Oh and
"I'll tell you about that sometime in the very near future." @realDonaldTrump on whether there are tapes of his convos w/ Comey— David M. Drucker (@DavidMDrucker) June 9, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 June 2017 19:18 (six years ago) link
Allegedly he committed to Article 5 too. Timing!
What in the world
"I didn't say that...and there'd be nothing wrong if I did say that" says Trump of Comey claim he pushed for end of Flynn probe— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) June 9, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 June 2017 19:19 (six years ago) link
"Great, we got him to not tweet yesterday."
"Now he just needs to not say anything in public today!"
*later*
"OH GOD."
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 June 2017 19:20 (six years ago) link
well then, so he definitely said it
― nomar, Friday, 9 June 2017 19:21 (six years ago) link
someone needs to read Comey's exact quotes back to Trump and ask if he said those words (I'm assuming this didn't happen today, wasn't watching). it just seems to easy to ask something like "Did you ask Comey to lay off the Flynn investigation?" or "Did you ask him to pledge loyalty?" and then have Trump weasel out by saying he was just expressing a wish to have the investigation dropped or that his intention was to have Comey pledge loyalty to the country or some such bullshit.
― evol j, Friday, 9 June 2017 19:28 (six years ago) link
is there a place to read a transcript of the press conference that just concluded? google turning up nothing
― Treeship, Friday, 9 June 2017 19:30 (six years ago) link
well I guess Jon Karl did more or less quote the bit about letting the Flynn thing go and Trump claimed he never said that, though Karl did bungle the second bit by accidentally asking if Comey asked for a pledge of loyalty from Trump (though I'm sure Trump didn't hear it that way)
― evol j, Friday, 9 June 2017 19:35 (six years ago) link
oh cool
Republicans searching for consensus on how to pay for tax cuts are beginning to weigh attacking spending in potentially sensitive areas of the budget.
Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch told Bloomberg he prefers to find spending cuts to pay for a tax overhaul, though he stopped short of guaranteeing any outcome.
“That’s what should be the solution, I’ll put it that way,” Hatch, a Utah Republican, said Thursday. “And I’m hopeful that the Republicans will work to do that. I’d like to find some spending cuts. We’re spending us into oblivion."
GOP leaders have not moved off their calls for revenue-neutral tax legislation -- that is, a bill that balances tax cuts with other provisions that would raise revenue. Still, a growing number of Republican lawmakers is calling for abandoning that concept.
Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, a leader of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus, called for $400 billion in unspecified cuts to welfare programs to help cover the cost of tax cuts. That’s “the way to unlock the logjam in the House” on setting tax and spending levels in a budget resolution, Jordan said Friday at an event sponsored by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative policy and advocacy group. Drawing up a budget resolution is a procedural prerequisite for Congress to tackle a tax overhaul.
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-06-09/key-republicans-eye-spending-cuts-to-help-pay-for-tax-overhaul
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 June 2017 19:37 (six years ago) link
it's been an Infrastructure Week to remember, that's for sure
― mookieproof, Friday, 9 June 2017 19:38 (six years ago) link
Omg Romanian president just called out Trump for lying— Ishaan Tharoor (@ishaantharoor) June 9, 2017
Trump said there was no discussion of visa waivers... Romanian counterpart looks at him, says there was https://t.co/am4vbT5xLT— Ishaan Tharoor (@ishaantharoor) June 9, 2017
Lying might be the charitable explanation.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 June 2017 19:42 (six years ago) link
Cannot wait for the release of the Comey Tapes
Trump: Jim, hi, come in and sit down.Trump, in a high-pitched and annoying voice: Oh, hi, Mr. President. You are looking great today, bigly. It makes me look very, very much like a loser, which I am. It's true.
― Sir Isaac Gluten (Old Lunch), Friday, 9 June 2017 19:45 (six years ago) link
Oh BTW
Romney reveals in Park City that HILLARY encouraged him to consider Sec State job— Alex Isenstadt (@politicoalex) June 9, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 June 2017 19:48 (six years ago) link
Trump: Jim, hi, come in and sit down. Gosh you're so big, so strong
― Οὖτις, Friday, 9 June 2017 19:54 (six years ago) link
Whoops!
Poll: View of the American Health Care Act. pic.twitter.com/CZqCGrJfsE— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 9, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 June 2017 19:57 (six years ago) link
yeah. surprisingly even republicans seem to know what's up with this issue. it would be catastrophically dumb for the republicans to proceed further.
― Treeship, Friday, 9 June 2017 19:59 (six years ago) link
Trump says he would "100 percent" be willing to dispute Comey's testimony under oath.
The obvious conclusion is that Trump knows (or perhaps assumes) there are no tapes of these conversations. One only has to look for motives. Comey had zero motive to fabricate this stuff, but Trump has every motive to deny the truth of what Comey said.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 9 June 2017 20:01 (six years ago) link
maybe he knows he's backed into a corner and is just trying to stall. keep the party rolling as long as possible.
― Treeship, Friday, 9 June 2017 20:04 (six years ago) link
Trump will 100% testify. After America is great again. And after his taxes are released. And after his lawyers say it's ok. And after he's dead.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 June 2017 20:05 (six years ago) link
it would be catastrophically dumb for the republicans to proceed further.
gee WILL THEY?????
