President Trump may be the only one who truly knows if he has “tapes” of his conversations with former FBI Director James Comey – but if he does, it’s more of a congressional problem than a legal one.
The president raised the possibility of secret tapes in a tweet Friday. Amid a slew of media leaks about Comey’s controversial firing, Trump warned that Comey “better hope that there are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!”
James Comey better hope that there are no "tapes" of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, 2017
But if Trump did in fact surreptitiously record his talks with Comey, the act wouldn’t violate Washington, D.C., law or federal law. Both permit “one-party consent” recording, that is, recordings made when only one party to the conversation okays it – which in this hypothetical case would be Trump.
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Like Judge Napolitano stated, Trump has every right to tape conversations in the White House. I think it is a smart idea to tape his conversations, so some of these clown politicians cannot misquote Trump!
Given how even the so-called “Republicans” are betraying him, stabbing in the back and generally trying to impede his every effort to “drain the swamp”, I’d say it’s MORE than a “smart idea”, backpacker. It is a practical NECESSITY to protect himself from being misquoted and LIED about by these career politicians, LYING Commucrats and OTHER VERMIN that infest the D.C. SWAMP.
And imo he should do it OPENLY.. And ensure his tapes are secured to where no one else can access them and ‘leak’ them out..
I have no issues with this. Based on all the FAKE NEWS and LIES being thrown at President Trump … I too would tape to protect the truth and facts. Little hard to deny or skirt when a tape clearly shows the FACTS.
.. Jj …
But just like that truth based org did to planned parenthood, in revealing to the world their evil hearts, the left will just ATTACK those who did the taping and leaking, NOT defend what was IN those tapes..
C’mon people, connect the dots! As paranoid and obsessed with spying on EVERYBODY as that nasty little sociopath, OBAMA is, do you REALLY doubt that he already HAD a vast system in place to tape ALL calls coming in and going out of the White House?
I interpreted his remark as an attempt to put Comey on notice that if he runs out and starts telling a bunch of LIES to the media, there may be recorded evidence to PROVE that he is lying. Not that there IS, mind you, but there COULD BE.
But if there IS a “taping” system in place, I ‘d be willing to BET it was put there by none OTHER than Barrack INSANE Obama.
[But if there IS a “taping” system in place, I ‘d be willing to BET it was put there by none OTHER than Barrack INSANE Obama.]
With as many leaks are coming from within the white house, i sure as hell can believe obozo bugged the damn place..
There has been a system for over 48 years.
I do not believe that even a blink of an eye is not recorded today, let alone sound.
By the way, Comey is NOW claiming that President Trump asked him to stop investigating Mike Flynn. Just think about that for a minute–do you HONESTLY BELIEVE that President Trump–who says he NEVER trusted this guy, and why WOULD he?–would make such a potentially politically troubling (for HIM) request of Comey?
This is DEFLECTION, pure and simple, because Warner and Schiff rushed out last night and made TOTAL A $ s ES of themselves bloviating about President Trump’s alleged “exposing classified information” to the Russians “proves” he’s not fit to be President. After the Israelis came out today and announced that it was THEIR intelligence and they had NO problem with it being shared with the Russians in this instance, all of a sudden, Warner and Schiff are refusing to comment to reporters, telling them, “Well, we need to wait until we can talk to people who were actually IN the meeting to determine what was said before we comment.” Really? That sure didn’t stop them from running their mouths and making WILD, UNFOUNDED ACCUSATIONS LAST NIGHT, did it!
And magically, this mysterious “memo” by James Comey surfaces, JUST IN TIME to take attention off THAT story by accusing President Trump of asking Comey to end the investigation into Michael Flynn’s involvement with Russians. If that’s not DEFLECTION, I’m the Queen of England. These LIARS are just trying to obscure their OWN misbehavior and public a$ s hattery in a SMOKESCREEN of BOGUS ACCUSATIONS.
And since anyone can ‘juggy up’ a Memo back dated/timed to when Trump visited him, how do we know he HAD that back then, and didn’t just make it up now?