I just realized that India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting the White House today. Oh, GOD. Considering Emperor Baby Fists’ contempt for all brown people (not to mention Bigly’s complete silence on hate crimes perpetuated against Indians and Indian-Americans), this is probably going to be a gigantic mess. Plus, Modi is actually an intelligent man whereas Bigly is… not. I hope Justin Trudeau briefed Modi about the Trump handshake.
Anyway, remember how Bigly tweeted a “threat” to or about James Comey right after he fired Comey? This is it:
James Comey better hope that there are no "tapes" of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, 2017
That was May 12th. In the past six weeks, Trump has refused to answer any questions about whether he’s actually been taping anything inside the White House. Sean Spicer has refused to answer those questions too, and the whole thing turned into a Trumpian game show: when would Trump reveal the existence of those “tapes”? Well, according to the baby-fisted moron himself, there are no tapes. WITCH HUNT!
With all of the recently reported electronic surveillance, intercepts, unmasking and illegal leaking of information, I have no idea…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 22, 2017
…whether there are "tapes" or recordings of my conversations with James Comey, but I did not make, and do not have, any such recordings.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 22, 2017
Those tweets sound like they were written out by one of his lawyers and translated into Biglyspeak. These tweets also caused at least one anonymous aide to go to the Daily Beast to complain. The aide’s reaction to the tweets was “FML.” Literally.
Bloomberg did an extensive analysis of what all of this means, and guess what? Even if Bigly doesn’t have tapes – ?? – the tweets about the tapes will likely be part of the obstruction of justice investigation, because they could be read as some kind of veiled threat to James Comey.
Also: please read this amazing WaPo story about how Donald Trump talks to his lawyers every morning about the Russia investigation. Apparently, Bigly gets so mad, it ruins his whole day. And it happens every day now. Hurrah!
Photos courtesy of Getty.
So he lied – again.
And the lies will just keep coming. And this POS is in charge of the country. That’s friggen scary!! We’re alll f**ked!!!
That tweet should have stopped at “…I have no idea…”
He is suggesting the intelligence community may be spying on him. Does he not get that is the worst possible defense? They would only be collecting intelligence on him if he were suspected of being a traitor. His lack of impulse control is going to make it very easy for the prosecutor.
“Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive”
Or in DT’s case, the 100th time.
Actually,……….
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/06/12/donald-trump-has-said-100s-of-false-things-heres-all-of-them.html
Well I took that number of the top of my head, but 300?
He is working up to an almighty fall, and I can’t wait to see how hard he’ll crash.
Twice he’s lied about people and tapes. He owes Comey and Obama an apology.
And since his tweets are official record they can be used in proceedings
According to his biographer, it was routine for him to intimidate others with the whole ‘tapes thing..even included in one of his many lawsuits. Maybe the only way an old man who has irrational fears of just about everything fights like a big boy, with imagined power.
He never even had the class to apologize to Obama for pushing the birther #fakenews so why start now?
He’s such a lying sack of sh*t and his supporters make me wanna throw the eff up.
hellooooo witness intimidation.
doesn’t matter that he doesn’t have bupkis to intimidate WITH…he insinuated that he did in an attempt to silence a witness.
And in writing. God, what a despicable bastard he is.
He didn’t lie, that’s what’s so brilliant and at the same time, stupid about this because everybody sees through it. I’m sure technically speaking, he didn’t put the equipment in the Oval office or wherever, and he didn’t press the button. And he is not carrying the tapes (or in the electronic era, there are no “tapes”) on his person. What he is carrying, is a bunch of delusions, a two-ice-cream scoop gut, and a bit fat a$$.
Trump either lied about their existence in the beginning or he’s lying now because they back up Comey’s story.
Either way, he’s a friggen LIAR!!!!!!
That was already established. This is just superfluous confirmation.
My thought exactly. In the latter case, if they existed and he destroyed them, that’s obstruction of justice, plain and simple.
@Plibersek says. It doesn’t matter to me if it was already established, it’s worth repeating again and again.
Did anyone with a brain actually believe his threat? The man is a lifelong, inveterate liar. If his lips are moving or his tiny fingers are typing, he’s lying. World leaders know that, too, and will act accordingly.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-lasting-damage-of-trumps-tapes-bluff/531306/
LMAO! You just made my day. 🙂
There was a great article recently where a friend of Trump’s said to a reporter that Trump would “lie to you about what time of day it is, just for the practice .” A friend.
and, Ally, his own lawyers would meet with him two at a time because of his tendency to lie.
Russia probably recorded it, along with everything else that goes on in the White House. Maybe Drumpf should ask them.
