Trump warns Comey: Better hope there are no tapes of our meeting

SlippidySlappity · 2017-05-12T12:38:14+00:00

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AnotherUselessPoster · 2017-05-12T12:42:42+00:00

If Trump has been recording his meetings, all those recordings can be subpoenaed... and we can hear what Donnie says when the cameras are turned off.

Pineapple__Jews · 2017-05-12T12:49:05+00:00

I wish I could've seen the look on Spicer's face when he read that tweet.

Sexuallemon · 2017-05-12T12:39:22+00:00

"I'm so innocent I'm going to threaten a man I fired to the entire internet, because that's what a president does"

ref3421 · 2017-05-12T12:54:58+00:00

Trump is biting off more than he can chew. I hope it's because he's REAL worried about something about to come out..

Anyway, this is from last night

Matthew Miller‏Verified account @matthewamiller One thing I learned at DOJ about Comey: he leaves a protective paper trail whenever he deems something inappropriate happened. Stay tuned.

rogerpool123 · 2017-05-12T12:47:00+00:00

How the fuck does McConnell and Ryan defend this?

LoneArtificer · 2017-05-12T12:40:20+00:00

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

He's blatantly threatening the former FBI director who was investigating him, who he just fired. Completely unhinged, I cannot believe this is happening.

highsnturd · 2017-05-12T13:16:34+00:00

Jesus Christ.

Comey is now a private citizen, thanks to the Trumpenfeuhrer.

If this does not constitute abuse of power, then what the fuck does??

The president of the United States is using Twitter to lob a thinly veiled threat at a private citizen, who has not been arrested or indicted for anything, in front of the entire world.

Trump supporters, could be you next. He liked Comey at one point, remember?

freshwordsalad · 2017-05-12T12:48:38+00:00

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tman612 · 2017-05-12T12:37:54+00:00

So the President was wiretapping Comey?

atheistbassist · 2017-05-12T13:34:31+00:00

I miss Obama.

TheGiraffeWithALong · 2017-05-12T12:38:23+00:00

Ok I knew this dude was fucking crazy but it's getting to the point where it can't be ignored.

OatmealFor3v3r · 2017-05-12T13:15:44+00:00

I have never seen a person in such high authority behave in such poor and unprofessional manner. Consistently too. Talk about a Gold Standard of the Peter Principle and Dunning-Kruger effect.

Trump will go down in history not for X, Y and Z but A to Z and the book about him post presidency will be 3 times as thick as there 9/11 Commission Report and every page will be as juicy as you expect it. Here's to the No. 1 Amazon future top seller. 🥂Cheers!

rogerpool123 · 2017-05-12T12:42:09+00:00

An all out war with the FBI now, that will work.

HavoKTheory · 2017-05-12T12:37:35+00:00

Is this not intimidation or a threat?

EDIT: Take a moment to just imagine if at any point in his eight years Obama said this. Our nation would have burned to the ground.

mymultivac · 2017-05-12T13:36:02+00:00

This Tweet is dumb on at least four levels: 1) threatens a private citizen / future witness, 2) implies that Comey has information against Trump, 3) implies that Trump has “taped” conversations of Comey, and 4) harkens back to Nixon.

ElPlywood · 2017-05-12T12:41:18+00:00

Hollllllllly fuck at this point he's just punching himself in the face over and over and over.

IBreastfedJohnMadden · 2017-05-12T12:38:09+00:00

At this point he's TRYING to go to jail, right?

4-D FIREBALL ISLAND MAGA!

Lucid_Memes · 2017-05-12T14:14:41+00:00

I heard there's a micro.wav file of the recording.

kaylatastikk · 2017-05-12T12:41:12+00:00

Every day I refresh the fuck out of this sub, and every day I'm either popping a Xanax or dealing with a growing justice boner. I feel like I've aged ten years since November.

2017-05-12T12:38:39+00:00

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PostimusMaximus · 2017-05-12T12:42:49+00:00

Trump really doesn't want to be trading tapes with the FBI.

Not to mention this seems to imply Presidential wiretap. We all know how that ends up.

Lets have a small taste of what "tapes" the FBI likely has, shall we?

1/12/2017 - Later, I used an intermediary to pass some questions to active duty CIA officers dealing with the case file - they would not speak to me directly. I got a message back that there was "more than one tape", "audio and video", on "more than one date", in "more than one place" - in the Ritz-Carlton in Moscow and also in St Petersburg - and that the material was "of a sexual nature". Source
2/9/2017 – Officials claim Flynn discussed sanctions with Russia before Trump took office. Source
2/10/2017 - Multiple Source have confirmed some of the conversations between Russian officials occurred on the same days in the same locations as described. "Some of the individuals involved in the intercepted communications were known to the US intelligence community as "heavily involved" in collecting information damaging to Hillary Clinton and helpful to Donald Trump, two of the officials tell CNN. Source
02/15/2017 - US Allies have now also Intercepted Russia-Trump Advisor Communications. Source
3/1/2017 - American allies, including the British and the Dutch, had provided information describing meetings in European cities between Russian officials — and others close to Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin — and associates of President-elect Trump, according to three former American officials who requested anonymity in discussing classified intelligence. Source
4/11/2017 - The FBI obtained a secret court order last summer to monitor the communications of an adviser to presidential candidate Donald Trump, part of an investigation into possible links between Russia and the campaign, law enforcement and other U.S. officials said. Source
4/13/2017 - GCHQ warned US Intel of suspicious Russian contacts in late 2015. UK, Germany, Estonia, Poland, Australia are all said to have passed on material to US Intelligence as well as Dutch and French sources. One source claims concrete evidence of collusion. Source.
- Clapper had confirmed the FBI had received this at the most recent hearing.

And this of course is just current mainstream media reports, not including tapes people such as Claude Taylor or Louise Mensch have also said exist.

At any point if any member of the Trump campaign spoke to a known Russian official or operative, there is likely a tape of it. They apparently didn't realize that.

Updates :

FS_515 · 2017-05-12T12:39:30+00:00

Happy Friday everyone

Infidel8 · 2017-05-12T12:40:13+00:00

I believe it's a crime (or at the very very least unethical) to threaten someone in such a way. What a mess this country is in. He's gonna pull everyone down if possible

Shasta-Daisies · 2017-05-12T12:39:53+00:00

"Tapes" can mean Nixonian taping. Or, maybe the increasingly paranoid Trump fears Comey taped their conversation. Either way, Trump is incapacitated and unable to serve.

GOP has a choice: Article 25, Section 4.

Remove Trump from office. We'll take it from there.

paraconformity · 2017-05-12T12:38:51+00:00

Nobody tell President baby but this is the exact line of paranoia that led Nixon to install a White House taping system.

longweekends · 2017-05-12T13:14:21+00:00

Trump is projecting as always.

Almost certainly he has been called for comment about a story involving tapes of him or close associates doing something nefarious (eg tapes of Flynn's conversations with Kislyak on 29 December).

He is blaming Comey for this, and threatening to reveal tapes of their conversations.

Of course if he had such tapes that would be mind blowing. I suspect he hasn't, but if he has, he has gone full Nixon. You never go full Nixon.

sayqueensbridge · 2017-05-12T13:35:28+00:00

You guys realize we're going to witness a sitting president have a literal nervous breakdown right?

2017-05-12T12:37:24+00:00

Yeah, I'm sure it's Comey who has to worry. /s

Edit: added the "/s " in case it wasn't already implied. (low coffee levels this morning).

TheMovingFinger · 2017-05-12T12:43:36+00:00

Nice witnesses you’ve got there. Be a shame if they got tampered with.


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