Lordy

A smart man would learn after his “I got tapes” bluff doesn’t work with a writer, that it won’t work with the director of the FBI. Donald Trump is not a smart man.

In a deposition several years ago, Trump was asked about telling people he was taping them when he wasn’t. He kinda sorta came clean with “I might have said that.”

Now Trump has come clean that he did not tape his conversations with former FBI director James Comey, though he speculated that maybe someone else may have taped them, perhaps from bugging. The guy really has a hard time admitting when he’s wrong (which is constantly). Bad thing is, this time he knew he was wrong. And what’s with the paranoia that he’s constantly being bugged? Is Trump going to spend the next four years in a perpetual state of whining and acting like a victimized baby?

Trump let the lie hang for 41 days that he may have taped Comey. His sycophants point out that Trump said Comey better “hope” there aren’t any tapes. Technically, that’s not a lie, but when you let it hang for 41 days, ignore the question when the press asks you repeatedly, and you send your staff out to defend the dumb-ass tweet, you turn it into a lie.

Trump’s staffers and lawyers tell us to ignore his tweets, but take him at his word as the president of the United States of America. So is he not president when he’s tweeting? Are we supposed to accept that he’s a 70-year-old toddler that isn’t old enough yet to have his own cell phone? It brings us back to litigating the election by asking again: “How did a man too stupid to be president become president?” That in itself is worthy of an investigation.

But he is the president and when he took the oath to become president he swore to defend our nation from all attacks, foreign and domestic. How can he defend us when he refuses to acknowledge an attack?

Trump and his supporters love to say there’s no evidence of a collusion between himself and/or his campaign with Russia, or obstruction of justice. If that’s the case, then why does he keep lying and making shit up?

Trump’s lawyers have to be relieved that the tapes don’t exist. I mean, yeah, Trump shot his credibility down even further, but at least he didn’t create even more evidence that he’s attempting to manipulate an investigation.

I can’t decide if the funniest part of all this is that after making the tape claim, Trump and his people act all bewildered that anyone wants to talk about it. It’s like his birther claim. He peddles it for five years and then he doesn’t want to talk about it, and he definitely never acknowledges he was wrong or just making shit up.

It’s also knee-slapping hilarious that Trump’s tape tweet is what got the Special Counsel in business. That’s some seriously stupid-ass bluffing right there. This guy is seriously leading our nation and toting around the nuclear football? Oh, that’s funny in a terrifying way. I can’t wait to watch Trump defenders explain this as either a lie or a seriously stupid, moronic bluff. It has to be one of the two, if not both. It’s both.

Or maybe the funniest part is that the day Trump admits the tape claim was a lie, he starts questioning Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s integrity. Seriously. He’s doing that with Comey and now he’s pulling it on Mueller (perhaps so when he fires Mueller he can say that he didn’t trust him).

But let’s question Mueller and Comey’s integrity. I mean they did lie about Obama’s birthplace, planted the lie that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, that millions of illegal votes were cast for Hillary Clinton, that Trump has the largest electoral victory in modern history, or that the clouds parted and the rain stopped during Trump’s inauguration speech. Oh, wait. Those were Trump lies.

Here’s the thing: Trump has lied again, and again, and again, and again, etc. He’s even lied about the freaking weather. And guess what.

We have it all on tape.

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