No kidding. I bet Kislyak planted bugs under everything in the Oval Office when the Orange POS wasn’t looking, or even when he was. You just know that no one’s been hired to sniff them out yet. The imcompetence of this WH is mind-boggling. You couldn’t make this stuff up…..SMH
I’m not American but I hope from the bottom of my heart that it didn’t happen. Russia in the WH? I am scared and I kid you not. For the American people. And the rest of the world.
He said ** I ** didn’t tape etc. So ** he ** didn’t personally record anything. Other people did.
“Tape” sounds so ’80s.
As everyone with half a brain already knows, he’s a lying sack of dog sh*t. I wonder what the mopes who voted for this arrogant a-hole think of their POS now?????
Unfortunately, he can do what he wants, they will still support him.
True, and that is pretty damn scary.
They love him. When the sh*t goes down, they’ll still blame Obama.
Unfortunately, they looooove him. However, they don’t even have half a brain. Maybe one quarter.
I know too many people WITH brains who voted for him. Unfortunately, stupidity isn’t the only thing that motivates people to make poor choices.
They’ll never stop supporting him. Sickening to see them cheering for him at his pep rallies.
Yup they love him. They sound EXACTLY like him and that is to say, like a five-year-old with all the “neener-neener-neener” and “not tired of winning!” nonsense.
These people are completely bereft of any sense or morality or ethics. One Trumpster my BF was talking to laid out an explanation of why Trump was “smart” and “strategic” to lie about Comey tapes. These people are so damn naïve that they actually believe Trump is smart enough to think these things through or to possess any sense of foresight. When the reality is that he’s just an impetuous, unhinged, juvenile dbag with the temperament of a toddler.
Read that they may still possibly subpoena the White House because of the way the tweet was worded – that he didn’t have tapes but someone else could.
Who’s “they?” Republican-controlled committees aren’t using their subpoena power, leaving the ranking Democrats to basically beg. Mueller has subpoena power. We’ll have to wait to see how he uses it.
Lindsay Graham, usually not an idiot, says Trump “will not rise or fall” based on tweets. This “logic” forgets that his tweets probably prompted the appointment of Robert Mueller.
Not an idiot, but rather a two-faced hypocrite.
And tweets caused his Muslim travel ban to fail. Twice.
Graham’s so off base — I’d say Trump rose thanks in large part to his tweets that fired up his base. I can’t believe they won’t have a role in his downfall.
Esmom, Here’s hoping you are right.
Graham thinks he is a diplomat and it sort of works. He manages to say the right things but never does them so he has no culpability. Kissing some coral colored ass is for right now when Tangerine is still supported. Plunge those poll numbers and he will turn to his other face.
If you need to barf, check out the Daily Fail – melania playing with children! ivanka swinging her spawn on the WH lawn! They’re celebrating the deaths to come under the AHCA!
Why is Melania wearing a tablecloth?
Hey, I like that dress. I don’t like her and hate her husband and business spawn, but some of her clothing choices are appropriate.
Michelle Obama might have worn that dress, only with more spirit and without Barbie heels.
He’d better get serious and stop playing games. This isn’t an elementary school playground! He proves more and more each day, that he didn’t know what a president is supposed to do. Now Kellyann is on CNN making up excuses and avoiding questions. Talking nonsense. This is a disaster
They love him because the campaign promises kept so far mostly support their mindset. The well off deplorables will continue to support him cause with all the extra $$ in their pockets they can afford maternity care, etc. For the less well off, nothing has yet to really directly impact them or trickle down to the state/local level; when their taxes are increased, they start dying due to healthcare cuts, and they realize jobs are not coming back to their communities, hopefully the tides will change, though with Republicans in leadership in key states they can keep government funds flowing back through favored and pork barrel projects. Feels so hopeless!
They love him because in their minds having a crass and boorish POTUS legitimizes their own crass and boorish behaviours and mindset. And in all honesty, I think that’s about it. They don’t even pay attention to the details of his actions, much less take the time to read anything that would educate them as to the consequences.
Hell, Emperor Zero may have actual recordings of his convos with Comey and others. He doesn’t want to release them if Comey’s testimony is confirmed on those tapes.
Either way, EZ-D is screwed because if he has tapes, that’s contempt of Congress (who asked for the tapes) or witness intimidation/obstruction if he doesn’t and claimed he did.
ASSHAT!!
Eric, you and I are thinking along the same lines. So let me play Antics With Semantics.
Emperor Bigly says he doesn’t have tapes. Fine. But let’s say he has amassed a whole bunch of electronic files now archived on CDs/DVDs/etc.
Technically, he’s correct: he has no TAPES. Devious and underhanded, but correct.
Or am I giving this cretin too much credit?
I thought this same exact thing yesterday Triple…so sad that it’s come to this…I ‘think’ this may be true though and why it took so long for him to announce. He had lawyers trying to think up the correct way to word this.
