Trump tweets there are no tapes

[Hindsight was 2020]

Wow such a shock/s https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/877932907137966080

[Antonio the Sixth]

trololololo

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Given the past accuracy of claims by Trump on twitter, we should probably be assuming he does have recordings that he made.

[emailking]

Jeez, he could have just said that day that he was referring to possible surveillance (absurd or not) and saved himself a whole lot of trouble.

[SoLongAtlas]

He has seriously ranted today after the Iowa trip. 7 tweets so far.

[GeorgiaModerate]

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[Statilius the Epicurean]

So does this not make the tweet attempted intimidation of a witness?

[ProudModerate2]

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Once something is said, it is hard to take it back.


For years there will be people wondering if he has tapes or doesn't have tapes.

[SoLongAtlas]

Once something is said, it is hard to take it back.


For years there will be people wondering if he has tapes or doesn't have tapes.

Or if he should have just burned them. AROOO

[HAnnA MArin County]

More importantly to the Dear Leader: are there emails from Crooked H?

[MasterJedi]

Nixon: "I am not a crook".

[136or142]

That is actually not what he tweeted.  His tweet was  "I did not make, and do not have, any such recordings."

That is far from saying "there are no tapes."

[EnglishPete]

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Comey has been leaking all along anyway. Trump's bluff forced Comey to admit under oath that he had told Trump three times that he wasn't under investigation. You think he would have admitted that if he didn't think Trump might have tapes?

So now the witch hunt has moved on. Now its focused on whether Trump might have committed the terrible crime of obstructing a witch hunt

[136or142]

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Comey has been leaking all along anyway. Trump's bluff forced Comey to admit under oath that he had told Trump three times that he wasn't under investigation. You think he would have admitted that if he didn't think Trump might have tapes?

So now the witch hunt has moved on. Now its focused on whether Trump might have committed the terrible crime of obstructing a witch hunt

Comey actually said "Trump isn't under investigation...at the present time."

[EnglishPete]

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Comey has been leaking all along anyway. Trump's bluff forced Comey to admit under oath that he had told Trump three times that he wasn't under investigation. You think he would have admitted that if he didn't think Trump might have tapes?

So now the witch hunt has moved on. Now its focused on whether Trump might have committed the terrible crime of obstructing a witch hunt

Comey actually said "Trump isn't under investigation...at the present time."

So the witch hunt goes on for months based on the bogus Russian dossier and the dodgy Crowdstrike report (anyone investigating why the DNC refused to allow the FBI to examine their servers) and after all those months finds nothing that would warrant  puttingTrump under investigation. Comey confirms this (in private despite being happy to leak all other kinds of tidbits).

So now the witchhunt is forced to move on to the question of whether Trump obstructed a witch hunt based on an interpretion of Trump's words to Coimey

[136or142]

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Comey has been leaking all along anyway. Trump's bluff forced Comey to admit under oath that he had told Trump three times that he wasn't under investigation. You think he would have admitted that if he didn't think Trump might have tapes?

So now the witch hunt has moved on. Now its focused on whether Trump might have committed the terrible crime of obstructing a witch hunt

Comey actually said "Trump isn't under investigation...at the present time."

So the witch hunt goes on for months based on the bogus Russian dossier and the dodgy Crowdstrike report (anyone investigating why the DNC refused to allow the FBI to examine their servers) and after all those months finds nothing that would warrant  puttingTrump under investigation. Comey confirms this (in private despite being happy to leak all other kinds of tidbits).

So now the witchhunt is forced to move on to the question of whether Trump obstructed a witch hunt based on an interpretion of Trump's words to Coimey

There are multiple ongoing investigations.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

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Comey has been leaking all along anyway. Trump's bluff forced Comey to admit under oath that he had told Trump three times that he wasn't under investigation. You think he would have admitted that if he didn't think Trump might have tapes?

Yes I do. For all his faults, Comey at least knows truth. Trump only knows a "reality" where everything is about praising him.

[EnglishPete]

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Comey has been leaking all along anyway. Trump's bluff forced Comey to admit under oath that he had told Trump three times that he wasn't under investigation. You think he would have admitted that if he didn't think Trump might have tapes?

So now the witch hunt has moved on. Now its focused on whether Trump might have committed the terrible crime of obstructing a witch hunt

Comey actually said "Trump isn't under investigation...at the present time."

So the witch hunt goes on for months based on the bogus Russian dossier and the dodgy Crowdstrike report (anyone investigating why the DNC refused to allow the FBI to examine their servers) and after all those months finds nothing that would warrant  puttingTrump under investigation. Comey confirms this (in private despite being happy to leak all other kinds of tidbits).

