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Trump fu traps James Comey?
americanthinker.com ^ | James Lewis

Posted on 05/14/2017 5:46:00 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

Interesting how things come around again.

Anyway, the other day, Trump needed to know if Comey was one of the big leakers trying to destroy him. Because the NYT and WaPo and a thousand other media types have made no secret of their bloodlust when it comes to destroying one Donald Trump, duly elected president of the United States.

I'll bet that Trump, who knows how to confuse liberals with his words, said something that was almost impeachable, but not quite. But nobody is going to confess to taping it, because that would also be illegal.

So Comey snaps at the sucker bait and tells Jim Clapper (who just got fired himself as DCI) that Trump is dead meat.

The House Intelligence Committee instantly asks Comey to testify. Secretly or publicly. They don't care. They just want to see a dead body swinging in the wind.

Then Trump springs his trap, using his favorite bullhorn: his Twitter account and its several million followers.

Including all the news media, who keep a 24-hour death watch on Trump's tweets, waiting for him to break his neck in public.

So Trump tweets:

James Comey better hope that there are no "tapes" of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!
That was 5.25 am on 12 May 2017.

Snap!

Guess who got caught! James Comey, who is accusing the president of the United States of an impeachable crime without being able to prove it?

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


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To: RoosterRedux

Heard Joe Degenova say last night specific laws also allow the president to record his conversations.


21 posted on 05/14/2017 9:04:26 AM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: Kozy

Excellent take on it. I heard some whiney talking head complaining that Trump sent the letter to the wrong place because Comey was in his office. I just chuckled. Trump did exactly as you said and meant it.


22 posted on 05/14/2017 9:08:20 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: RoosterRedux

“”The comments below the article touch on and even explain some of them. “”

I can’t get any of the comments at the end of the article to come in...maybe it would have helped. If some have tried to explain what’s missing in the article then I feel vindicated in my criticism of a poorly written article.


23 posted on 05/14/2017 9:10:14 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: RoosterRedux

The taping wouldn’t be illegal—DC is a one-party consent state, which means just one of the parties needs to consent for the taping.

Jeesh!


24 posted on 05/14/2017 9:11:53 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: gov_bean_ counter
Assuming that Trump made the tapes (if they exist) is an improper assumption.

I believe in DC you only need one party consent. So if Trump did tape the conversations with Comey, they are legal.

25 posted on 05/14/2017 9:13:47 AM PDT by Go Gordon (Barack McGreevey Obama)
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To: DaveA37

“Will the political “BS” ever end so Trump can get on with being the POTUS?”

You’re under this weird illusion that once the elections are over the loser goes home and lets the winner do its thing.

All that an election does is determine which side has the ball. The other side will try to stop the side with the ball using every means at its disposal.


26 posted on 05/14/2017 9:40:57 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: RoosterRedux
Here's what might have happened...
  1. Comey is the one who recorded Trump at their dinner. He and Clapper were going to use the tape to get Trump.
  2. Trump suspects that Comey taped him.
  3. Trump fires Comey while he is in California, away from his office.
  4. Before Comey can get back to his office, Trump's people get the tapes out of Comey's office (or wherever he had them).
  5. So Trump tweets:

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

  6. Thus, Comey learns that Trump is in possession of his tapes.
Just MHO...
27 posted on 05/14/2017 9:46:20 AM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Game over, man, game over!" (my advice to DemocRATs and Vichy Republicans))
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To: DaveA37
Will the political “BS” ever end so Trump can get on with being the POTUS?

Yes, in 2024. Why? Were you expecting the enemy to give up sooner?

28 posted on 05/14/2017 9:47:41 AM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Game over, man, game over!" (my advice to DemocRATs and Vichy Republicans))
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To: AndyJackson

“Just saying that he will order the Marines up from Quantico to invest DC, imprison the scoundrels and restore law and order is not an impeachable offense. He would actually have to complete this highly patriotic and desirable act.”

Thanks for posting this reality.

If Trump said that he would bring in the Marines and brought in the 101st Airborne Division like Ike did, What would happen then?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_National_Guard_and_the_integration_of_Central_High_School#President_Eisenhower_federalizes_the_Guard


29 posted on 05/14/2017 9:54:04 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (100+ days without Hilliarly/Huma as POTUS! Thanks, President Trump for this great reality!)
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To: RoosterRedux
Then Trump springs his trap, using his favorite bullhorn: his Twitter account and its several million followers.

I don't mess with Twitter, but I did "follow" President Trump there about a month ago. The number of followers then was 24.1 mil. As of today, the count is up to 29.3 mil.

30 posted on 05/14/2017 10:06:53 AM PDT by Oatka
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To: Thank You Rush

Add to that that a taping by either party would have been legal...


31 posted on 05/14/2017 10:29:59 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Thank You Rush

A lot of the comments also say it was a poorly written, cryptic article too. A lot of them questioning the writer saying Comey ever “pardoned” Bill Clinton, and in 2002?


32 posted on 05/14/2017 10:34:15 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle

“”A lot of them questioning the writer saying Comey ever “pardoned” Bill Clinton, and in 2002?””

I don’t know why I couldn’t get the comments but my computer doesn’t much like American Thinker and I sure don’t like this writer. I forgot the “Comey pardon” of Bill Clinton - that was definitely one of the ridiculous statements. Unreal that the guy was so “out of it”...he should find another occupation!


33 posted on 05/14/2017 12:23:21 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Yaelle; Thank You Rush; ridesthemiles
This is what the writer was talking about. As usual, Comey was "Johnny-On-The-Spot" for the felonious Clinton mob:

Comey was also deputy special counsel to the Senate Whitewater Committee - which of course dindunuttin to the felonious Clintons.

As we know, Free Republic got its start with the Whitewater crimes.

Amazing - turning over that particular stinking rock and finding Jimmy "Thugboy" Comey staring out from under it...

34 posted on 05/14/2017 7:45:12 PM PDT by kiryandil (Americ)
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To: aquila48

“All that an election does is determine which side has the ball...”.

Running one of the largest governments in the world is no
“game”. Unfortunately too many people today are so set on disrupting law and order to get things THEIR way, they have lost all sense of decency and direction. May God help all of us if this man made chaos does not end.


35 posted on 05/15/2017 4:28:12 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: RoosterRedux

Trump fu? Is that some kind of play on “kung fu” or just a typo?


36 posted on 05/15/2017 4:30:26 AM PDT by Godebert (CRUZ: Born in a foreign land to a foreign father.)
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