Ding, ding, ding, ding! And, Triple Cardinal has the correct answer.
The problem is proving it. It would be great if the WH leakers would leak this but who knows. I really think that if tapes ever existed, they’ve been destroyed especially since the majority of Americans believe Comey’s version of the story over Trump’s
He’s a giant ignoramus. He’s got to stop with this foolery-this is not a reality show, he’s supposed to be running the country and he’s doing anything but.
There are no tapes. Putin records digitally.
ugh, I bet this exactly. They always twist words so they can say “that’s not what it meant!”
Ha, I think once again Bigly was just idly threatening. Using the word “tapes” is akin to his “wiretapp” accusation against Obama — pure ignorance and defensiveness.
This is a trump appointee. Check out some of his disgusting tweets, which he has since deleted. Hey, Buddy, they never completely disappear.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/06/22/how-else-can-a-kenyan-creampuff-get-ahead-is-just-one-of-the-disturbing-tweets-sent-by-this-trump-energy-department-agency-head/
When will these f*cknuts learn that the internet is forever?
And his daughters will be lucky if they don’t end up insanely effed up.
Conspiracy theory here but what if the reason for putting everyone off about the tapes was so they would have time to destroy all the evidence? He lies we know that so I wouldn’t put it past these jerks to get rid of any tapes that exist.
That’s exactly what I think they did. Destroyed the evidence.
Well. Now what the 9th District judges said straight out his tweets count as evidence, he thoughtfully (not really) provided the exact back up Comey needed to define the use of “hope”.
It’s a threat, plain and simple. Hope the investigation into Flynn can end, hope there are no tapes. Thanks, trump.
I did wonder if he wants to be impeached, since he just cannot learn? But no, I just think it’s stupid and egotistical.
This is what the c********r is now claiming on Faux and Friends:
http://twitter.com/jenniferjjacobs/status/878203856147972096
Actually, thinking about it, trump just confirmed that everything Comey said in the hearing was the truth. Jeezus, what a stupid, ignorant, moronic man.
I was just about to ask for a vowel but figured it out without it. Good one !
I’ll have an O for $250, Pat.😅😅😅
Kaiser, it sounds like you don’t know Narendra Modi’s rep – he’s an autocrat whose anti-Muslim sentiments are well known (look up ‘Gujarat riots 2002’ if you don’t believe me).
If anything, he and 45 are probably bonding over ‘radical Islamic terrorism’.
+1, teacakes. Modi is no better than DT there
I just finished Al Franken’s new book “Giant of The Senate” – $14.99 on Kindle and you don’t need a Kindle device to read it, you can just read it on your PC using “Kindle Cloud”. It is a really good read. Lots of good information on how the Senate works, how the committees function, etc. Plus Franken’s humor, wit, and devastating sarcasm. It is what I would call a “pleasant read” and I learned a lot from it.
And boy, does he like Ted Cruz. His words: “I like Ted Cruz a lot more than many other Senators do. And I hate him!”
I too would not be surprised if in the end it turns out that any “tapes” or “digital recordings” have already been destroyed. Reason being, one of the biggest things that many, many of die-hard Nixon’s supporters said – and I am talking even years after the pardon – was “He should have destroyed those tapes.”
Because, you see, it was the tapes that gave the Impeachment Committee members the “smoking gun tape evidence. Up until then, things might have been “interpreted” one way or the other. But the smoking gun tape could have only one interpretation. It was solid proof.
It’s a different time and a different age in terms of technology nowadays. Plus a law was passed after Watergate that a president may not have a taping system.
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For anyone who would be interested in gaining some absolutely fascinating insights into the Watergate scandal, Nixon, and his henchmen, the Richard Nixon library has a great series of oral history sessions with almost everyone who had anything to do with Watergate. The principals like White House counsel John Dean, Chief of Staff Robert Haldeman, Presidential Aide John Erlichman, Nixon’s lawyers, Lawyers for the Impeachment Committee, all voluntarily answered questions about what it was like, what went on, etc.
One of the very best interviews is Alexander Haig. He became Chief of Staff after Haldeman and Erlichman were fired. Was there through the resignation and stayed on with Ford. Later served under Reagan and when he (Reagaon) was shot Haid famously went on TV and said “I’m in charge here.” He wasn’t and he took a great, great deal of criticism (and ridicule) for making that statement.
Anyway, at the time of this lengthy interview he is around 82 and still as opinionated and perhaps even more outspoken. His opinions – “He was a big drunk” or “He was really a stupid person” were unfiltered and were left unredacted in the interview. Priceless!
The website is “nixonlibrary.gov”. Look under “Researchers’ heading for an alphabetical list of participants.
Oh, 45. You really are doing everything you can to go down in a blaze of glory!!