(UPI) — If Trump did record conversations with former FBI Director Jame Comey, the president will have to turn those tapes over to Congress, both Republican and Democrats said on Sunday.
Last week, President Trump tweeted: “James Comey better hope that there are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!”
A number of pundits have likened the scenario to Nixon and Watergate. Mark Warner, D-Va., top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, called the insinuation “outrageous” during his appearance on “Fox News Sunday.”
When questioned on Friday about the president’s tweet, Press Secretary Sean Spicer said, “The president has nothing further to add on that.”
“If there is the existence of tapes I want to make sure, one, they’re preserved [and] are not mysteriously destroyed in the coming days, and then two, one way or the other, Congress will have to get a look at those tapes,” Warner told “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace.
Several Republicans echoed Warner’s logic.
“If there are any tapes of this conversation, they need to be turned over,” Senator Lindsey O. Graham, R-S.C., said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Senator Mike Lee, R-Utah, told Wallace any tapes would “inevitably” be subpoenaed by Congress.
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The tapes are probably hidden with hillary’s 33,000 missing emails. Maybe these congress critters can get a look at all of them at the same time.
So Mike Lee joined the RINOS!
Disappointment. I thought he was better than that.
IMO he’s been one secretly for a while, just waiting for the right time to crawl out of the sewers..
Trump needs to set up a staged conversation with someone else going on and on about McCain being a coward, what a fool he is, how he’s nothing close to a war hero, how he was captured due to his own reckless stupidity, etc. Let the conversation go on for 4 hours. Tape it. The whole time, Trump is merely adding things like “You sure about that?” He doesn’t personally say one bad word about McCain. He doesn’t need to.
Then send out a tweet hinting at some secret tape about McCain. McCain demands that it be admitted into evidence. Trump “reluctantly” agrees to hand over the tape. Everyone in Congress is forced to spend 4 grueling hours listening to a bitter but extremely honest and accurate rant about what a loser McCain is.
You asked for it, moron. And you made 535+ people enjoy your well-earned shame.
Typical Democrat demand for the evidence so they know what they can not deny in court and who they need to send the Clinton hit squad to shoot in the back and permanently eliminate before trial. These losers, obstructionist, and self serving government parisites need to get over their loses and start doing something constructive for the American people. Pansey Graham will do anything for publicity and has very few accomplishments to show for his many years on the government payroll.
Rino’s on board
I think they are afraid of Trump going after the Clinton Foundation because they all are tied into it, you can put money in and have it go were you want to go you don’t lose control of it. This was posted before the election.
fubar !!!
Sure he has for one he is now a millionaire that is quite and accomplishment LOL
RINOs Suck!
Yes, Rinos suck. We have too many Rinos.
And we need to expunge every single frikken one of them!
Lins, we need to know what was said, so we can get off the Russian case already that is getting old, we need something new to bellyache about.
What a bunch of attention grabbing morons. Demanding tapes they do not know the existence of. These useless politicians will never let a fabricated crisis go to waste.
Heck imo the only one who would have done a taping of that conversation WOULD have been Comey..
IF the Democrats ever take the House and bring impeachment charges against Trump you can be assured that McCain, Graham, Mike Lee, Ben Sasse, and half a dozen more RINOs will be delighted to vote with the Democrats to convict.
The worst and most disgusting people are those who pretend to be on your side. They should not be trusted in any situation, ever.
What would the charge be? Trump smiled at the Russian Ambassador or Putin? Lee should be ashamed of himself.
They have nothing and hope something will stick. Idiots!
Whatev, i can be certain the dems wil concoct SOMETHING to try and impeach Trump for..
I think Trump is jacking them around and having a good time. MAGA
That is exactly what I thought when he said it. Trump likes keeping them off their game.
These dems,and RINOS are soo upset that an outsider came in and is shaking things up that they have to resort to fantasies and make stuff up to combat him since they themselves have nothing to offer. Trump is getting things done and accomplishing a lot for America so far more than any other president.This is a total waste of taxpayer money and there is nothing there.Trump is cleaning up Obama’s mess and these dems want to preserve his legacy.There is no comparison to Watergate.Even Bob Woodward has admitted it.There was no Russian collusion and the new book out explains how Podesta and Robert Mook came up with the Russian idea 24 hrs after Hillary lost. in fact Podesta and Hillary have twice as much connection with Russia than Trump. It is totally rediculous and out of the Twilight Zone.I can picture Rod Serling there now.
