Want to know how bad Michael Cohen’s position is? Even if it turns out that he never met with Russians in Prague, he could be in trouble if Robert Mueller can simply prove he was in Prague in the first place.
Why? The reason is buried in McClatchy DC’s bombshell story revealing that Mueller has evidence Cohen traveled to the Czech Republic through Germany.
Evidence that Cohen was in Prague “certainly helps undermine his credibility,” said Jill Wine-Banks, a former Watergate prosecutor who lives in Chicago. “It doesn’t matter who he met with. His denial was that I was never in Prague. Having proof that he was is, for most people, going to be more than enough to say I don’t believe anything else he says.”
“I think that, given the relationship between Michael Cohen and the president,” Wine-Banks said, “it’s not believable that Michael Cohen did not tell him about his trip to Prague.”
Wine-Banks, for those who don’t know, was the prosecutor who called BS on Rose Mary Woods’ attempt to explain the 18.5-minute gap on the Nixon White House tapes.
So that’s the rub, folks. The mere fact Cohen flatly denied he was in Prague could come back to bite him. Hard. Coupled with the fact that Cohen is now under federal criminal investigation, the pressure on Trump’s BFF is at the point where it’s getting awfully difficult for him to breathe.