Schiff demands Trump turn over Comey 'tapes'

[Mrs. Overall]

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. this really is becoming a scary theater of the absurd . Trump's a madman.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Schiff is gold

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]

27. Yes he is

[SunSeeker]

3. K & R

[Moostache]

4. It is time to start tatooing this to every GOP congresscritter.

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]

26. Other Republicans are treasonous co-conspirators....

..... 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]

5. Cannot K&R this enough.

Trump is already projecting so if he says Obama wiretapped him, you know darn well he is surveilling everyone.

[Alice11111]

12. True...if he accusses another, he is doing it.

[PatSeg]

6. I wonder how they can keep a straight face

I wonder what kind of tantrums Trump is throwing right now.

I really love Adam Schiff!

[Honeycombe8]

7. They need to send a subpoena. Otherwise, they're just asking politely, and that doesn't mean much.

Except for show or to get the thin skinned Trump more on edge.

[Alice11111]

14. Agree...just giving him a heads up to get rid of evidence.

Which is illegal, but this buffoon doesnt know or care.

[Honeycombe8]

21. Apparently the WH can do anything it wants & not be held accountable. nt

[Alice11111]

23. It's baffling.

[NoMoreRepugs]

28. A testament to the"liberal press" I would guess??

[certainot]

30. a dem pres wouldn't have a chance - 1000 screaming radio stations would

demand it, instead of making excuses for trump

if dems stopped ignoring rw radio this would be over quickly

[Honeycombe8]

31. Yes! I can't believe he's getting away with all this trash. Nothing has been done

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]

8. K&R

Thank you!

[stonecutter357]

9. K&R!

[zentrum]

10. Warren-Schiff 2020 nt

[Amaryllis]

11. Or Yates-Schiff.

[zentrum]

13. Interesting. nt

[Amaryllis]

15. Or Schiff/Yates. Swalwell looking pretty good too, but Schiff and Yates are getting to be very

prominent figures.

[BigBearJohn]

16. Message deleted by DU the Administrators

[Hekate]

17. Would love to see the Oval Office "tapes" made by Lavroff

[C Moon]

18. It's all about the tapes again.

[Dorn]

19. This is like "Bizarro Watergate" -- what the heck is DT thinking ?

.... never mind; I know:he isn't thinking.

[Scurrilous]

20. This takes me back...

[Cha]

22. A Democratic Rep Fighting on the Front

Lines Against the trump-Russian collusion.. Thank you!

Not "politicizing" it.

[Duppers]

24. Schiff for President.

Courage, intellect, Obamaesque composure.

[riversedge]

25. Trump is nothing but a school yard bully!!

[Lamonte]

29. Tapes?

Tapes can and have been erased before.