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7. Trump just said that "he" didn't make any recordings, but at the same time he

Reply to SummerSnow (Original post)

Thu Jun 22, 2017, 03:07 PM

Jun 2017

said has no idea if someone else might have done so.

So if the most powerful man in the world can't even be bothered to find out if there is an active recording system in his own office, then he's too incompetent to hold that job. Does this act of playing dumb get him off the hook, or is he still going to going to get subpoenaed? With he confess under oath that he lied and there never was any sort of recording and he just made it all up to take a cheap potshot at Comey?

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Don't Trump have to turn in the 'tapes' before June 24th? [View all] SummerSnow Jun 2017 OP

He tweeted today that there are no tapes. But we knew that. The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2017 #1

of course. he only did it to try and manipulate Comey to shut up. Obstruction. SummerSnow Jun 2017 #4

LOL - it really backfired because Comey responded by giving the NYT his contemporaneous notes karynnj Jun 2017 #5

No, he tweeted that HE didn't have tapes and had not recorded any. He didn't say there tblue37 Jun 2017 #10

What tapes? JoeStuckInOH Jun 2017 #2

The tapes Trump claimed he had of his meeting with Comey SummerSnow Jun 2017 #6

He made it up the tapes because it sounded good, it's all a script for his reality tv show. The_Casual_Observer Jun 2017 #3

Trump just said that "he" didn't make any recordings, but at the same time he procon Jun 2017 #7

Comey taped the conversation Not Ruth Jun 2017 #9

He'll just say Obama planted a tape in the White House SummerSnow Jun 2017 #14

What a fucking nightmare matt819 Jun 2017 #8

He did not say he has tapes, as you pointed out. All a DISTRACTION!! jmg257 Jun 2017 #13

Why do you think he likes this? Kaleva Jun 2017 #15

he has always been about distraction...'keeping lots of balls in the air.' jmg257 Jun 2017 #16

Yes. If he has tapes, he is supposed to turn them over DonViejo Jun 2017 #11

Once he hired a lawyer, the tapes disappeared... Sancho Jun 2017 #12