THREAD: Mueller has evidence that Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, secretly made a late-summer trip to #Prague during the 2016 campaign👉🏼confirms the #SteeleDossier‼️1/
Cohen has vehemently denied for months that he ever has been in Prague or “colluded w/#Russia🇷🇺” during the campaign.🙄
Neither he nor his lawyer would comment for this story.😎 2/
It’s “unclear” if Mueller also has evidence that Cohen met w/the #Russian🇷🇺—purportedly Putin pal Konstantin Kosachev—in Prague.😎
Kosachev, who denied visiting Prague in 2016, was hit w/#sanctions in retaliation for #Russia’s election interference.🤔 3/
Investigators have evidence that Cohen entered the Czech Republic via Germany in Aug/early Sept’16, conforming the #SteeleDossier‼️😎
No passport needed b/c both countries are in the Schengen Area👉🏼26 nations have open borders.🤔 4/
No confirmation yet whether Cohen took a commercial flight or private jet to Europe, and no explanation yet as to why no record of such a trip has surfaced.🤨
DID COHEN SNEAK INTO EUROPE ON A PRIVATE JET⁉️5/
Cohen’s clandestine Prague meeting + hismalleged communications w/#Russians🇷🇺were mentioned MULTIPLE times in the #SteeleDossier‼️😎 6/
Democratic House/Senate Intel investigators are skeptical & have “a high level of interest” in Cohen’s travel👉🏼weak documentation from him on his whereabouts when the Prague meeting went down.🙄
Cohen says he was in NY & LA in Aug, but the meet could have been early Sept.🤨7/
🔥Fmr Watergate prosecutor says evidence that Cohen was in #Prague “undermine(s) his credibility...given the relationship btwn Cohen & the president, it’s NOT believable that Michael Cohen did not tell him about his trip to Prague.”
Per #SteeleDossier👉🏼Cohen, 2 #Russians🇷🇺+ Eastern European hackers met at the Prague office of a Russian govt front, “social & cultural org” Rossotrudnichestvo. The location was to provide a cover in case the rendezvous was exposed.🙄 9/
👉🏼Oleg Solodukhin (dep chief of Rossotrudnichestvo in Czech Republic) attended
👉🏼Cohen, Kosachev & others discussed “how deniable cash payments were to be made to hackers in Europe who had worked under Kremlin direction against the Clinton campaign”
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#SteeleDossier👉🏼Prague meet included discussion “in cryptic language for security reasons” to “sweep it all under the carpet & make sure no connection could be fully established or proven.” Some hackers were Romanian & they discussed Bulgaria where they could “lie low.”🤨 11/
The #SteeleDossier also says that the hackers were PAID by both TRUMP’s team + the Kremlin🇷🇺‼️ 12/
It is a FELONY to hack email accounts. And it’s a FELONY to aid & abet such crime.😎
Other laws prohibit foreigners from contributing cash or “in-kind” contributions, such as free “help” or services, including “opposition research,” to US political campaigns.😉13/
Cohen was known to RECORD meetings. The Feds **seized his recordings** during their NO-KNOCK raid‼️🤗
If the raids turned up evidence useful to Mueller’s investigation, rather than the one in SDNY, it likely will be shared with Mueller’s team.😎 14/
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Cohen worked w/Felix SATER to negotiate Trump Tower🇷🇺Moscow & a Ukrainian “peace deal” to drop #sanctions against #Russia.🤨
Sater is SQUEALING‼️😎 15/
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Kosachev’s involvement would be significant b/c of his close ties to Putin and **other roles he has played in covert Moscow efforts to destabilize other countries** according to #Russia🇷🇺experts.🤨 16/
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Trump #fixer Cohen’s attendance at a #Prague meeting to COVER UP the #TrumpRussia🇷🇺conspiracy, as described in the #SteeleDossier, would have been a “logical” assignment, according to 3 #Republican operatives who were close to the campaign.🤨 17/
