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Trump’s bluff on White House tapes wasn’t just dishonest

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President Trump acknowledged Thursday that he doesn't have any tapes of conversations with former FBI director James B. Comey, finally coming clean after playing a nearly six-week-long game.

And in the end, it wasn't just another bluff from Trump; it was another bluff that was called and that continued to chip away at Trump's honesty and credibility, for no discernible benefit.

The president last month wielded those potential tapes as a very thinly veiled threat against Comey. And ever since then, Trump and the White House have decided to withhold the truth from the American people, refusing to answer a simple yes-or-no question about whether they had tapes.

This is just the latest in a long line of Trump bluffs. There was the time he was going to force the House to vote on its health-care bill, pass or fail, until he urged that it be delayed in the face of defeat. There was the time during the spending debate when the White House signaled that Trump would allow a shutdown if the bill didn't fund his border wall, only to back down a couple of days later. More examples abound.

But this has been a particularly brazen brand of bluffing from the president of the United States. Trump threatened a former top government official using a falsehood to try to get him to soften his testimony. It's not difficult to attach this to the lengthening list of things suggesting that Trump has tampered in the Russia investigation or even obstructed justice in doing so.

So Trump appears to have not only done something dishonest that undermines his credibility going forward, but it didn't even work. At least the charade is over.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/06/22/gingrich-just-admitted-trump-was-being-dishonest-about-white-house-tapes-because-nothing-matters/
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Keyword, "Tapes."
When is the last time you recorded something on tape? This isn't 1980.

Trump didn't say he didn't have digital recordings, and Trump was the one to put the word "Tapes" out there in the first place.

4D chess indeed.
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>>151534
He also put in in quotes, just like he did with "wiretapped".
He's a 70 year old senile, semi-literate grandpa.
Of course he's still using 80's terms for modern technology, he wouldn't know an MP4 from a colonoscopy.
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>>151536
>he's still using 80's terms for modern technology
Or he could be using old terminology so he can lie by telling the truth. He didn't get all that money by being stupid.
When he was asked if he had a tape he said he would answer that question later in the week. By having someone else release a statement later he eliminated the possibility of a follow up question that would force him to lie or else expose the truth.

Why would anyone need that much time to tell a simple truth? Trump needed time to consult with his lawyers for a reason. The reason is pretty obvious, and keeping the public focused on the word "Tapes" instead of recordings only helps him when real senile Congressmen like Lewis try to question him.
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>>151506
Trump totally baited Comey into telling the truth and not fabricating any stories. Comey was mad and ready to slander our President, but our President is a genius and played Comey like a fiddle. Under oath, Comey has to tell truth. And by thinking the President had audio of their conversations, Comey HAD to tell nothing but truth... Comey admitted to being a leaker. Proving he needed to be treated this way.

OP is desperate to convince people to believe what they think is true. Probably an American too.
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COMPOST
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THE WASHINGTON COMPOST
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Washington Post Admits Their News "Russian Hacking" Story is Fake News

https://youtu.be/5t3z4XHZgjg
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>>151543
>He didn't get all that money by being stupid
He didn't get it by being smart either.
Unless you count not going back into the casino business as "smart".
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>>151614
Did you get that drom the Washington COMpost?
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>>151506
Washington Post is ISIS
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Doesn't him admitting to lying about the tapes in an attempt to control what Comey would say regardless of the truth value of Comey's statement technically count as Trump admitting to witness intimidation?
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>>151630
For there to be a witness there needs to be a crime. What is the crime?
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>>151631
There doesn't need to be a crime for a witness, considering witnesses can offer testimony in either direction to support or hurt the defendant. A witness is simply someone who offers statements in a court case. So really, there only needs to be a case...
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>>151630
>witness intimidation
LOL
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>>151630
>technically count as Trump admitting to witness intimidation?
He's already admitted to obstruction of justice, but it's pretty clear he could murder babies with a hammer on national television, and his base would call him a hero and the GOP-majority House wouldn't impeach him.
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>>151636
No, you're just confused as fudge.
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>>151620
>Did you get that drom the Washington COMpost?
he-he-he, I bet Dick Nixon wasn't a bad guy either, they're just biased.
Oh, wait, why didn't they bring down Ford, Reagan or the two Bushes?
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>>151637
>confused as fudge.
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>>151635
>Comey was a witness giving testimony in a court of law
>Trump stated he purposefully lied about the tapes to attempt to influence what Comey would say
This is clear cut witness intimidation with admission of intent, especially if you factor in power hierarchy.
If I was Trump's lawyer, I really wouldn't let the guy speak in public unless he's reading off a teleprompter.
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>>151506
How was this a bluff? Because people with poor reading comprehension like to be entertained with social media bullshit?
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>>151641
No it's not, you lolipop licker.
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>>151638
Defending the MSM? wtf why

This is something we used to agree on

>>151639
I'm trying to use nicer language. Ok with you? Jk i don't give a hoot.
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>>151650
>i don't give a hoot.
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>>151659
gosh darn yah, you silly rascal
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>>151638
>mis-characterizing you opposition and making a false comparison
whew lad
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>>151534
>Le 4d chess meme
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>>151506
OP's bluff on a decent new article wasn't just dishonest -- it was also a failure
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>>151506

>James Comey better hope that there are no "tapes" of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/863007411132649473

For the few liberals out there who haven't gone full retard, notice how he never claimed to have any tapes? Now look at how the media claims he did. Notice how the media is completely full of shit and pushes false narratives 24/7? Stop watching them. Stop visiting their websites.
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