Michael Cohen abruptly drops lawsuit claiming Steele dossier is a lie

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Think Progress:

Trump’s longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, has abruptly dropped a defamation lawsuit he filed against BuzzFeed for publishing an unverified intelligence dossier put together by former British spy Christopher Steele that details the Trump campaign’s alleged links with the Putin regime.

The timing of Cohen’s move to drop the lawsuit is interesting, for at least a couple reasons. First, it comes the week after FBI agents acting on a referral from special counsel Robert Mueller raided Cohen’s home, office, and hotel room. Cohen’s decision to drop the lawsuit suggests agents may have seized evidence that will make it hard to him to maintain that the dossier is “fake” and a “lie filled document,” as he claimed on Twitter when he announced the “defamation action” in January.

Second, Cohen’s move to drop the lawsuit comes less than a week after McClatchy reported that Mueller possesses evidence that Cohen “secretly made a late-summer trip to Prague during the 2016 presidential campaign” — a claim that, if true, would verify an explosive claim in the dossier about Cohen traveling to Europe to meet with Russian officials and Eastern European hackers shortly after Paul Manafort left the Trump campaign.

“The agenda comprised questions on how deniable cash payments were to be made to hackers who had worked in Europe under Kremlin direction against the CLINTON campaign and various contingencies for covering up these operations and Moscow’s secret liaison with the TRUMP team more generally,” the dossier says.

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Wanna know how I know for a FACT that he DID go to Prague?

He said he didnt.

Just the other day here someone was posting nonsense from a year ago about it being a different Michael Cohen.

sigh

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. McClatchy report unconfirmed by other media. Mueller team said View Trump-Russia reports skeptically

The Mueller team's spokesperson spoke only a few days after the McClatchy report about Cohen-Prague.

[procon]

3. Wasn't he suing on behalf of Trump to deny any links with Putin?

Maybe his decision to drop the lawsuit is not so much about evidence, but more about a rift between Cohen and Trump?

Trump also has a new team of real lawyers, not the usual TV personalities and ambulance chasers that he usually finds, and their advice might be to dump Cohen.

[sdfernando]

7. If course

REAL lawyers would advise any client to drop some like MC...but it is too late for that for Spanky McStumpy. MC has been his lawy....er excuse me, “fixer” for so long I’m sure he has so much dirt on Donny he could fill a hole all the way to China.

[TNLib]

4. So I'm wondering if he is also going to be indicted by Mueller as well as NY

It seems like he's under investigation in 2 separate investigations.

[Javaman]

5. flippy macflippyface. nt

[Sancho]

6. Cohen is afraid of discovery...

all these settled and dropped suits? They really, really don't want anyone to testify in a court to anything related to Cohen.

There are a lot of bodies buried out there.