One of the salacious details in the intelligence dossier published by BuzzFeed about Donald Trump was that his special counsel, Michael Cohen, met with Russian officials in Prague in August 2016.
It appears to have been a false claim, but Cohen’s first public statement denying it was … less than definitive.
I have never been to Prague in my life. #fakenews pic.twitter.com/CMil9Rha3D
— Michael Cohen (@MichaelCohen212) January 11, 2017
The implication, perhaps, was that he could open up his passport and show you there were no stamps from Czechia. But just tweeting a picture of the cover of your passport and saying you’ve never been somewhere is about as overwhelmingly convincing as sharing a photo of the International Space Station and saying “I live here.”
Naturally, Twitter ran with the conceit.
https://twitter.com/PokemonGoMeme12/status/819201200696553477
I have never been to Prague in my life! #fakenews @MichaelCohen212 pic.twitter.com/WXqJk4wQDD
— Grubb (@JeffGrubb) January 11, 2017
I’ve never been to Prague in my life!
— G (@Geoff_Not__Jeff) January 11, 2017
Attached evidence.#fakenews @realDonaldTrump @michaelcohen212 @MMFlint @maddow @HardballChris pic.twitter.com/D3HFgNhjiQ
https://twitter.com/_MylesHigh/status/819263906342457357
https://twitter.com/evcon/status/819258974977589250
I have never been to Prague in my life. #fakenews pic.twitter.com/aCjcqfcy4E
— Brian Shea (@BrianPShea) January 11, 2017
I have never been to Prague in my life! #FakeNews pic.twitter.com/W8M94iXG3F
— Joe (@BartolosCologne) January 11, 2017
@realDonaldTrump I’ve never been to Prague either. pic.twitter.com/aAJ4P9riqT
— DCI_SurveillanceVan (@covfefeC137) January 11, 2017
I have never been to Prague pic.twitter.com/mspy7iQwMV
— Too Mere (@MereBass) January 11, 2017
https://twitter.com/SlukeWriter/status/819240267056369664
https://twitter.com/CosmoBaker/status/819216568748015617
I’ve never been to Prague in my life! pic.twitter.com/DwA2QRoApg
— Dirk Bigler (@BigDirkCheney) January 11, 2017
Here is guessing at least some of those folks have been to Prague. Whether they met with Russian intel is another story—albeit one that’s not as funny as what’s taking place on Twitter right now.
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