The questions Keith Olbermann raises about ‘the tapes’ assume that Trump wasn’t just blowing smoke and threatening James Comey in a 3am Twitter tirade. The “tapes” threat is the sort of thing Trump often does, with no expectation of having it return to haunt him again like bad sushi. To understate,Trump takes the job of POTUS lightly – but he is in the slow process of finding that he is now playing in the ‘big league’ and he’s ‘bigly’ under-equipped. He’s in HUGE trouble, but he may not fully realize the extent yet.
The tapes – real or imagined, put Trump in an untenable position. The House Intelligence Committee gave him until this Friday to come up with them. What Would Donald Do…Can he fire the House Intelligence Committee? You’ve seen his desk, perhaps he misplaced them, or Obama’s dog came back and ate them. It’s unlikely that Trump is refusing to release the tapes which would exonerate him Will he confess to issuing an empty threat? In the worst case scenario, Trump’s crackpot legal team will be forced to prove there are no tapes, never were – and that Trump didn’t destroy them. How do you prove a negative?
Keith has a solution that is so elegantly simple, that it will put an end to all of the wondering.