A spokesperson for special counsel Robert Mueller's investigative team told the news site The Daily Caller that "many stories" about the Russia probe "have been inaccurate."
That warning came in response to a sketchy story that ran late last week saying that the Mueller probe had evidence that Michael Cohen, the personal attorney to President Donald Trump, had traveled to Europe in 2016 to purportedly meet with a Russia operative.
Though Mueller's team would not address that story specifically, the spokesperson said reporter, beware.
"What I have been telling all reporters is that many stories about our investigation have been inaccurate. Be very cautious about any source that claims to have knowledge about our investigation and dig deep into what they claim before reporting on it," the spokesperson told the Daily Caller.
"If another outlet reports something, don’t run with it unless you have your own sourcing to back it up," the spox told the DC.
McClatchy's story about Cohen was a rehash of an assertion made in the unverified dossier authored by former British spy Christopher Steele that alleges Cohen was in Prague, Czech Republic, in the summer of 2016 to meet with a Kremlin official about helping the Trump campaign.
In other words, collusion.
Cohen denied ever having been in Prague when the dossier came out, and he denied it again in the wake of McClatchy's story, eschewing the "fake news" mantra for something more specific.
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