I guess it wasn't the Russian photographer who put listening devices in the Oval Office after all.
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) May 12, 2017
N.B. Trump has claimed to be recording meetings before. Never actually produced evidence https://t.co/OJp3Yk3H8E
— David A. Graham (@GrahamDavidA) May 12, 2017
he probably couldn't figure out how to turn the recorder on https://t.co/DOxWJIokma
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) May 12, 2017
Back in the day, Nixon’s CREEPsters were referred to as The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight, but at least they mostly knew which end of the gun to point away from themselves…
If he had recordings and there were anything damaging to Comey on them, this is absurd. Blackmail in *secret* with the actual material. 2/
— jtlevy (@jtlevy) May 12, 2017
And in a White House with… considerable norm-violation and legal and ethical envelope-pushing (to put it conservatively) there may be 11/
— jtlevy (@jtlevy) May 12, 2017
I don't even know whether I think it's a *targeted* threat. I think it might just be a very blunt, hamfisted attempt to scare *everybody.*13
— jtlevy (@jtlevy) May 12, 2017
"Commit public witness intimidation for the sake of trying to stop WH leaks that must have *really* pissed you off this week." /15
— jtlevy (@jtlevy) May 12, 2017
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