This week, President Donald Trump finally admitted his bluff on the James Comey tapes. Along with the announcement, he explained why he decided to make the threat in the first place.
Apparently, Trump believes the bluff helped to steer Comey toward the path of truth in his testimony, a path that Trump believes he’d lost before the bluff. Here’s Trump on the topic:
“Well I didn’t tape him. You never know what’s happening when you see that the Obama administration and perhaps longer than that was doing all this unmasking and surveillance and you read all about it and I’ve been reading about it for the last couple of months about the seriousness of the and the horrible situation of surveillance all over the place.”
“But I didn’t tape, and I don’t have any tapes, and I didn’t tape, but when he found out that there may be tapes out there, whether its governmental tapes or anything else and who knows, I think his story may have changed.”
“You’ll have to take a look at that. Because then he’ll have to tell what actually took place at the events. And my story never changed. My story was the straight story. My story was always the truth.”
“But you’ll have to determine for yourself whether or not his story changed. He did admit that what I said was right. And, if you look further back, before he heard about that, I think maybe he wasn’t admitting that. So, you’ll have to do a little investigative reporting to determine that, but I don’t think it will be that hard.”
Despite accusing Comey of a few small lies during his testimony, Trump’s tactic seems to have worked. The White House considered Comey’s testimony a full vindication for the president, and proof that he did nothing wrong.
But the next hurdle the president may face is Robert Mueller, who the president describes as “very, very good friends with Comey. Which is very bothersome.”
Source: Zero Hedge
Smart move mr trump stand strong
One of the Basic Rules in the Art of War…Keep your Enemy/Opponent on their heels.
No Eric L Runion that was ovomit dumbass!
James Henry: Take your Meds because you are a delusional and then book a flight to find another country!
Well played
Keeps the liars scared by his great sarcasism tweets. He has good sense of humor.
Give them enough rope…!
Because comey is a crook and stupid ayup.
No it worked.
I think Comey was going to say what he said regardless of tapes.
I think it’s Trumps lame excuse fir attempting to manipulate testimony.
What is trump afraid of?