigators for the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, which are conducting parallel inquiries into Russia’s election interference, also are skeptical about whether Cohen was truthful about his 2016 travels to Europe when he was interviewed by the panels last October, two people familiar with those probes told McClatchy this week. Cohen has publicly acknowledged making three trips to Europe that year – to Italy in July, England in early October and a third after Trump’s November election. The investigators intend to press Cohen for more information, said the sources, who lacked authorization to speak for the record

One of the sources said congressional investigators have “a high level of interest” in Cohen’s European travel, with their doubts fueled by what they deem to be weak documentation Cohen has provided about his whereabouts around the time the Prague meeting was supposed to have occurred.

Cohen has said he was only in New York and briefly in Los Angeles during August, when the meeting may have occurred, though the sources said it also could have been held in early September."


Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article208870264.html#storylink=cpy

Did Trump lawyer Michael Cohen secretly visit Prague to meet with Russians in 2016? The future of Donald Trump’s presidency could hinge on whether the answer to that question is yes.

That’s because the claim that such a meeting happened is one of the most specific claims in Christopher Steele’s dossier alleging collusion between the Trump team and Russia to influence the 2016 election — and because, since the very first day that dossier was publicly released, Cohen has adamantly denied taking any such trip, and Trump’s team has relied on that denial to dispute the dossier’s accuracy. “I have never been to Prague in my life. #fakenews,” Cohen tweeted on January 10, 2017, hours after the dossier was posted.

Yet a new report from McClatchy’s Peter Stone and Greg Gordon claims that special counsel Robert Mueller has evidence that Cohen did, in fact, enter Prague through Germany at the height of the 2016 campaign, in “August or early September.”

The McClatchy report is based on anonymous sources, and we don’t yet know what the purported evidence is. It could still prove to be mistaken. Cohen himself reiterated his denial again Saturday morning, telling CNN, “No, I have never been to Prague,” and sending this tweet rebutting the story:

Not denigrating 'sources', just want more evidence.
So looking forward to Mueller Time!

Imprisonment, forfeiture of assets, execution, and/or exile for the tRump gangmembers will be best of all.