{"id":22544,"date":"2017-06-22T18:51:05","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T18:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22544"},"modified":"2017-06-22T18:51:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T18:51:05","slug":"no-wh-tapes-well-who-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22544","title":{"rendered":"No WH tapes? Well, who knew?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Donald J. Trump campaigned for president claiming he wasn&#8217;t a &#8220;politician.&#8221; However, he&#8217;s developed the art of the standard politician&#8217;s dodge.<\/p>\n<p>He implies something, then takes it back and then suggests someone else might be responsible for what he referred to in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>The president today tweeted a statement that said he did not tape any conversations with former FBI Director James Comey just prior to firing him. That settles it, yes?<\/p>\n<p>I guess so.<\/p>\n<p>Except that now he suggests that a third party might have taped conversations he and Comey allegedly had about whether the FBI is investigating the Trump campaign over that infamous &#8220;Russia thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This past month, Trump tweeted something that stated Comey &#8220;had better hope&#8221; no one had recorded the meetings. The implication seemed clear: Trump might have done so himself. Today he said he didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Then he added this morsel via Twitter:\u00a0\u201cWith all of the recently reported electronic surveillance, intercepts, unmasking and illegal leaking of information, I have no idea whether there are \u2018tapes\u2019 or recordings of my conversations with James Comey,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Good ever-lovin&#8217; grief, man. He is the president of the United States of America. He has at his disposal every possible resource to know with absolute certainty who could have done such a thing within the confines of the White House, if not the bleeping <em>Oval Office<\/em> itself.<\/p>\n<p>This clown continues to play games with the system and, most of all, with the people he purports to represent as their president.<\/p>\n<p>Read The Hill&#8217;s report of the president&#8217;s disclosure\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/338991-trump-i-didnt-record-comey-conversations\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald J. Trump campaigned for president claiming he wasn&#8217;t a &#8220;politician.&#8221; However, he&#8217;s developed the art of the standard politician&#8217;s dodge. He implies something, then takes it back and then suggests someone else might be responsible for what he referred to in the first place. The president today tweeted a statement that said he did &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22544\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No WH tapes? 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