It’s a game of Chess, and Trump is playing like a Master.
I hope there are no tapes. All I can think about here are the “secret white house tapes” from the Nixon years. I do not want any comparison to that era. This is a much more contrived attack on the president and if we go down that path, along with the wrangling over what is going to released, we will end up with a special prosecutor, a grand jury, and a loss of the white house in 2020 as the media piles onto NOTHING but makes it look like we have Nero running the government.
Look at it this way, how many of the GOP in the senate are coming to his aid: Grasley, maybe that guy Kennedy from La.
and even Cruz. Not counting the dems whom we know are devils incarnate, we can add McPain, Linda Graham, Collins and a few others to the dems side. McConnell at best is a wash albeit he is the majority leader. The rest of the GOP is mostly silent.