Thread by @JohnWHuber

Why did @McClatchyDC report that Mueller has "evidence" that Michael Cohen was in Prague?

Because their two "reporters" are Fusion GPS shills, and their sources are likely Glenn Simpson and/or Christopher Steele himself

THREAD

Here is @McClatchyDC's report.

NOBODY has confirmed it

Cohen has denied it publicly, in court, to Congress, and even his anti-Trump lawyer Lanny Davis emphatically denies it

Note:
1. Byline of April 2018
2. Framed as "confirming" dossier

mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-…

I wonder where Mueller could have such "evidence" that confirms the dossier?

Surely not the author, Steele himself?

This hasn't been widely reported but - facilitated by the UK government - Mueller's team **MET WITH STEELE IN THE UK** "late last year" (so, the end of 2017)

Source: Paul Wood, a BBC world affairs correspondent who is regularly used as a leak conduit for the intelligence community. He has also used Steele as a source multiple times

spectator.us/2018/06/what-d…

Remember: Steele's dossier is THE ONLY SOURCE of the claim Cohen was in Prague (for the purpose of "paying off" hackers for "Collusion")

Steele partially redacts who his source is, but slips up elsewhere - and it's probably a so-called "Kremlin insider"

Oh, so it's RUSSIANS? 🙈

Cohen immediately denied the Prague claims right after the dossier was published

In court in Jan 2018, Cohen also denied ever being in Prague (he sued BuzzFeed, who first published the dossier)

Cohen, through his lawyers, also denied it to Congress, emphatically and in writing

He didn't just deny the Prague story - Cohen went further, denying knowing about ANY "secret" Trump-Russia relationship, calling this "fictitious"

Cc: @ChuckRossDC

And here is Cohen's pro-Clinton, anti-Trump lawyer Lanny Davis also emphatically denying the Cohen/Prague story- AFTER Cohen has pled to unrelated tax/fraud crimes and is heading for 3-5 years in jail

https://twitter.com/chuckrossdc/status/1032427395993624576?s=21

And if you don't like Cohen's denials, how about the FBI and Obama-era US government sources, speaking to some of the most anti-Trump and pro-Collusion friendly reporters?

At this point you might want to ask yourself how a "Kremlin insider" could have "mistakenly" identified the "wrong" Michael Cohen being in Prague

Aren't the Kremlin supposed to be Colluding with **the real Michael Cohen** and just not someone with the same name? 🤔

Far more plausible is the theory of @TheLastRefuge2, that someone fed Steele incorrect information based a signals/data intercept search for a "Michael Cohen", and Steele put this FALSE claim in the dossier (while also lying/obfuscating the source)

theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/08/25/pau…

SUMMARY

2016: While employed by Fusion GPS, Steele says Cohen was in Prague. No evidence given

Late 2017: Steele meets with Mueller's team in the UK

April 2018: Fusion GPS friendly reporters say that Mueller has "evidence" that Cohen was in Prague

Gee, I wonder where from? 🤔

N.B. If you've been paying attention, you'll notice that this approach of "confirming" a story by *relying on same source of the original story* is the EXACT SAME MODUS OPERANDI used to smear @carterwpage

Who was involved in that?

Fusion GPS/Simpson
Steele
FBI/DOJ

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