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originally posted by: smurfy
originally posted by: Charlyboy
President Donald Trump issued a thinly veiled threat Friday to fired FBI Director James Comey.
"James Comey better hope that there are no 'tapes' of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press," the President tweeted.
The tweet marks an extraordinary development in the ongoing feud between Trump and the agencies investigating alleged ties between his campaign and Russia.
Trump threatens Comey in new tweet
I wonder what rump is talking about? What conversations??
What is he talking about or is this another Trump attention grab to divert away from Russia?
What are your thoughts?
Trump continues to talk out of his ass, obviously then it's a load of shiite, which in turn puts him in even more shiite.
Another example is what he said in the TV interview, one minute he wants the FBI to get to the bottom of the Russian thing, ten minutes later he then says it's all rubbish!
Okay Comey has now gone, but Trump hasn't put the wind up the FBI, since they did the raid on the Strategic Campaign Group who not only has ties to Stone, Black, Manafort and more, obvious Russian ties there, but maybe money laundering ties...perhaps a distinct Russian source there too, as Russian oligarchs have money spread all over the globe....the two headed gorgon perhaps?
Like James Comey would lie.
James Comey lied under oath, will congress do something?
This is, of course, being characterized as an exaggeration, but saying under oath that “hundreds and thousands’ emails were involved when in reality there might have been dozens is like a cop exaggerating a cell phone into a gun and using it as an excuse to shoot a black kid.
originally posted by: shooterbrody
a reply to: windword
Unless you are speaking for comey you are full of crap.
Now you know trumps mind as well, as you know his intent?
bs
your partisan opinion
no more no less
"James Comey better hope that there are no 'tapes' of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press," the President tweeted.
If it was a message send or a warning, taunting whatever in Trumps tweet it was for Comey to take the message, all we can do is to speculate, make conspiracies and do divinations
originally posted by: windword
originally posted by: butcherguy
originally posted by: windword
originally posted by: butcherguy
originally posted by: windword
originally posted by: butcherguy
originally posted by: windword
a reply to: butcherguy
There is no threat in the tweet.
Yes there is, a very veiled, mobster style threat. And, there's an accusation that he's illegally leaking falsehoods to the press.
"James Comey better hope that there are no 'tapes' of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press,"
Could you zero in on the specific words that constitute a threat pleae?
"Better hope" are the operative words in Trump's veiled threat.
That does not constitute a threat.
Yes it does.
No it doesn't.
Legal definition
From your link:
A threat has been defined to be any menace of such a nature and extent as to unsettle the mind of the person on whom it operates, and to take away from his acts that free, voluntary action which alone constitutes consent.
That's exactly what Trump's unsettling and menacing tweet represents. It's a clear case of "Witness Intimidation"
You act as though I have no right to decipher words on a public Twitter feed!
You act as though words like "threat" and "intimidation" can't be used unless you have permission from the victim.
That's not reality and the jury of public opinion is as valid and as consequential as any court appointed jury. Ask OJ!
Trump's tweet was seen as a threat by a great number of Twitter readers.
originally posted by: Sillyolme
a reply to: network dude
Oh like last summer?