So now the witchhunt is forced to move on to the question of whether Trump obstructed a witch hunt based on an interpretion of Trump's words to Coimey

There are multiple ongoing investigation areas of witchunting within the main witch hunt.

FTFY

[136or142]

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Comey has been leaking all along anyway. Trump's bluff forced Comey to admit under oath that he had told Trump three times that he wasn't under investigation. You think he would have admitted that if he didn't think Trump might have tapes?

So now the witch hunt has moved on. Now its focused on whether Trump might have committed the terrible crime of obstructing a witch hunt

Comey actually said "Trump isn't under investigation...at the present time."

So the witch hunt goes on for months based on the bogus Russian dossier and the dodgy Crowdstrike report (anyone investigating why the DNC refused to allow the FBI to examine their servers) and after all those months finds nothing that would warrant  puttingTrump under investigation. Comey confirms this (in private despite being happy to leak all other kinds of tidbits).

So now the witchhunt is forced to move on to the question of whether Trump obstructed a witch hunt based on an interpretion of Trump's words to Coimey

There are multiple ongoing investigation areas of witchunting within the main witch hunt.

FTFY

You can believe Trump if you want, I'll believe the truth.

[EnglishPete]

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Comey has been leaking all along anyway. Trump's bluff forced Comey to admit under oath that he had told Trump three times that he wasn't under investigation. You think he would have admitted that if he didn't think Trump might have tapes?

Yes I do. For all his faults, Comey at least knows truth. Trump only knows a "reality" where everything is about praising him.

Oh sure. Comey is a devoted and true public servant, not some kind of DC political hack. LMAO

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

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Comey has been leaking all along anyway. Trump's bluff forced Comey to admit under oath that he had told Trump three times that he wasn't under investigation. You think he would have admitted that if he didn't think Trump might have tapes?

Yes I do. For all his faults, Comey at least knows truth. Trump only knows a "reality" where everything is about praising him.

Oh sure. Comey is a devoted and true public servant, not some kind of DC political hack. LMAO

Despite the example you provide, it is possible to be a political hack and yet still provide the truth. All Trump's reality TV grandstanding did was get a tame congresscritter to ask the question under oath to Comey. But that had nothing to do with the tapes Trump lied about having.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

So does this not make the tweet attempted intimidation of a witness?

Sure seems like that's what the crook-in-chief is confessing to.
Trump Says Comey’s ‘Story May Have Changed’ After Tape Threat
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-23/trump-says-comey-s-story-may-have-changed-after-tape-threat

[EnglishPete]

So does this not make the tweet attempted intimidation of a witness?

Sure seems like that's what the crook-in-chief is confessing to.
Trump Says Comey’s ‘Story May Have Changed’ After Tape Threat
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-23/trump-says-comey-s-story-may-have-changed-after-tape-threat

Bluffing a witness into telling the truth is a totally different thing from threatening a witness to say something. Trump hinted he might have a full record of what was actually said in the conversation. That could only be a seen as threat to a witness planning to commit perjury. If Comey was not planning to to commit perjury then it could hardly be intimidated or threatened by this bluff. So why do you think Trump's bluff was intimidating. Do you think Comey was planning to commit perjury, if not then what's threatening about what Trump said?

A lawer explains

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http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/the-administration/339096-trumps-bluff-perfectly-legal

[EnglishPete]

So does this not make the tweet attempted intimidation of a witness?

Sure seems like that's what the crook-in-chief is confessing to.
Trump Says Comey’s ‘Story May Have Changed’ After Tape Threat
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-23/trump-says-comey-s-story-may-have-changed-after-tape-threat

Bluffing a witness into telling the truth is a totally different thing from threatening a witness to say something. Trump hinted he might have a full record of what was actually said in the conversation. That could only be a seen as threat to a witness planning to commit perjury. If Comey was not planning to to commit perjury then it could hardly be intimidated or threatened by this bluff. So why do you think Trump's bluff was intimidating. Do you think Comey was planning to commit perjury, if not then what's threatening about what Trump said?

A lawer explains

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http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/the-administration/339096-trumps-bluff-perfectly-legal

Of course whilst bluffing a witness into keeping his testimony honest because he doesn't want to get caught out in perjury cannot be seen as intimidation or obstruction of justice it could be seen as obstruction of a witch hunt. The outrage at this perfectly legitimate bluff makes it pretty clear that that's what the real charge against Trump is.

A witch hunt has been launched with a predetermined verdict (I.e. that Trump should be impeached) just looking for a suitable charge to fit the verdict. If Trump makes any effort, no matter how legitimate or legal, to defend himself against bogus accusations then that means he's getting in the way of the witch hunt arriving at its predermined conclusion I.e. obstructing a witch hunt.