President Donald Trump revealed Thursday that he never had any tapes of his conversations with fired FBI Director James Comey.
…whether there are “tapes” or recordings of my conversations with James Comey, but I did not make, and do not have, any such recordings.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 22, 2017
Naturally, liberals exploded. But Trump explained to Fox & Friends’ Ainsley Earhardt Friday morning that he purposefully misled Comey in order to keep him accountable during his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Watch below:
Trump tells Fox that James Comey’s story “may have changed” after hearing their may be tapes, says, “my story was always a straight story” pic.twitter.com/QWsUYJxpzO
— JessicaSimeone (@JessicaSimeone) June 23, 2017
While it’s frankly quite hilarious that Trump got one over on Comey, couldn’t this spell legal trouble for the president? The answer is “no.” As renowned lawyer and constitutional scholar Alan Dershowitz explains, Trump employed the same tactic as prosecutors everywhere:
Prosecutors frequently bluff about the quality and quantity of the evidence they have against a defendant in order to get him to plead guilty or to become a cooperating witness.
What President Trump did was no different from what prosecutors, defense attorneys, policemen, FBI agents and others do every day in an effort to elicit truthful testimony from mendacious witnesses. But in today’s hyper-partisan climate, those out to get President Trump will concoct “crimes” out of the most innocent behavior. This really illustrates how far things have gone in partisan efforts to criminalize political differences.
Got him!
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