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Trump threatens Comey in new tweet

And now this...



Trump threatens Comey in new tweet - CNNPolitics.com

What a petty man. Check that. Child.


How is this example of Trump's behavior any different than from the beginning? How much does it take for us to speak up against those that bespeak the same miss-meanings of Trumpese? Trump is an immutable idiot. He is a danger and a menace to society. It's about time that those who've taken the shots, without any real response, stood-up for yourselves like your opponents have been doing to you.
 
Trump is begging the committee to subpoena the tapes.

Check mate, Comey.

How is that? If recorded he would be informed as such? Or is this a return to Nixon days.
 
Spicer has refused to confirm or deny that Trump is recording his conversations.

It's also being reported on Fox by CNN's David Wright that Trump has also refused to elaborate: "Well that I can't talk about. I won't talk about that. All I want is for Comey to be honest."

So yeah, Trump is taping his conversations.
 
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I didn't vote for Trump either yet I accept that he won and is now our POTUS. While I have many objections to Trump's manor, personality and some of his decisions he none the less deserves the respect accorded to all who hold that office.

I have no problem accepting Donald Trump is the President of the United States.

He is also my commander and chief, and therefore the highest authority on my chain of command, and I'm bound by the oath of enlistment I took to obey his orders so long as they act to defend the Constitution of the United States from all threats, foreign and domestic.
 
And now this...



Trump threatens Comey in new tweet - CNNPolitics.com

What a petty man. Check that. Child.

Trump is poking a bear if he's attacking Comey and the FBI. Trump has falsely claimed that those in the FBI organization didn't respect Comey. He lied and said through his surrogates that he fired Comey as a result of the recommendation of the deputy AG, then contradicted that statement in an NBC interview.

Then he tried to tweet/threaten Comey into silence.

Trump should just hide in the bushes with Spicer.
 
Tapes made by who? Comey? Trump?

If there are tapes, was either man recorded without his knowledge?

The idea of taping anyone without their knowledge opens a can of worms. Did Trump pull a Nixon?

Or did I miss that everyone knows there are tapes?

Trump insinuated that recordings exist of his and Comey's conversations. His tweet didn't make clear who was doing the "taping":

Trump threatens Comey in Twitter outburst - CNNPolitics.com

(CNN)President Donald Trump issued a thinly veiled threat Friday to fired FBI Director James Comey, apparently suggesting there are possibly recorded conversations between the two men that could be leaked to counter the former FBI director if necessary.

"James Comey better hope that there are no 'tapes' of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press," Trump tweeted.
 
I wouldn't have minded John McCain as President. I didn't vote for him, but he was nowhere near the disaster we have now.

I voted for McCain in the 2000 GOP primary. He didn't win. I was sad. When he got the nomination in 2008, I perked up... then he picked Sarah Palin as his running mate. So I didn't vote for him... or Obama... in 2008. I was sad then too.

But in 2016, I honestly felt like the world as we knew it was ending... and I still didn't envision the petty, vengeful, abuse of power that an amatuer-hour Trump presidency would actually mean for our country, and the world. It feels like Doomsday on Steroids every time I turn on the morning news.
 
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What used to be a noble cause, and a side job for the framers of our country has become a profession unto itself....and a way to untold riches

so sad.....
Well stated, gdgyva. Well stated.
 
Spicer has refused to confirm or deny that Trump is recording his conversations.

It's also being reported on Fox by CNN's David Wright that Trump has also refused to elaborate: "Well that I can't talk about. I won't talk about that. All I want is for Comey to be honest."

So yeah, Trump is taping his conversations.
A term was coined during Watergate, concerning the Nixon Administration's use of this technique:

"non-denial denial"

Reference: Non-denial Denial
 
I voted for McCain in the 2000 GOP primary. He didn't win. I was sad. When he got the nomination in 2008, I perked up... then he picked Sarah Palin as his running mate. So I didn't vote for him... or Obama... in 2008. I was sad then too.

But in 2016, I honestly felt like the world as we knew it was ending... and I still didn't envision the petty, vengeful, abuse of power that an amatuer-hour Trump presidency would actually mean for our country, and the world. It feels like Doomsday on Steroids every time I turn on the morning news.

The thing about Dubya is that while he was completely unprepared for the job, he had the benefit of being more than an amygdala with legs.
 
The establishment is cornered, and they're desperately fighting for the life. That's why every word and movement he makes is amplified into World War III coverage.

There's only so much adrenaline to sustain the hourly outrages.

At some point we all just get sleepy.

*Yawn*

The first outrage was running at all.

The next was nomination.

Getting elected was a murderous offense.

It's been genocide from there.

He undid Obamas executive Orders? Oh the horror!
 
I didn't vote for Trump either yet I accept that he won and is now our POTUS. While I have many objections to Trump's manor, personality and some of his decisions he none the less deserves the respect accorded to all who hold that office.
I agree, in as much as long as the man himself respects the office.

With Trump that's debatable, and leaves me torn. I love this country and I badly want to respect it's offices & institutions, but it's very hard to do when I believe the man in the office ****s upon our democratic institutions and principles.

I've finally come to see him as an interloper and enemy of the office, so I now feel comfortable in separating the man from the office, hoping the man can be removed as quickly as possible to save the office. It took me a long time to get there, but here I am.
 
I voted for McCain in the 2000 GOP primary. He didn't win. I was sad. When he got the nomination in 2008, I perked up... then he picked Sarah Palin as his running mate. So I didn't vote for him... or Obama... in 2008. I was sad then too.

But in 2016, I honestly felt like the world as we knew it was ending... and I still didn't envision the petty, vengeful, abuse of power that an amatuer-hour Trump presidency would actually mean for our country, and the world. It feels like Doomsday on Steroids every time I turn on the morning news.

This latest trip to the loony tunes for Trump was so bad. Firing Comey, without briefing any of your communications team, everyone's message is inconsistent with your own.. and then threaten extortion via tweets about supposed tapes you have on the guy you fired.. I hope Comey sings like a canary to AP.. If anything positive comes out of it, I hope it reaquaints enough GOP Senators to the kind of child Trump is.
 
I wouldn't have minded John McCain as President. I didn't vote for him, but he was nowhere near the disaster we have now.

McCain was tasteless as tofu and an insult to the nomination.

Yet he was leading until Russia and China interfered in the election with economic attacks.

Technically obama was a Russian installment.

Obama Pledged 'More Flexibility' Toward Russia After 2012 Election

Is This Thing On?
In 2012, President Obama was overheard over a hot microphone telling President Dmitri Medvedev of Russia he would have "more flexibility" to negotiate with Putin after the election.

Oh the irony.
 
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