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kentuck

(111,097 posts)
Wed Aug 15, 2018, 08:50 AM Aug 2018

"Lordy, Lordy, I hope there are tapes."

Well, there are tapes.

And they are coming from the most unlikely source - from Trump's old reality show.

Omarosa Manigault Newman has turned the White House and the West Wing upside down with her latest revelations. Obvious panic can be seen on the faces of everyone that may have spoken to Omarosa, at one time or another.

The White House is suing her. They can lie their way around almost any circumstances that may arise except one. They cannot lie their way around "tapes". People can be made to believe almost anything so long as they don't hear the exact opposite on a taped recording.

We should not under-estimate the value of these tapes. They show that the emperor has no clothes. Trump cannot say, "Who are you going to believe - me or your lying ears?"

If there are other tapes, and Omarosa says there are, then it could turn into a huge bombshell, in my opinion. Whether or not they can be used in a court of law, they are still evidence.

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