Friday, April 13, 2018

Cohen, Trump's Personal Lawyer, Under Criminal Investigation, Court Filing Shows

Trump went particularly Trump over the raid on Conehead's offices. Per the Times, Trump Sees Inquiry Into Cohen as Greater Threat Than Mueller. The criminal investigation into Cohen includes so many things but one that caused Trump to go Full Trump Monday is a report in McClatchy that "Mueller has evidence Cohen was in Prague in 2016, confirming part of dossier." The Steele Dossier. The one Conehead tweeted about “The #Russian dossier is WRONG!”The one Trump has repeatedly called "fake." Prague, about which Conehead tweeted January 11, 2017 “I have never been to Prague in my life. #fakenews.” Which he repeated in sworn testimony before Congress. Which is a crime, lying to Congress. Which is a little peepy crime compared to the others Conehead is under investigation for. But which is a big deal to Trump because:

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Huge development. If Michael Cohen is confirmed meeting Konstantin Kosachev in Prague, then collusion happened. As I [was quoted as saying] in the piece, “everyone knows Kosachev speaks for the Kremlin.” Another tantalizing fact: Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin was also in Prague at this time.

Or as the authors of the McClatchy report put it:

If Cohen met with Russians and hackers in Prague as described in the dossier, it would provide perhaps the most compelling evidence to date that the Russians and Trump campaign aides were collaborating.

And Conehead his own self has ties, as did one time Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, to Ukraine, part of which now is Russian:

A millionaire with his own New York real estate holdings, Cohen has long had family and business ties to Ukraine. His wife is Ukrainian, and he has had ties to Ukrainian ethanol company. 

The Law is Coming, Trumpie. Don't know how it can git ya, don't think it can, but it gonna try.