Donald Trump was interviewed about Thursday’s tweet, issued at prime distract-from-horrible-Senate-healthcare-bill time, saying that he never had any recordings of his conversations with James Comey. In this interview, Trump issues a declaration of just how smart him be.
As with most Trump explanations, this one first needs to be translated into English.
Trump: Well I didn’t tape him. Uh. You never know what’s happening when you see that the Obama administration, and perhaps longer than that, was doing all this unmasking and, uh, surveillance, and you read all about it—and I’ve been reading all about it for the last couple of months. About the seriousness of the … And horrible situation with the surveillance all over the place. And you’ve been hearing the word ‘unmasking’ — a word you probably never heard before. So you don’t know what’s out there.
Translation: I worry that Barack Obama is under my desk.
Trump: But I didn’t tape, and I don’t have any tape. And I didn’t tape.
Translation: I totally taped him.
Trump then goes on to say that he thinks Comey may have changed his story. This prompts an assist from his chirpy Fox & Friends of Donald Trump interviewer who praises Trump for pretending to have tapes. Sorry, “Tapes.”
Fox: It was a smart way to make sure he stayed honest in those hearings!
Trump: Well … uh. It wasn’t … uh. It wasn’t very stupid, I can tell you that.
That’s right. Donald Trump trapped James Comey into being honest … by lying. Him not stupid!