#Fixer Cohen client, Elliott BROIDY, is a CONVICTED FELON suspected of being a FOREIGN AGENT for Saudi Arabia & UAE👉🏼was an #RNC deputy national finance chair until he resigned today after news he PAID a Playboy playmate to have an ABORTION‼️20/
Trump's deputy campaign chair Rick Gates solicited proposals (#felony) from Israeli firm Psy Group to create fake online personas, use social media manipulation & gather intel to help defeat @GOP primary opponents (@tedcruz) & @HillaryClinton🤨1/ nytimes.com/2018/10/08/us/…
Gates wasn't interested in Psy Group b/c other Trump aides oversaw social media. George Nader & Joel Zamel (Psy Group owner) met w/Don Jr & offered to help *THROW THE ELECTION* at an Aug'16 meeting arranged by Erik Prince‼️
George Birnbaum (Arthur Finkelstein protégé/@GOP consultant who worked for Netanyahu & other Israeli officials) initially pitched Gates on using social media influence/manipulation to sway @GOP delegates toward Trump.🤨 3/
🔥@GOP operative Peter Smith raised >$100,000 to pay #Russian🇷🇺hackers to find Clinton’s emails. 10 days after telling his story to the @WSJ, he committed suicide, yet a friend spoke w/him about a new project hours before his death & says he was “excited.” wsj.com/articles/gop-o…
Smith continued his quest for HRC’s emails *after* the US warned of #Russian🇷🇺interference & went to extraordinary lengths to ensure secrecy, communicating via saved DRAFT (unsent) emails in a shared Gmail account.🤨
🔥One sent email said the >$100k in donations were to be sent to a DC-based scholarship fund for **Russian students**👉🏼“This $100k total with the $50k received from you (Smith) will allow us to fund the Washington Scholarship Fund for the Russian students for the promised $150K.”
We Democrats realize that you are in a tough re-election battle, but backing #Kavanaugh only brings you more scorn from the @GOP and erodes your much-needed support from @TheDemocrats base.
Connie Chung to Dr. Ford: “I, too, was sexually assaulted—not 36 years ago but ~50 years ago. I kept my dirty little secret to myself. Silence for 5 decades...The exact date & year are fuzzy. But details of the event are vivid—forever seared in my memory.” washingtonpost.com/amphtml/opinio…
Connie Chung: “Christine, I, too, am terrified as I reveal this publicly. I can’t sleep. I can’t eat. Can you? If you can’t, I understand. I am frightened, I am scared, I can’t even cry.”😰
Chung: “I wish I could forget this truthful event, but I cannot because it is the truth. I am writing to you b/c I know that exact dates, exact years are insignificant. We remember exactly what happened to us & who did it to us. We remember the truth forever.”
Charles Ludington, a former varsity basketball player & friend of #Kavanaugh at @Yale plans to deliver a statement to the @FBI field office in Raleigh on Monday detailing **violent drunken behavior** by Kavanaugh in college. 1/
Ludington says #Kavanaugh initiated a fight that led to the ARREST of a friend: “When Brett got drunk, he was often belligerent & aggressive...” 2/
“On one of the last occasions I purposely socialized with Brett, I witnessed him respond to a semi-hostile remark, not by defusing the situation, but by throwing his beer in the man’s face and starting a fight that ended with one of our mutual friends in jail.”😳 3/
Rod Rosenstein suggested last year that he secretly record Trump to expose "chaos" consuming the administration & discussed recruiting cabinet members to invoke the #25thAmendment.
Will Trump use this as an excuse to fire Rosenstein⁉️
Rosenstein made his remarks about the #25thAmendment & secretly recording Trump in meetings & conversations w/other DOJ & FBI officials. Several people (briefed either on the events themselves or on memos written by FBI officials, including McCabe) described the episodes.🤨
Rosenstein reportedly told McCabe that he might be able to persuade Jeff Sessions & John Kelly to mount an effort to invoke the #25thAmendment.
All of these incidents allegedly occurred around the time that @Comey was fired. Rosenstein was very distressed & felt he was used.🤔