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By Marc Fisher May 12 at 5:17 PM
Throughout Donald Trumps 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 ODonnell, who was president of the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in the 1980s.
For ODonnell and others who have had regular dealings with Trump through the years, there was something viscerally real about the threat implied by the presidents 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 ODonnell, 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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madokie
(51,076 posts)I don't think Comey has anything to worry about as I'm sure he deals in absolutes and whole truths
Stand and Fight
(7,480 posts)femmocrat
(28,394 posts)Can you imagine the hubris of "taping" the head of the FBI? WTF?
elias7
(4,026 posts)Cha
(297,562 posts)is reported to have said.. "Perfect if he did" paraphrasing
mercuryblues
(14,537 posts)during the campaign that he would listen in on guest and employee phone calls at Mara-go-loco.
http://boingboing.net/2016/06/30/trump-spied-on-mar-a-lago-gues.html
tanyev
(42,601 posts)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, hes 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.