Spicer: Trump Warning Comey About 'Tapes' Is 'Not A Threat'

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo

By MATT SHUHAM Published MAY 12, 2017 2:03 PM

White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Friday denied that President Donald Trump threatened ousted FBI Director James Comey when he wrote on Twitter: “James Comey better hope that there are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!” Trump abruptly fired Comey on Tuesday.

“Did President Trump record his conversations with former FBI Director Comey?” Reuters’ Jeff Mason asked at the top of Friday’s daily press briefing.

“I assume you’re referring to the tweet,” Spicer said. “And I’ve talked to the President. The President has nothing further to add on that.”

“Why did he say that? Why did he tweet that? What should we interpret from that?” Mason asked.

“As I mentioned, the President has nothing further to add on that,” Spicer responded.

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Spicer Won’t Account For Dramatically Shifting Explanations Of Comey Firing


By ALLEGRA KIRKLAND Published MAY 12, 2017 2:44 PM

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Friday brushed off questions about the deluge of shifting, contradictory explanations the Trump administration offered this week for the abrupt firing of FBI Director James Comey, saying the decision had always rested with the President.

“Why were the American people given incorrect information that night?” Time reporter Zeke Miller asked in the daily briefing, noting that the Trump administration attributed the firing to a recommendation from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein days before President Donald Trump told NBC News he’d made the decision unilaterally.

“I don’t necessarily believe that that’s true, Zeke,” Spicer insisted. “There was a decision-making process. The President explained it in the interview process. The bottom line is that the director of the FBI serves the President. The President made a decision to replace him, as he has stated very clearly now publicly.”

Another reporter pressed Spicer to explain the “discrepancy” in the statements coming out of the White House about who prompted the decision.

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[wcmagumba]

1. The FBI director does not "serve" the presidunce...

he works for the country, under the authority of the executive but independent of the office at the same time, there is a difference...imo

[Solly Mack]

2. It's not a threat! and I wasn't hiding!

So stop saying that!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Reminds of Nixon saying "I am not a crook". . . . nt

[Stuart G]

7. Yea, I remember, "I am not a crook"......downstairs in my basement,

I got that newspaper, with that headline....and this is exactly the same....

so..............anyone who says that is not a threat, . is a liar..because.......IT IS A THREAT!!!!

Let the court's decide..not some spokesman for the person making the threat.

[Blue_Tires]

4. I know the game by now...

Next week Trump and Spicer will deny he ever made any such tweet and we'll all be so transfixed on his next outrageous piece of paranoid wingnuttery we'll forget all about it...

[bucolic_frolic]

5. If anyone

called up their local official of any variety and said "You better hope that there are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations before you start leaking to the press!" they'd be interrogated within the hour.

It's not normal to rant like that.

[WePurrsevere]

6. Umm... horsepucky. Are they so dumb that they actually believe the...

crap that they spew or are they so ethically and morally bankrupt that they don't care? (Or both?)

[gopiscrap]

8. both

[neeksgeek]

9. This is just so disheartening...

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The individual who resides in the White House, and carries the title "President of the United States," makes a public statement that any rational person would consider a threat, and then marches his mouthpiece out there in front of the same public, who denies that it was a threat.

This entire administration operates like this. Time to put them on ignore, and work to build a future that doesn't include them.

[LuckyLib]

15. "any rational person would consider a threat" -- then they walk it back. This is all nuts.

It is crazy-making. We have to all be working to end this.

[truthisfreedom]

10. "That's a nice retirement from the FBI you got goin' there, Jim."

"It would be a shame if somethin' happened to it. Know what I mean?"

[JHB]

11. So he's admitting Trump's claim of recordings was bullsit?

[Ligyron]

12. Sometimes I wish Sam Donaldson was still around.

I can hear him asking, in that loud, pentrating voice of his, "Sean, was director Comey fired because he was getting too close to the truth about the Russians and President Trump?"

[Turbineguy]

14. Watching spicey

is a trip to a different planet. One that has different laws of physics.