Trump Corner: Trump Admits his Claims of Taping Comey Were Bullshit

Donald Trump made a cryptic tweet that he may have taped conversations with James Comey before Comey testified to Congress.  In an interview last week, he admitted there were no tapes.

Which isn’t a shock.  Nobody thought there were tapes.  The fact he’s been dragging this shit out for weeks is an embarrassment.  Especially when you consider how often he uses the term fake news, you would think even his own supporters might cry foul when he creates it.

Instead, however, there is laughter from the right as they joke about how Trump was able to make everyone talk about secret white house tapes for a little while and, therefore, ignore the fact that Trump may well have attempted to obstruct justice.  Ha ha ha!

The claim of taping Comey was, in itself, an attempt to obstruct justice by drawing focus away from what he was saying and suggesting there might be proof he was lying.  By even suggesting such a thing, Trump undermined anything Comey would say.

There’s a bigger problem here as the Trumpbot response to his tweets about Morning Joe co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski exhibits.

Trump supporters respond to all of this by saying “ha ha – he played you!”

In all fairness, if Andy Dwyer was saying this shit, we’d think it was adorable.

Maybe he did.  Then again, maybe he’s just a fucking asshole who can’t handle the fact that not everybody loves him because some of us think fucking assholes shouldn’t be fucking President.

But let’s assume he is “just” trolling the left.  I don’t understand why that makes people happy.  It’s like saying “well as long as he only makes fun of the half of America that isn’t me, I’m cool with it.”

Oh those poor liberal snowflakes can’t take a joke!  Unlike those hardy conservatives who are completely capable of taking a joke, right?  Give me a fucking break.  They have an entire news network devoted to the fact they can’t take a joke.

And Trump isn’t framing this stuff as jokes.  He’s framing it as a childish defense of his brand. He’s making personal attacks and he means them.

Decent people don’t treat each other this way.  I don’t care if he’s playing the left or if he’s just an asshole incapable of keeping his mouth shut.  Either way, he’s just an asshole.

And every person who defends his asshole behavior or claims that his behavior is, somehow, OK because he is just giving liberals their comeuppance for wanting government to help the poor and marginalized communities (fuck us) is just as much of an asshole.  Conservatives are not assholes for being conservative.

But Trump is an asshole.  And anyone who defends his behavior as “just sticking it to the left” is also an asshole.

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