So Cohen apparently wasn't in Prague?

[OliverQ]

Cohen said he hasn't been to Prague, but the Steele Dossier said he was or at least his phone was.

Ken Dilanian of course is spinning it that the Russia collusion narrative collapsed today. /eyeroll

[manor321]

1. OMG I turned it off as soon as he showed his face. He's an ass.

[hlthe2b]

2. Yeah... I kept hoping someone would ask about his phone... Unfortunately, no one has

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. WHICH one of his phones, I wonder.

Remember the results of the FBI raid on Cohen's office turned up a desk drawer of cell phones.

No one ever heard of a burner phone??? I find it interesting that has not been mentioned.

Also interesting that Don Jr. supposedly speaks Czech fluently, since his mom and her parents are from there, and Jr. visited there to see the GParents a lot in his younger days.

Easy enough to hand him a burner to use while there, easy enough for him to fly private jet there, or anywhere in Europe close by and hop over to Prague.

[tinrobot]

3. One theory is that he kept 'burner' phones for just this reason.

He may have given one of those phones to someone else so they couldn't be traced.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. Seems his phone or something was.

But that whole thing is still up in the air. The issue is that passports and/or visas are not required when traveling between EU countries so at least that type of record would be nonexistent...

[Freethinker65]

5. Cohen was still loyal to Trump back then

He took out a personal HELOC without telling his wife to pay off Stormy for Trump. Perhaps he leant his passport/ID/phone to someone...or just allowed someone to say they were him in Prague to get info?

Or perhaps that part of the dossier is inaccurate?

Truth is, much of the dossier has been found accurate. Opposition research often turns up things that later turn out not to be true. One hopes that by paying an expert for such an investigation they get enough real dirt to use to their advantage.

[Marcuse]

7. Was he in the vicinity, perhaps the Prague suburbs?

[maxsolomon]

8. he gave a burner phone to jr. or eric, who went to prague

many people are saying that.

[NewJeffCT]

9. Ken also reported that the Mueller investigation

would be wrapped up by mid February. He stood by that story for weeks, I believe. Not sure if he's recanted on it yet

[denbot]

10. To concede any part of those actions exposes him to espionage charges.

Which can lead to life imprisonment, or even the death penalty. He will lie to avoid such a grim sentencing.

[marylandblue]

11. Raw intelligence is not always accurate.

Steele himself said he estimated only it was 75 to 80% accurate. But they made a big deal out of that particular claim. That distracts from the many other claims that, if true, would constitute collusion by themselves. Maybe that was the point. Find something minor but provably false and just dispute that one fact.