Michael Cohen again denies visit to Prague, says '#Mueller knows everything!'

On Thursday, McClatchy reported that a cellphone linked to Michael Cohen, former lawyer and fixer for President Trump, had briefly connected with cell towers in the Prague area in late summer 2016, about the time an unverified dossier placed Cohen in the Czech capital for a covert meeting with Russians. Special Counsel Robert Mueller is aware of the intercepts, McClatchy said, and its reporters were told about the cellphone evidence from four sources who learned of it independently from foreign intelligence connections. Cohen, who has been cooperating with Mueller's Trump-Russia collusion investigation, reiterated Thursday that he has never been to Prague, ever, adding cryptically that "#Mueller knows everything!"

Was Cohen being cute about Prague, and had maybe visited its suburbs or somewhere else in the Czech Republic? "NO," he tweeted, when people asked. Still, McClatchy's "reporting is the opposite of thin," notes New York's Jonathan Chait, and assuming this isn't "a massive journalistic error," evidence that Cohen was in Prague that summer and met with Russians "would mean just about the worst possible thing for Trump," providing a direct link between the president and Russians allegedly trying to cover up collusion with Trump's campaign. A spokesman for Mueller's office declined McClatchy's invitation to comment on its report.

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