Mueller's Cohen case omits allegations of alleged Prague meeting that was key part of collusion case

Byron York:

When news broke that Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about his 2016 meetings concerning the failed Trump Tower Moscow project, the chattering class instantly began talking about the failed Trump Tower Moscow project.

Of course that was news. But it turns out the Cohen plea agreement also made news in what it did not cover. Specifically, it spoke volumes — without saying a word — about a key allegation of the Trump dossier, the charge that Cohen traveled to Prague to arrange secret payments to Russian hackers attacking the Clinton campaign. The accusation is the heart of the collusion allegation, and Trump-Russia special counsel Robert Mueller's deal with Cohen strongly suggests that prosecutors have not found evidence to support it.
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A quick reminder of what the Prague tale was: In the dossier, former British spy Christopher Steele cited a "Kremlin insider" who reported that Cohen traveled to Prague in August 2016 for talks with Russians with close ties to the Kremlin. The talks, according to the dossier, focused on "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."

Cohen publicly denied the allegation, saying the meeting never happened and he had never been to Prague. In his September 2017 statement to Congress, Cohen was adamant: "I have never in my life been to Prague or to anywhere in the Czech Republic," he wrote. "Let me tell you where I was on the day the dossier said I was in Prague. I was in Los Angeles with my son who dreams of playing division 1 baseball next year at a prestigious university like USC. We were visiting the campus, meeting with various coaches, and discussing his future. Media sources have been able to confirm these facts and I can provide you with proof."
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We are now seeing a similar bogus claim of a trip by Manafort to meet with Assange in London.  It is becoming a pattern in the Russian collusion hoax to alleged trips that never happened.  Manafort's passports show no such trip nor does Cohen's passport show any trip to Prague.  Both stories appear to be made up of whole cloth.  In a sane world, they would discredit the entire narrative.

What this indictment does show is that Mueller and his team of Hillary supporters are looking for any excuse to get indictments that are unrelated to their mandate.  Trump has alleged this is part of an illegal series of actions by Mueller that ignores the illegal collusion and other acts of the Clinton campaign.