‘The story stands’: McClatchy won’t back off its Michael Cohen-Prague reporting – The Washington Post

It is important to emphasize that our stories cited evidence — not proof — that Michael Cohen may have made a secret trip to Prague in the late summer of 2016.
We quoted Mr. Cohen’s vociferous denials in each of our stories, published by McClatchy in April and December of 2018.
Some news organizations have quoted the Mueller report as stating that Mr. Cohen never had been to Prague, when in fact the report merely recited very briefly Cohen’s denial to investigators.
When Mr. Mueller testified about his report to Congress last July, a Republican congressman specifically asked him to state whether our initial story was false.
Mr. Mueller replied: “I can’t get into it.” In response to the next question, he stated that a story by another news outlet was inaccurate.

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