Here is today’s attempt to distract from the Republican Senate health care bill …
President Donald Trump said he doesn’t have recordings of his conversations with then-FBI Director James Comey, capping weeks of speculation — started by the president himself — about whether such tapes exist.
“With all of the recently reported electronic surveillance, intercepts, unmasking and illegal leaking of information, I have no idea whether there are ‘tapes’ or recordings of my conversations with James Comey,” Trump said Thursday in a pair of statements on Twitter, “but I did not make, and do not have, any such recordings.”
Asked if Trump believes U.S. intelligence agencies are monitoring his conversations in the White House, Sanders said, “Not that I’m aware of.”
Trump raised the question of whether he was taping his Oval Office conversations when, days after firing Comey on May 9, he blasted out a series of tweets suggesting the existence of tapes as a way to try to deter the ousted FBI chief from talking to reporters.
“James Comey better hope that there are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!” Trump wrote. He concluded with a tweet calling the investigation into Russian interference in the election and his campaign’s possible involvement a “witch hunt,” asking, “when does it end?”
So, I guess we are looking at attempts to intimidate Comey…
“This raises a lot of questions about why he would suggest in the first place there were tapes, what he hoped to gain from that?” Schiff said. “And, moreover, why he kept the country guessing about this issue for weeks, and weeks and weeks.”
He said it also raises questions about “what lengths he will go to to try to intimidate people from speaking out?”
Democratic Representative Joaquin Castro of Castro, also a member of the Intelligence Committee, said the panel should proceed with plans to legally compel the White House to turn over any tapes to exist.
“We should send over a subpoena just to be sure,” Castro said in a Twitter message.
It would have been a bigger distraction if there were tapes. Let’s get back to the protests outside Mitch’s office by disabled people fearing for their healthcare.
In this Death Care Bill, there is a retroactive Capital Gains tax cut for the wealthy for 2016 and 2017.
They will get a rebate check from the treasury for overpaying their Capital Gains taxes in 2016 and 2017.
The Republican plutocrats have delivered handsomely to the oligarchs, while at the same time giving the middle finger to the poor.