error has been found in the dossier that claims the Russian government has

A glaring error has been found in a recently-released intelligence dossier that claims the Russian government has embarrassing information on President-elect Donald Trump.

The report stipulates that Trump's attorney Michael Cohen met with Kremlin officials in Prague in August 2016.

Cohen was quick to publicly deny the accusations, tweeting a picture of his passport and writing that he has never even visited the Czech capital once in his life.

And now CNN is reporting that the Michael Cohen in the report isn't even Trump's lawyer -but a man with the same name from a different country.

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Trump's counsel, Michael Cohen (left), is refuting claims in a new dossier that he met with Kremlin officials in Prague in August. Russian President Vladimir Putin pictured right

Witnesses have also backed up Mr Cohen's claim that he was in California at the time the report claims he was in Prague.

On Tuesday, Cohen posted a picture of the front of his passport writing: 'I have never been to Prague in my life'

Two sources in the USC baseball program said Mr Cohen and his son were touring the campus that day.

At Mr Trump's first press conference on Wednesday, he called the report 'a disgrace' and put most of the blame on Buzzfeed and CNN for reporting on it.

He then refused to answer a CNN reporter who tried to jump in and ask a question since the President-elect was 'attacking' his news organization.

'Information that was false and fake and never happened got released to the public by Buzzfeed - which is a failing pile of garbage - writing it, I think they are going to suffer the consequences. They already age.

Trump's press secretary Sean Spicer also addressed the issue at the beginning of the conference, at times nearly yelling into his microphone as he berated the journalists in the room that reported on the document.

'Michael Cohen, who was said to have visited Prague in August and September, did not leave or enter the United States during this time.

'We asked him to produce his passport to confirm his whereabouts on the dates in question and there is no doubt that he was not in Prague. In fact, Mr Cohen has never been in Prague.

'A new report suggest that Michael Cohen was at the University of Southern California with his son at a baseball game. One report now suggest that apparently it's another Michael Cohen.

'For all the talk lately about fake news, this political witch hunt by some in the media is based on some of the most flimsy reporting and frankly it's shameful and disgraceful,' Spicer said.



At his first press conference on Wednesday, President-elect Trump called the report a 'disgrace'

A U.S. official told the Associated Press on Tuesday that intelligence officials had informed Trump about an unsubstantiated report that Russia had compromising personal and financial information about him. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because the official was not allowed to publicly discuss the matter.

After news reports were published about the briefing, Trump tweeted: "FAKE NEWS - A TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!"

Russian officials have also denied the report and called the claim a 'complete fabrication and utter nonsense'.

'This is an evident attempt to harm our bilateral ties,' Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in Moscow. 'The Kremlin does not engage in collecting compromising information.'

President-elect Trump tweeted about the issue several times after the story broke on Tuesday

Peskov dismissed the report but commented that the allegations could be used to keep American politicians from wanting to improve ties with Russia.

'We should treat it with humor, but there is a sad side to it, too,' he said. 'There are people who are whipping up this frenzy, who are doing their best to keep this witch hunt going.'

Peskov described the report as part of efforts to 'keep harming the relations, not allow anyone to think about whether this is in the interests of both countries, the interests of the global community and what can be done to move from a total confrontation to a more constructive approach.'

Russian state television provided a muted coverage of the report, dismissing it as fake and pointing to its release timed to Barack Obama's final speech in Chicago.