― Οὖτις, Friday, 9 June 2017 20:06 (six years ago) link
yeah was gonna say I'd be stunned if this is anything more than bluster
― frogbs, Friday, 9 June 2017 20:07 (six years ago) link
Trump testifying, that is. ACHA is gonna plow ahead full stream obv
Comey's motive is that he's a SHOWBOAT
― Οὖτις, Friday, 9 June 2017 20:07 (six years ago) link
talking to Mueller /= "testifying" in the sense that Comey just did
― Οὖτις, Friday, 9 June 2017 20:08 (six years ago) link
A. He's bluffingB. He's lied under oath in depos REPEATEDLY, but this ain't some NYC real estate kerfuffle.— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 9, 2017
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 9 June 2017 20:08 (six years ago) link
but yeah it's just bluster, he isn't going to do that
― Οὖτις, Friday, 9 June 2017 20:09 (six years ago) link
yeah I feel like the President of the United States lying repeatedly lying under oath might even shake the GOP a little
― frogbs, Friday, 9 June 2017 20:12 (six years ago) link
he's basically guaranteed to have to testify to mueller at some point right?
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 9 June 2017 20:12 (six years ago) link
just remembering when Hillary sat there for hours under oath
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 9 June 2017 20:13 (six years ago) link
trump testifying under oath would be the biggest TV event ever, i mean you'll never have seen such huge ratings
― nomar, Friday, 9 June 2017 20:17 (six years ago) link
this is true
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Friday, 9 June 2017 20:18 (six years ago) link
Bluff called
House Intel to White House — hand over Trump's Comey tapes if they exist pic.twitter.com/EsjgcFg9qO— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) June 9, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 June 2017 20:20 (six years ago) link
Trump hasn't been a Washington DC politician, so he doesn't grasp that the coverup always ends up putting you in worse trouble than the original infraction. You might be able to spin the infraction to limit the political damage, but when you lie repeatedly and keep on lying and they are proved by the facts to be sheer bald-faced lies, you're dead meat.
Because how many Republican members of Congress are going to step up and tell the media and their constituents, "Hell, for all I care, he can do whatever shit he wants to and then lie his head off, as long as he signs this big tax cut for my millionaire contributors. Shoot, I'd do the same stuff if I thought I could get away with it."
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 9 June 2017 20:20 (six years ago) link
uh, all of them?
― sleeve, Friday, 9 June 2017 20:21 (six years ago) link
I think that's what Ryan is blinking in Morse code.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 June 2017 20:21 (six years ago) link
None of 'em will say it on camera, even if all of 'em think it.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 9 June 2017 20:22 (six years ago) link
You might be able to spin the infraction to limit the political damage, but when you lie repeatedly and keep on lying and they are proved by the facts to be sheer bald-faced lies, you're dead meat.
And when you're caught on tape bragging about sexual assault, your days as a politician are over.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 9 June 2017 20:23 (six years ago) link
sleeve otm
― Οὖτις, Friday, 9 June 2017 20:26 (six years ago) link
Trump isn't gonna hand over shit to the House Intel committee and there's nothing they can do about it
Also of note
Senate Judiciary calls on Comey's friend to provide any memos Comey shared with him pic.twitter.com/RFesVcS0tH— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) June 9, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 June 2017 20:27 (six years ago) link
you're right, they will say this is all "very concerning" and maybe "inappropriate" and they will "get to the bottom of it" and then will do the exact opposite
― Οὖτις, Friday, 9 June 2017 20:29 (six years ago) link
Mo Brooks of Alabama loves appearing on Chris Hayes to flaunt his affection for killing sick people.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 June 2017 20:30 (six years ago) link
i desperately hope there are tapes, because everything i've learned about trump would suggest that what would scan to him, even on review, as a completely normal and appropriate conversation would strike anyone else as being very much the opposite (cf his "locker room talk"). and since he seems to be able to run roughshod over his own counsel, we might be treated to the spectacle of trump proudly and boastfully incriminating himself under oath and on television
wishful thinking to assume that the republicans would find their conscience or that the dems would capitalize but dare to dream
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Friday, 9 June 2017 20:40 (six years ago) link
If there's one thing Trump knows, it's television ratings. Sorry, Arnold.
― Evan, Friday, 9 June 2017 20:43 (six years ago) link
If the tapes exist (they don't) literally the only thing that would account for them not making an appearance so far is that they're being doctored/fabricated. And then Trump could feign shock - OMG, if these tapes are fake, what else could be fake? - and everyone would look at him like he's an idiot.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 June 2017 20:44 (six years ago) link
The New York attorney general, which has been investigating the Donald J. Trump Foundation for months, is now looking into the Eric Trump Foundation, after a report in Forbes exposed practices that seem to violate state laws.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 June 2017 20:46 (six years ago) link
GOP/right-wing media is already making the argument that asking Comey to stop the investigation and then firing him is not a crime. FBI director reports to the President, and the President can do whatever he wants.
I'm not sure the courts agree, but this is their angle and they are pushing it aggressively and it will be used as cover to GOP Congress.
also yeah come on guys this is the 21st century/digital era, there are no "tapes"
― Οὖτις, Friday, 9 June 2017 20:46 (six years ago) link
I know it's wrong but would get even more feelings of joy if ET ended up behind bars than if his old man did.
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 9 June 2017 20:48 (six years ago) link
mp3s
― Treeship, Friday, 9 June 2017 20:48 (six years ago) link
Field recordings mixed by Avey Tare.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 June 2017 20:51 (six years ago) link