Trump brags about his 'tapes' lie.

Posted on: June 23, 2017 at 10:39:25 CT

Two things when reading this that were odd.

“When he found out that there may be tapes out there — whether it’s governmental tapes or anything else, and who knows — I think his story may have changed,” Trump said. “You’ll have to take a look at that because then he has to tell what actually took place at the events. And my story didn’t change — my story was always a straight story, my story always was the truth."

First, the story coming out of the WH changed 5 times. Sanders, Spicer, Tweets, Rosenstein, Trump himself all produced conflating stories about why Comey was fired. To call that 'straight' is laughable.

Second:
He is bragging about the threatened tapes in order to force Comey to tell the truth. And yet, the day that Comey testified, he said "Despite so many false statements and lies [from Comey]..." Wait, so was your move brilliant because it forced Comey to tell the truth or did Comey lie, as you said?

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-brags-about-lying-on-twitter-to-influence-comeys-sworn-testimony-30a98aa1bb39

Edited by Badird at 10:49:20 on 06/23/17