http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2017/06/23/professor-dershowitz-on-trumps-bluff/
... The latest is (laughing) Trump's two tweets yesterday about the taping that may or may not have happened of Comey except that he, Trump, didn't do it, and the left is having a fit here because they think Trump is behaving irresponsibly.
They think what's guiding Trump on these two tweets is Trump still thinks he's being surveilled. Trump went out there and said Obama was "tapping the wires" at Trump Tower. So he thinks it's going on and he went out there, and his two tweets make it clear he's not recording, but he can't say for sure that somebody else isn't. He can't say for sure there aren't tapes of his conversations with Comey, only that he didn't make 'em. So the left is going nuts thinking that Trump is provoking them - and he may be.
I think Trump is toying with them and having fun with 'em. But what has happened here, if you look at the timeline, is it is entirely possible that Trump bluffed Comey. What did Trump want that Comey had? Comey had told Trump thrice (three times, for those of you in Rio Linda) that he was not a suspect. Three times. Trump wanted Comey to go public with it! Comey had told members of Congress that all the way back on March 30th. He had told members of Congress, he had told the media practically from the beginning of March all the way through the last congressional testimony last month of Comey.
Professor Dershowitz has written about it. He said, "Now that President Trump has tweeted that he didn't tape James Comey, the anti-Trump zealots are accusing him of witness intimidation." Professor Dershowitz says, "This is most the absurd of the many absurd charges leveled against Trump by those out to get him without regard to the law. Trump's bluff was calculated to get Comey to tell the truth. How can that be witness intimidation? ...
... Dershowitz says that all Trump has done here is bluff Comey into releasing news that Trump wanted Comey to release. You know, they're treating this ... remember when the Democrats and the media were acting all frustrated over the remaining 30,000 Hillary emails?
She gave the State Department and law enforcement 30,000, but there were 60,000. So 30,000 were on her server that she said were of no relevance. They were about Chelsea's wedding and yoga lessons and fast chefs and whatever else. So she held on to those, and then one day they were gone; she didn't know where they were. So everybody's having a cow over it, so Trump at one of his ... it might have been an appearance or at a press conference. He made an appeal to the Russians. "Hey, maybe the Russians can find the emails," 'cause the Democrats have been going overboard. The Russians are doing everything.
So Trump rams it back down their faces. "Hey, maybe the Russians can find those emails! I make a direct appeal to Russia to find Hillary's emails and turn them over to the media." Well, that was all it took. The media thought that Trump was now encouraging the Russians to hack Hillary's computer system. They cannot spot a joke when they're told. So it's the same situation. Trump was joking, and now he's bluffing Comey. Comey fell for it and official Washington is acting like a major crime has occurred in the process.
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