Schiff demands Trump turn over Comey 'tapes'
Source: Politico
The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee said Friday that if President Donald Trump has tapes of his conversations with ousted FBI Director James Comey, he should turn them over to Congress.
The statement Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) came after Trump tweeted that James Comey better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press! The tweet followed a New York Times story in which sources close to Comey said Trump had asked him over dinner to pledge loyalty to the president and that Comey declined.
If the President has tapes of his conversations with Director Comey, it is because the president himself made them, Schiff said in a statement. "For a President who baselessly accused his predecessor of illegally wiretapping him, that Mr. Trump would suggest that he, himself, may have engaged in such conduct is staggering.
The president should immediately provide any such recordings to Congress or admit, once again, to have made a deliberately misleading and in this case threatening statement, Schiff added.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/12/adam-schiff-donald-trump-comey-tapes-238321
bench scientist
(1,107 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,126 posts)Yes, if the FBI Director was asked to set aside the Rule of Law
in favor of his boss, that should be known and Congress should
investigate to find out what's going on.
AwakeAtLast
(14,124 posts)SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Moostache
(9,895 posts)This needs to be synonymous with "Republican Party" for all-time.
The party of "family values" and "evangelical Christians" is not more.
They are the party of obstruction of justice, prevarication and blackmail.
They are criminal accomplices after the fact to the treason of Donald J. Trump and lackeys.
They are the inheritors of the mantle of McConnell and Ryan and they are GUILTY ... for all eternity, they are guilty of selling out their countrymen for political power and temporal gains.
When they fall, we will NOT offer them a hand to get back up, we will instead place a boot on their throat and kept them in their rightful station...in the slop and mud with the swine that they are.
magicarpet
(14,144 posts)..... the hope is they all fall into or get sucked up by the RICO trap and forced to listen to the music and jailed for their blind loyalties and un-American ways.
aquamarina
(1,865 posts)Trump is already projecting so if he says Obama wiretapped him, you know darn well he is surveilling everyone.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)PatSeg
(47,397 posts)I wonder what kind of tantrums Trump is throwing right now.
I really love Adam Schiff!
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Except for show or to get the thin skinned Trump more on edge.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Which is illegal, but this buffoon doesnt know or care.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(9,410 posts)certainot
(9,090 posts)demand it, instead of making excuses for trump
if dems stopped ignoring rw radio this would be over quickly
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)about his grabbing power, hte lack of checks and balances, his mental issues. Nothing.
The rw media is oh-so-understanding and explanatory of everything, or they don't mention an issue at all.
orangecrush
(19,522 posts)Thank you!
stonecutter357
(12,695 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)prominent figures.
BigBearJohn
(11,410 posts)Hekate
(90,642 posts)C Moon
(12,212 posts)Dorn
(523 posts).... never mind; I know:he isn't thinking.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Cha
(297,137 posts)Lines Against the trump-Russian collusion.. Thank you!
Not "politicizing" it.
Duppers
(28,118 posts)Courage, intellect, Obamaesque composure.
riversedge
(70,186 posts)Lamonte
(85 posts)Tapes can and have been erased before.