Mike Lee is a Conservative? I think Mike Lee may be sleeping with Lindsey PANTIES Graham, John MAVERICK TRAITOR McCain and Mark CLOWN DEMORAT Warner.
Subpoenas?? For a conversation between Trump and comey? What prey tell is the charge here That would require that?
Trump just trolled the whole DNC, msm, and rinos… it’s awesome, and after it has been already leaked that the Nsa records ALL calls. I find it hilarious that someone is upset that THEY may have been recorded like the rest of us are….the irony is so sweet, I may need try see my dentist.
I was wondering that myself/ Last i checked you had to go through a court to get a subpoena.. OR a congressional hearing..
The way Trump worded his comments regarding “taping” does not actually say there are recordings, nor does it deny, nor do they say “who”…it was certainly cleverly worded and gets people “guessing”…and it has certainly frustrated the dickens out of the media, the Dems, RINOs, and perhaps even Comey…
It was a simply worded comment…”warning”?? whaaaat?
I am HOPING he was playing them all for fools, and was not one himself, by actually RECORDING those conversations..
Democrats Obama, and Hillary Clinton voted for partial birth abortion, and normalizing morbid sex education using adult school teachers, homosexual, transgender, promiscuous sex, and abortion special interest group activists indoctrinating innocent school children. The Democrats and Rinos also implanted bureaucrats to homosexualize the military, and appointed Supreme Court Injustices to legalize these perversions.
The Democrats, Rinos, and the Popular Media Moguls, are rotten to the core. They like Democrat legislation that exploits the malleable. They cannot get over President Donald Trump ,and Vice President Mike Pence winning the election with the promise to clean up the Democrat and Rino created cesspool.
Lindsay Graham is a pompous do nothing member of the senate who manages to speak and say nothing.
Hey! You shouldn’t one-star Beowolfe for that empty comment. It’s the only intelligent one he’s ever made here. LOL
beowolf and intelligent in the same sentence?
1st trump was referring to the leaks of his conversations that had been recorded by an unnamed felon, hired by obama. Second, I would respond to a subpoena right after about 10 subpoenas obama ignored are enforced. Third I gotta go throw up
Agree! Isn’t what Obamba said”Executive Privilege”, would apply here too, or was Obamba ABOVE the law, and TRUMP isn’t?
Say something against Obamba, we are racist ( or homophobic!!! Take your choice )
Say something rotten and mean or false against Trump, we are heros to the DumbocRats .
Trump ran on the Republican ticket, but is not, and never claimed to BE a republican. But he still has a majority of support from more COMMON SENSE FOLKS,like those that voted for and still stand with Trump. . Laughing at snowflakes is so entertaining!!!
I used to have a lot of respect for Mike Lee. His comments of the last few weeks in particular have taken that down to zero respect. He needs to be replaced.
Like i said above.. Maybe he’s always been a rino, but has kept under the radar for long enough, and now his masters in the DNC are commanding him to crawl out of the sewers..
It is a ruse. Trump threw the “tapes” in there to stop Comey lying about what they talked about. I doubt very much — like 99% — Trump does not have any recording. Trump is a good poker player.
The first thought that strikes me is that Lee and Graham just might be amongst the crooked politicians “on the take” who along with the other Dem denizens of “the swamp” are taking every opportunity to distract, deflect this administration from its government tasks, so that it never gets around to “draining the swamp” of them.
– Jack McCorkell
Isn’t it bad enough the Dems and Lee and Graham are being treasonously selfish putting their wants ahead of America’s citizenry:
– Obstructing via all these fake distractions and their“slow walking” approval processing the current elected administration’s efforts to properly staff itself in order that it can effectively do the work of the nation.
– obstructing the current administration’s efforts to give us badly needed tax reforms and put more of our own moneys back into our own pockets;
– obstructing all healthcare insurance replace and repair efforts while our nation’s Obamacare program is on its death bed, failing badly, grasping for its last breaths and about to leave our nation with no healthcare program at all;
– obstructing the implementation of this new administration’s illegal immigration programs whilst the scourge of illegally imported heroin and other illegal addictive opiates are decimating large swathes our nation’s youth and families in every nook and cranny all over the country, not to mention the stripping down of our protections against ever expanding invasive foreign terrorist threats.
– obstructing the practice and exercise of free speech at Universities, at Town Hall Meetings and opposition party rallies via the hiring of special event disruptors and for some events uniformed and nonuniformed violent thugs whose only purpose is shut down and prevent opposing points of view or opposing political parties’ to get their messages out to the public
And, the MSM (including but not limited to CNN, MSNBC, MSN, CBS, ABC, AP, Reuters, Yahoo, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Daily News, Advance Publications [Star Ledger, etc], in their desperate efforts to be competitive against each other, are despite how immoral, dishonest and hurtful the activities described in the previous paragraphs are aiding and abetting them.
