The Fake Ping?

One of the odd things brought up this past week in the Cohen 'chat' in Congress....was the continued denial that he was in Prague in the summer of 2016.   Blunt answer, he says no....he just never was there.

So, what drives the accusation?  Well....some Eastern European spy agency (probably the Czechs, but it might be even the Germans)....says (no one from the CIA or former Obama group says who, which is curious to me).....that Michael Cohen’s cell phone pinged off a local cell phone towers in Prague.  No one says for a day or two.  In fact, the story only suggests that a conversation occurred between Cohen (the holder of the number) and some Russian guy. 

The rest of this story?  The phone call was a moment where Cohen chatted with Russians (one assumes in a Russian English accent situation).  Cohen doesn't speak Russian.

The topic mentioned from this spy agency?  Cohen and the Russians supposedly discussed how to hide the campaign’s close relationship with the Russian government.

As the story goes....this secret chatter (in either text form, or tape form) rests with Robert Mueller.

If all true....why do this Prague?  Cohen could have easily picked any western European city (London, Paris, or Munich).  Why not meet the sources in person in Prague?  A face-to-face between Cohen and the Russians?  But no.....Cohen flew all that way to Prague....to conduct one single phonecall? 

Curiously, if this were a taped version....you would think that it'd be analyzed by FBI experts and just confirm the voice of Cohen.  Yet oddly, no one says that.  The Russian angle to this?  You'd think that the ones on the Russian end would be checked out.....yet no one says that.

If you fly into Prague International (from the US), you have to have a stamp in your passport.  If you flew from the US into Germany, and later onto Prague (the normal route).....you'd have the German stamp....but there is no stamp for Europe in that time period (Trump himself reviewed the passport back when this got brought up).

So what happened?  I suspect that someone in the US took some time to figure out Cohen's cellphone number....copy it, and then send some guy on a quick trip with the fake phone to Prague....to arrange a fake call, which would be picked up.  In fact, the more you look at how this story is told....people go to a great length to avoid suggesting what part of Prague (it's a fairly big town) where the 'ping' was picked up.  There's probably more than a thousand towers within Prague, if you just suggested the area....you could assess and identify the hotel that he stayed in.  But no.....they can't go and suggest that tower's location.  To this date....no hotel information has been demonstrated as part of the story. 

So this 'fixer' situation was planned out already in the summer of 2016?  Yes, and I would go to suggest that most of the Obama-team players already knew in advance that Hillary couldn't win the Electoral College, and this was a foregone conclusion in their mind that they needed to 'seed' legal matters to take Trump or the Trump-team down.

Screwed up?  Once you establish that this was a false phone story, and planted....then the rest of this whole Mueller topic is mostly open to additional speculation.