'A fight for the soul of our democracy': Dem Rep. Cummings shames GOP for silence on 'Trump tapes'

[DonViejo]

Source: RawStory



NOOR AL-SIBAI
14 MAY 2017 AT 14:36 ET

Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) is no shrinking violet, and appearing on MSNBC Sunday morning, he made clear that Congress will get to the bottom of whether or not President Donald Trump was taping his own calls.

Speaking with “AM Joy” host Joy Reid, Cummings asserted that any recordings Trump may have made as president would become public record.

“If there are tapes, clearly they would come under the Presidential Records Act,” said Cummings, a ranking member of the House Oversight Committee of the act passed in the wake of the Watergate scandal. “When you have recordings like this, you have to preserve them and they become a part of the presidential records. And we should have access to them as the Congress.”

Along with Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, Cummings authored a letter to the White House that not only demanded Trump turn over “copies of all recordings in possession of the White House regarding this matter,” but also indicting the president for potentially intimidating a witness via a seemingly threatening tweet directed at James Comey, the former FBI director he fired last week.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/a-fight-for-the-soul-of-our-democracy-dem-rep-cummings-shames-gop-for-silence-on-trump-tapes/

[PsychoBabble]

1. First I have heard of this ...

“If there are tapes, clearly they would come under the Presidential Records Act,” said Cummings, a ranking member of the House Oversight Committee of the act passed in the wake of the Watergate scandal. “When you have recordings like this, you have to preserve them and they become a part of the presidential records. And we should have access to them as the Congress.”

Sounds pretty straight-forward to me.

[Eyeball_Kid]

2. No executive privilege! Trumpy blew it!

[cstanleytech]

4. It is and it puts the administration in a bind as either they produce the claimed audio

which I personally doubt is unlikely to have anything that incriminates Comey if it exists at all or if it doesnt exist they are forced to admit that Trump lied.

[joshdawg]

3. And drumpf will turn them over whenever he turns over his tax returns. never!

I have no faith whatsoever in this pile of crap to do anything that he should. He is more corrupt than nixon ever thought about being.

[riversedge]

5. Perhaps Trump will demand that the FBI find those tapes (like he did with his

lie that Obama bugged his Tower)