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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat May 13, 2017, 08:22 AM May 2017

Trump has a long history of secretly recording calls, according to former associates

By Marc Fisher May 12 at 5:17 PM

Throughout Donald Trump’s business career, some executives who came to work for him were taken aside by colleagues and warned to assume that their discussions with the boss were being recorded.

“There was never any sense with Donald of the phone being used for private conversation,” said John O’Donnell, who was president of the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in the 1980s.

For O’Donnell and others who have had regular dealings with Trump through the years, there was something viscerally real about the threat implied by the president’s tweet Friday morning warning that fired FBI director James B. Comey “better hope that there are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!”

“Talking on the phone with Donald was a public experience,” said O’Donnell, author of a book about his former boss, “Trumped: The Inside Story of the Real Donald Trump.” “You never knew who else was listening.”

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Trump has a long history of secretly recording calls, according to former associates (Original Post) DonViejo May 2017 OP
Trying to scare a scary man madokie May 2017 #1
Here's the link without the tracking code: Stand and Fight May 2017 #2
Isn't it illegal to record someone without their knowledge? femmocrat May 2017 #3
BREAKING: Trump accuses Trump of recording self elias7 May 2017 #4
Doesn't mean trump the thug did this time.. but as Comey Cha May 2017 #5
It was also reported mercuryblues May 2017 #6
And there was this creepy story on Talking Points Memo a couple days ago: tanyev May 2017 #7

madokie

(51,076 posts)
1. Trying to scare a scary man
Sat May 13, 2017, 08:25 AM
May 2017

I don't think Comey has anything to worry about as I'm sure he deals in absolutes and whole truths

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)
3. Isn't it illegal to record someone without their knowledge?
Sat May 13, 2017, 08:48 AM
May 2017

Can you imagine the hubris of "taping" the head of the FBI? WTF?

Cha

(297,562 posts)
5. Doesn't mean trump the thug did this time.. but as Comey
Sat May 13, 2017, 08:56 AM
May 2017

is reported to have said.. "Perfect if he did" paraphrasing

tanyev

(42,601 posts)
7. And there was this creepy story on Talking Points Memo a couple days ago:
Sat May 13, 2017, 09:39 AM
May 2017
Trump Records Senate Hearings So He Can Replay And Make Fun Of Them Later

President Donald Trump replayed clips of Senate hearings for reporters in order to mock the testimony of former top administration officials, according to an interview published Thursday.

Trump on Monday during an interview with Time reacted to testimony earlier the same day by former acting Attorney General Sally Yates and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper in a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing.

“Watch them start to choke like dogs,” Trump said, as quoted by Time. “Watch what happens. They are desperate for breath.”

When Clapper hesitated, according to the report, Trump said: “Ah, he’s choking. Ah, look.”

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-tivos-senate-hearings-so-he-can-make-fun-of-them-later



What a sick, twisted f**ker.
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