WikiLeaks announced Friday it is prepared to pay $100,000 for any tapes of conversations between President Donald Trump and former FBI Director James Comey. The message was sent out from its Twitter account just hours after Trump sent out his own tweet apparently warning Comey not to leak information to the media because of tapes he has of their meetings.
Update: U.S. lawmakers ask Trump to turn over any Comey tapes. Background on Comey's firing.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by jmorris on Tuesday May 16 2017, @11:25PM (13 children)
If Trump is smart he is using his iPhone to record conversations. As has already been firmly established, no power on Earth has the moral authority to even think about looking in one of those things, even when it is a government owned iPhone recovered from a dead terrorist, even when the rightful owner (the city government that issued the phone) gives permission and the Feds have a proper court order. Or does that absolute moral right to the privacy of an iPhone's contents vanish if it is Trump and Apple would fall over itself to hack the President's phone themselves and turn it over... not to any agency of the government, not even Congress but straight to the top, the NYT? I suspect that would be exactly what would happen if Trump tweeted he had stuff on his phone.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by requerdanos on Tuesday May 16 2017, @11:35PM (6 children)
If Trump is smart
That's as far as I got...
Is there an "If Trump is as dumb as a box of secondhand rocks" version?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday May 17 2017, @12:15AM (1 child)
That's as far as I got...
Must.....persist....
...he is using his iPhone
Nope! Two for two! [theatlantic.com]
Fuckit, I give up too.
(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Wednesday May 17 2017, @02:17AM
I used to joke about how dumb Twitter was.
Now Trump does it for me.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @05:41AM (3 children)
Talk all the shit you want, but Trump is a billionaire and you aren't.
And you never will be, you sad loser bitch.
(Score: 1) by butthurt on Wednesday May 17 2017, @10:51AM (1 child)
> [...] Trump is a billionaire [...]
How do you know?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @05:29PM
Maybe he got a peek of those tax returns.
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Wednesday May 17 2017, @11:17AM
Talk all the shit you want, but Trump is a billionaire and you aren't.
Of course, I could make money, win a sweepstakes, win a lottery--while he is as smart as he will ever be, right now.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday May 17 2017, @12:28AM (3 children)
You sound a bit triggered over something. I mean you always do, but this registers as a rather large spike on the ol' butthurt-o-meter.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @01:09AM (2 children)
I wonder how bad he got when he found out hitler had a micropenis and was a meth addict.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday May 17 2017, @02:50PM
If anything I would think he'd be glad there was historical precedent for himself :D
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday May 17 2017, @02:54PM
Probably had corrective surgery and took up the pipe. A true believer is a true believer.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @01:12AM (1 child)
Well, generally it helps when the rightful owners don't delete the copy of the data the management tools made.
At least that's how I'd go about it. Granted, making a huge deal in the press over my own incompetence, trying to strong-arm a company to go against their policies about this kind of thing and work for free, and then making a big display about the capabilities of some Israeli company... no... I still can't even.
I mean, how on earth can you support a government that can strong-arm me and force me to work simply because I manufactured a very secure device....
Folks, jmorris once again demonstrates that right-wing authoritarian followers have absolutely no capacity to feel cognitive dissonance. It's as though they just simply don't have any principles.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @03:16AM
They are ruled by their emotions, thus logic and reason are only used to justify their emotional attachments to such trainwrecks as Trump. Or he's a Russian shill, still feels like a more likely scenario since he rarely devolves into truly angry rants. Just irrational weird talking points.