Report: Mueller Has Evidence Trump Lawyer Cohen Traveled To Prague; Cohen Issues Denial

Trump lawyer and confidant Michael Cohen

While Donald Trump was ordering the missile strike on Syria last night, McClatchyDC was reporting that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has found evidence that Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, did travel to Prague in August/September of 2016 at the height of the presidential campaign.

Confirmation of the trip would lend credence to a retired British spy’s report that Cohen strategized there with a powerful Kremlin figure about Russian meddling in the U.S. election.

It would also be one of the most significant developments thus far in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of whether the Trump campaign and the Kremlin worked together to help Trump win the White House. Undercutting Trump’s repeated pronouncements that “there is no evidence of collusion,” it also could ratchet up the stakes if the president tries, as he has intimated he might for months, to order Mueller’s firing.

Cohen denied the allegations last year saying he has "never been to Prague" in his life. He famously produced his passport which showed no stamp of entry into Prague.

But the new reports posit that Cohen may have traveled on private jet to Germany and entered the Czech Republic from there. Because both countries are in the so-called Schengen Area in which 26 nations operate with open borders, a passport would not have been necessary for entry.

The infamous Steele dossier has been declared "debunked" in great part by Trump loyalists because of Cohen's passport defense. The logic seems to be if that one aspect of the report was untrue then the entire dossier must be a lie.

And yet, several items in the dossier have been verified.

Cohen again denied the reports today via Twitter.

“Bad reporting, bad information and bad story,” Cohen tweeted, calling out McClatchy reporter Peter Stone by name.

“No matter how many times or ways they write it, I have never been to Prague. I was in LA with my son. Proven!”

Bad reporting, bad information and bad story by same reporter Peter Stone @McClatchyDC. No matter how many times or ways they write it, I have never been to Prague. I was in LA with my son. Proven! https://t.co/ra7nwjUA0X

— Michael Cohen (@MichaelCohen212) April 14, 2018

I have never been to Prague in my life. #fakenews pic.twitter.com/CMil9Rha3D

— Michael Cohen (@MichaelCohen212) January 11, 2017

Rumor has been swirling for months that Cohen flew into Germany by private jet in early September 2016 and went on to Prague by train or bus—now Mueller has evidence it may be true >> https://t.co/EvUoQB5fBG

— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) April 13, 2018

BREAKING: From Day 1 this feed has been about the Steele Dossier—and tonight the *one* allegedly false item in the Dossier now appears to *also* be true. So the current status of the Dossier is that much of it has been proven true and none of it dispelled. https://t.co/ipa207fydH

— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) April 13, 2018