Its long overdue for the MSM to grow a moral spine and put a stop to their hurtful anti-American activities. We have grown very, very tired of it.
IMO the entire MSM is so rotten, if a moral spine showed up and started slapping them in the face, they STILL wouldn’t recognize it..
Trump brings on problems just by tweeting way too much!
“It’s better to keep your mouth closed and be presumed a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.”
Trump brings on problems for the inept/corrupt/biased Media by tweeting way too much.
I don’t see the problem. Let them stew in their own stupidity.
Gadget i agree with Johnny here. IMO a lot of this IS being brought on by Trump tweeting insecently..
The word is incessantly and that’s exactly what the fake news/hatemongers want you to say.
The tweets ARE NOT the problem. The lies of the press and the Democrats ARE the problem. Don’t enable them.
Guys Watergate is a part of history, it died with mr. Nixon….screw the tapes, get a life.
The Watergate”comparison” is to the Saturday Night Massacre, why what was done was to fire someone to shut down an investtigation of Nixon himself. This is entirely different: not only is Trump not under investtigation, but Comey’s firing doesn’t impact any of the FBI’s investigations one bit.
I see no reason why he should. His conversations in the Oval Office are between him and the other person. There is no reasson why he should make Congress a party to the conversati0ns.
I’m surprised McShame and Collins have not joined in.
Who is to say they have not already joined in??
Sorry folks to me this is all nonsense,been around long enough to see the folly of all this….politics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 3/17/1956
GOOD GRIEF! This is one of the most erroneous, “fake newsy” headings I’ve seen on an article recently! “Mike Lee joins Democrats” indeed. Nothing remotely like that occurred. Sen. Lee quite correctly and accurately stated that, if any tapes of conversations between Trump and Comey existed, they would “inevitably” be subpoenaed. He’s correct. They will. To say he “joined with Democrats” because he stated this, is akin to saying he “joined with Democrats” if he and some Democrat both commented that they had noticed it was raining outside! Get over it folks, you’re getting as bad as CNN!
The Democrats are calling for the release of the tapes. They called first. Now Mike Lee, Lindsey Graham, John McCain and the rest of the thundering herd of RINOs have JOINED the Democrats in calling for the release of tapes that may or may not exist to answer for a crime that does not exist.
Sheez, RINO supporters will twist themselves into pretzels to protect their sucky heroes.
The first thought that strikes me is that Lee and Graham just might be amongst the crooked politicians “on the take” who along with the other Dem denizens of “the swamp” are taking every opportunity to distract, deflect this administration from its government tasks, so that it never gets around to “draining the swamp” of them.
Isn’t it bad enough the Dems and Lee and Graham are being treasonously selfish putting their wants ahead of America’s citizenry:
– Obstructing via all these fake distractions and their “slow walking” approval processing the current elected administration’s efforts to properly staff itself in order that it can effectively do the work of the nation.
– obstructing the current administration’s efforts to give us badly needed tax reforms and put more of our own moneys back into our own pockets;
– obstructing all healthcare insurance replace and repair efforts while our nation’s Obamacare program is on its death bed, failing badly, grasping for its last breaths and about to leave our nation with no healthcare program at all;
– obstructing the implementation of this new administration’s illegal immigration programs whilst the scourge of illegally imported heroin and other illegal addictive opiates are decimating large swathes our nation’s youth and families in every nook and cranny all over the country, not to mention the stripping down of our protections against ever expanding invasive foreign terrorist threats.
– obstructing the practice and exercise of free speech at Universities, at Town Hall Meetings and opposition party rallies via the hiring of special event disruptors and for some events uniformed and nonuniformed violent thugs whose only purpose is shut down and prevent opposing points of view or opposing political parties’ to get their messages out to the public
And, the MSM (including but not limited to CNN, MSNBC, MSN, CBS, ABC, AP, Reuters, Yahoo, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Daily News, Advance Publications [Star Ledger, etc], in their desperate efforts to be competitive against each other, are despite how immoral, dishonest and hurtful the activities described in the previous paragraphs are aiding and abetting them.
Its long overdue for the MSM to grow a moral spine and put a stop to their hurtful anti-American activities. We have grown very, very tired of it.
– Jack McCorkell