White House tapes ruse

By Aaron Blake
June 24 at 7:30 AM

... Asked whether his strategy was smart, Trump said, “It wasn't very stupid; I can tell you that” ...

.. “If the president had no tapes, why did he suggest otherwise? Did he seek to mislead the public? Was he trying to intimidate or silence James Comey?” <Rep. Adam B. > Schiff asked. “And if so, did he take other steps to discourage potential witnesses from speaking out?” ...

“If Gingrich’s analysis of what was going on here is accurate and were to be accepted by a finder-of-fact, then this could definitely raise additional obstruction of justice concerns for Trump,” said Peter Zeidenberg, a former longtime Justice Department prosecutor.

Another longtime former Justice Department lawyer, American University law school professor William Yeomans, said, “I certainly think Trump's tape bluff contributes to the large, accumulating pile of circumstantial evidence that he intended to impede the Russia investigation” ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/06/24/could-trumps-comey-tapes-ruse-actually-get-him-in-legal-trouble/?utm_term=.a81641e562bf